Gustav Weler

Gustav Weler was a doppelgänger of Adolf Hitler. He occasionally stood in for Hitler and was used as a political decoy for security reasons.[1][2]

Historian Ada Petrova posited in 1995 that footage of a dead Hitler double she discovered in the Russian state archives was of Weler. Based on this, she theorized that Weler had been killed outside the Reich Chancellery with a gunshot to the head during the Battle of Berlin and subsequently filmed by Red Army troops holding a photograph of Hitler.[3] However, an unnamed servant claimed that this body belonged to a cook who was killed because of his resemblance to Hitler, while the latter supposedly escaped.[4] Further, W. Hugh Thomas wrote in 1995 that Weler was found alive after the war and that Allied troops had interviewed him following the fall of Berlin.[5]

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References
  1. The Houston Chronicle September 17, 1992.
  2. Petrova & Watson 1995.
  3. Petrova & Watson 1995, pp. 52, 90.
  4. Mitchell, Arthur (2007). Hitler's Mountain: The Führer, Obersalzberg and the American Occupation of Berchtesgaden. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. p. 57. ISBN 978-0-7864-2458-0.
  5. Thomas, W. Hugh, Doppelgängers: The Truth about the Bodies in the Berlin Bunker, 1995.

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