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November 11, 2020

The Nazis Loved Conspiracy Theories, and Conspiracy Theorists Love Them

In an increasingly secular age, Hitler attracts attention as an icon of evil.

From 2015 to 2018, a series aired on the history channel investigating various claims that Adolf Hitler faked his death and escaped to Latin America after World War II. Such outlandish theories calling the death of the German dictator into question have proliferated since the event itself, and, if anything, have grown more widespread. They are among the subjects treated by Richard Evans in his new book The Hitler Conspiracies, as Robert Philpot writes:

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