The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
A 1939 book claiming Hitler died in 1938 and was replaced by doubles, published anonymously as a purported insider account. Its author was never identified.
- Original byline
- Anonymous
- Published
- 1939
- Form
- Other works
- Authorship
- Still unknown
- Reason for anonymity
- Unrecorded
- Copyright
- Undetermined
- Reference
- Wikipedia · Wikidata
The authorship story
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler appeared in New York in 1939, presenting itself as the confession of a man intimately placed in Nazi Germany who knew that the real Hitler had died in 1938 and that look-alikes now performed the role. Published on the eve of war, it traded exactly on its anonymity: an insider who could not be named telling what could not be checked. No author has ever been identified in the documented record. The book survives as a curiosity of propaganda-era publishing and a reminder that anonymity can manufacture authority as easily as protect it.
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