Adolf Hitler had died more deaths in one week than any man in history

Adolf Hitler strolls through the Bavarian countryside in the vicinity of his Berchtesgaden retreat, February, 1935.

Adolf Hitler had died more deaths in one week than any man in
history.

Said the Hamburg radio: Hitler died "at his command post in the
Reich Chancellery, fighting the Russians to the last."

Said Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte, who had it from Heinrich
Himmler on April 24: "Hitler had a cerebral hemorrhage, might already
be dead."

Said Dr. Hans Fritzsche, captured Goebbels deputy: "Hitler had
committed suicide."

Said the Tokyo radio: "Hitler was killed by an exploding shell as
he walked down the steps of his Berlin Chancellery."

Said the Paris-Presse: "After a quarrel with Hitler over the
continuation of the war, other Nazi leaders blew him to bits by a bomb
placed in his underground fortress in the Tiergarten on April 21."

Said the London Daily Express: "Hitler is on his way to Japan in a
U-boat".

Said United Press war correspondent Edward W. Beattie Jr.,
liberated last week after eight months in Nazi captivity: "Germans
believe that Hitler was killed in last year's bomb plot."

Soviet soldiers dug deep into the rubble of the Reich Chancellery
for Hitler's corpse. They did not find it. Dr. Fritzsche explained to
them: "The body has been hidden in a place impossible to find."

But Russia was determined to find Hitler, dead or alive. Said
Pravda: "Whether he escaped to hell, to the devil's paws, or to the
arms of fascist protectors, still he is no more. We shall find out
what really happened to him. And if he escaped, we shall find him, no
matter where he is."

(May 14, 1945: "The may deaths of Adolf Hitler", TIME)

Adolf Hitler looks through the bars of his cell at Landberg Prison, Germany where he was a political prisoner in 1924.

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