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I admit it is a neat idea that Hitler escaped the bunker and lived out his life in South America. Could it have happened? Sure. Other Nazis did the same. But I choose to believe the evidence that everyone has seen for years in that he killed himself in the bunker, and his body was subsequently burned and the Russians then exhumed his remains from the shallow grave and have some of his bones back in Moscow.
Right. And that evidence is better than is sometimes realized, because we only get bits and pieces of it described. But a few books that have put out the range of documentation have appeared and I have spent some time collating them.
Jickyjack1 also touched on another crucial point -- Hitler's psychological make-up pretty much rules out any escape along these lines. The suicide of Goebbels is the real follow-up proof. Hitler was everything to him. It tends to confirm Hitler's own death. There really is not much reason to doubt that Hitler committed suicide on April 30 in the circumstances that have come down to us. The only real question is how much of the finding of remains story may have been "padded". Remains were definitely found, but there is room for challenge on specifics.
The one to wonder about, who absolutely did have a "vacate the scene" mentality, was Martin Bormann. Its true remains identified as his were found where they should have been in 1972 near the Lehter railway station, but for those with stuff-of-a-novel mindsets, its plausible enough to see how that would not disprove that he had originally escaped.
