I used to be a big fan of the Hitler escaped myth, and used to want to believe it, but after seeing this evidence I've finally been able to accept the fact that he did die in the bunker. I saw this on a documentary on the History channel, basically when the USSR collasped and the archives opened, they discovered the jaw and Skull fragments and matched the teeth with real X-rays of Hitler's teeth and they were a match. Hitler had dental work done about a year before, massive dental work that would be very easy to identify.
It's time to let it go, Hitler died in the bunker, accept it.

A FORMER KGB lieutenant general has described how Hitler's bones were secretly burnt in a night-time operation a quarter of a century after the Nazi dictator died. The remains were then tipped into the sewerage system in Magdeburg, a city then in East Germany.

The revelation was made last week by Sergi Kondrashev, who spent two periods as head of Soviet counter-intelligence in East Berlin at the height of the cold war.

His account ends half a century of speculation and conspiracy theories that Hitler took advantage of the chaos at the end of the second war war to escape to Argentina.

Kondrashev is one of the few former Soviet intelligence officers familiar with the details of what happened shortly before midnight on April 4, 1970, to the remains of Hitler, his wife Eva Braun, and Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister, his wife and six children, who also died in Hitler's bunker in Berlin.

Operation Archive was ordered by Yuri Andropov, then chairman of the KGB and later general secretary of the Soviet Communist party.

"The remains were all burnt in secret at night," Kondrashev said last week, breaking his silence after almost three decades. "Then the ashes were dumped in the city sewerage system through a manhole. That's where they ended up."

The remains had lain until then beneath concrete on the grounds of a Soviet military camp off Klausenerstrasse in Magdeburg, 70 miles west of Berlin, their exact location known only to a small circle of Soviet leaders. They had been transported there in 1946, less than a year after their discovery by a Soviet military advance party in the yard of Hitler's bunker, buried in a shallow grave in a large bomb crater.

"The bodies had been half burnt," recalled Kondrashev, who was a personal friend of some of the officers who carried out the first tests on the remains. "They were placed in separate cases and transported to a secret location in Berlin. A report was sent immediately to Joseph Stalin, who gave orders to determine beyond doubt that Hitler's corpse was among those discovered. After we concluded that the remains did belong to Hitler, they were taken to Magdeburg and buried."

They lay beneath the city for 24 years, as speculation about their whereabouts raged in the west. But in 1970, when the Russians thought they would have to hand over the military camp to the East Germans, Kondrashev, who was completing his second posting as KGB head in Berlin, reminded Andropov of their existence.

In a move personally approved by Leonid Brezhnev, then the Soviet leader, Andropov gave the order to dig up the remains and destroy them for fear that they would one day be discovered and the site turned into a shrine to Hitler.

The KGB first secured the area around the Magdeburg camp to guard against curious neighbours. A small tent was erected over the grave and five officers dug through the night, first with pickaxes, then with shovels. They found five cases containing the remains of ten bodies. After counting the leg bones to ensure that no body was missing, they loaded the cases onto a lorry and drove them to a nearby training camp, where they were burnt.

Skull fragments, including his jawbone, are all that remain of Hitler. They were sent in secret to Moscow in 1945, together with parts of a blood soaked leather couch on which the Führer is believed to have died. Blood from the couch matched Hitler's blood type and the skull was painstakingly reconstructed except for a missing cheekbone and other fragments destroyed when his corpse was doused in petrol and set alight by an aide. After months of research, based mainly on the dictator's teeth, the Russians concluded the remains were indeed Hitler's.

"We concluded that first Hitler took an ampoule of poison and then shot himself," said Kondrashev. "He was then burnt and buried, first by the Nazis and then by the Russians."

The skull is still in the hands of the FSB, the KGB's successor organization, and is believed to be held in an archive on the outskirts of Moscow. According to the latest reports, it is stored in a small cardboard box originally used for ball-point pen refills.

Mark Franchetti / The Sunday Times (UK) : 31st October 1999.