I found the book by KGB officer Lev Bezymenski's on Hitler's death fascinating. Involved in both the hunt for the body and the autopsy the whole impression he gives is of enormous pressure from the very highest level (Stalin) for a conclusive result. However this pressure, and the interference in the original autopsy report, seems to have done more to add to the confusion. People ran around clutching at straws and falling out in their fear of displeasing Stalin to such an extent that nothing from that whole disturbed period, exacerbated by the chaos in Berlin, seems entirely reliable. All this confusion at the time seems to have left plenty of cracks for the conspiracists to work their way into and weave the elaborate stories of escape that circulate around AH's corpse.
Later, and perhaps better, books have led to a more coherent and detailed account of events but there's somehow a more interesting and contemprary
flavour about Bezymenski's book.
There's also the factor that the continued survival of the Nazi Superman is just the kind of story that extreme right groups can use in building their mythologies.
This didn't exactly help with the confusion either:
From:
Celebrity Morgue.
