voices, waking at night with convulsive shrieks, and pointing in terror at an empty corner of the room while shouting, "There, there, in the corner!"
According to most modern researchers, Rauschning's book was a fraud. Hänel, a Swiss scholar who studied the book in detail, notes that:
- Rauschning's claim to have met with Hitler "more than a hundred times" was a lie, since the two actually met only four times, and never alone;
- Certain words which he attributed to Hitler were simply inspired from many different sources, including the writings of Ernst Jünger, Nietzsche, and the French writer Guy de Maupassant in his short novel Le Horla.
M. Emery Reves, the publisher of the original French edition of Hitler Speaks, claimed that he commissioned the book from Rauschning in 1939 for 125,000 francs in advance, and they agreed on the fabricated stories about Hitler to be written in that book.
Hermann Rauschning (1887 – 1982)
Nowadays no serious historian quotes Rauschning's book anymore. This is particularly the case of Hitler's best academic biography writer Ian Kershaw, who said, "I have on no single occasion cited Hermann Rauschning's Hitler Speaks, a work now regarded to have so little authenticity that it is best to disregard it altogether."
Hitler’s Death
Nazism is at the origin of many modern myths, because it contains many of the necessary ingredients for them to arise. First of all, when the Russians finally reached Hitler's bunker ... it was empty. The very person that had been identified as the Devil on Earth had disappeared at the last moment, giving birth to many survival theories, to the point that even the FBI and the KGB kept investigating the matter for many years far after the war was over. The FBI closed the case of his death in 1956, though, after many interrogations in the USA and in South America, not neglecting the weirdest trails, whereas the KGB always remained suspicious especially because Stalin was unwilling to acknowledge that his nemesis had committed suicide in the Berlin bunker.
Being quite paranoiac, Stalin ordered his secret police, the NKVD, precursor to the KGB, to study every last vestige of the private life of the only opponent whom he considered “great enough” to be his match; he therefore asked them to write a one-copy book for his eyes only. This book was recently found by German researchers in Moscow and later translated into English under the title The Hitler Book: The Secret Dossier Prepared for Stalin from the Interrogations of Hitler's Personal Aides, 2005, by Henrik Eberle.
Many other books have Hitler fleeing to South America and dying there very old, sometimes well after 110 years. The last book, written by the well-known Jerome R. Corsi, a longtime addict of conspiracy theories, claims in his last work, Hunting Hitler, that Hitler was helped by none less than the CIA to flee to Argentina in exchange for valuable technological knowledge.
According to Brazilian Simoni Renee Guerreiro Dias’s own investigations in her recent book Hitler in Brazil – His Life and His Death, he escaped to her country and not Argentina, where he lived with his black lover until the age of 95. The main proof is a very blurry color picture, allegedly taken in the ‘70s, of Hitler flirting with his Negro mistress “in order not to attract attention” by any racist behavior.
The story of Hitler’s and Eva’s remains has long been traced by the Soviets, who had a political agenda of their own, and not admitted this evidence to the West, pretending on the contrary that the Führer was being shielded by the former Western allies.
A special Soviet elite intelligence unit, the SMERSH (literally in Russian: "The Death") found on May 2, 1945, Hitler’s, Eva’s and two dogs’ remains in a crater close to the bunker. By May 11, 1945, the SMERSH had already confirmed that the dental remains were Hitler’s without a doubt, thanks to his personal dentist’s assistant whom