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Steven White

How Hitler’s four remaining teeth revealed the evil dictator’s cause of death

When Adolf Hitler died on April 30, 1945 it brought an end to the most notorious dictator of the 20th century.

The evil Nazi leader oversaw the murder of millions of Jews in the Holocaust and caused carnage across the globe by igniting World War II that lasted for six years.

His death inside a Berlin bunker has been open to rumours ever since, though, with some people believing that he did not die and instead escaped to the likes of South America or Antarctica as Allied Russian forces closed in him.

However, research published in the 'European Journal of Internal Medicine' in May, 2018 has stamped out any wild conspiracy theories and confirmed exactly how he died after looking at the dictator's teeth.

Hitler died in a double suicide alongside his wife Eva Braun (Bettmann Archive)
Researchers studied Hitler's teeth to determine his cause of death (Popperfoto/Getty Images)

Lead study author Philippe Charlier told AFP : “The teeth are authentic, there is no possible doubt.”

“We can stop all the conspiracy theories about Hitler.

"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.”

In 2018 it was revealed how a Russian interpreter had kept and crossed-checked a set of Hitler's teeth in 1945 with his dental records.

The research team were given access to the teeth as well as skull fragments for examination, confirming the Nazi shot himself.

The evil 20th century dictator was responsible for millions of deaths in the Holocaust (Bettmann Archive)

The skull had a charred hole on its left side, which was consistent with a bullet wound.

A match was found between Hitler's previous dental X-rays and descriptions by his dentist at the time.

It was common knowledge that the dictator was in poor health at the time of his death and only had four teeth left, which had tartar deposits on them, and plenty of metal in his jaw.

Claims of Hitler's veganism were also supported as no traces of meat were found in his gnashers.

Hitler and his new wife Eva Braun were found slumped together after their double suicide and both reportedly swallowed cyanide pills as well as using a gun.

Traces of blue also were discovered on Hitler's false teeth, which suggested that he could have taken the poison - although this theory remains unconfirmed.

After killing himself the evil dictator's body, along with Eva's, was allegedly burned outside the bunker in a shell crater.

The remains were said to be unearthed and thoroughly cremated in 1970 and thrown in the Biederitz River on the orders of the KGB to stop the burial site turning into a potential memorial for fascists.

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