Hitler reportedly did die in the Berlin bunker in 1945

PanARMENIAN.Net - A new forensic study of remains jealously guarded by Russian intelligence for seven decades has determined with certainty what historians have always assumed – with World War II irredeemably lost by Germany, Adolf Hitler did in fact kill himself at his Berlin bunker on April 30, 1945, NPR.org says.

However, the history books have not satisfied everyone: alternative notions have abounded in the tabloid press and even in some mainstream publications – most involving the Führer's escape from Germany at the end of the war.

A team of French pathologists publishing in the peer-reviewed European Journal of Internal Medicine, were recently allowed to study a set of teeth kept in Moscow since the end of the war.

The remains had been taken from the Führerbunker by Soviet soldiers who uncovered the site where Hitler and his small entourage of loyalists spent their final days. It was there that SS soldiers set fire to the remains of Hitler and those of his long-time mistress-turned-wife, Eva Braun.

It was the first time that researchers outside of Russia were allowed access to the teeth, which are held by Russia's intelligence service, the FSB.

The researchers explain that Hitler had notoriously bad teeth and by the time he died, at age 56, only a few of his own still remained. According to Deutsche Welle, "The teeth matched descriptions provided by Hitler's dentist and revealed no trace of meat — consistent with the fact that the Führer was vegetarian."

The teeth were also readily identifiable because of "conspicuous and unusual prostheses and bridgework" described by Hitler's personal dentist, Hugo Blaschke and his assistant, Kathe Heusermann, according to DW.

"The teeth are authentic — there is no possible doubt," lead pathologist Philippe Charlier was quoted by Agence France-Press as saying. "Our study proves that Hitler died in 1945."

"We can stop all the conspiracy theories about Hitler," lead pathologist Philippe Charlier was quoted by Agence France Press as saying. "He did not flee to Argentina in a submarine; he is not in a hidden base in Antarctica or on the dark side of the moon."