Is there any validity to the story that the tested remains of the two bodies found in Führerbunker did not belong to Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun?

by Rica_Patin

I've heard many times before that the bodies found in Führerbunker were not the bodies of Adolf and Eva, and that the body that was supposedly Hitlers was actually the body of a woman under 40 (not Eva). Is this accurate? If not, how did this story come to be?

Is there also any validity to the theory that Russians found Hitler and took him prisoner and claimed a suicide?

MarshalOfNewZealand

Whilst the final answer to both questions would probably lie deep in the archives of the Russian FSB.

For the second to be true, it would have required a conspiracy on a massive level by the Nazi eyewitnesses to Hitler's suicide (there are accounts of those who witnessed Hitler plan, and execute his suicide, as well as those who burnt his body). Not to mention the Soviet accounts which concur to this. Therefore, the conspiracy theory can be considered extremely unlikely.