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Bunker skull not Adolf Hitler's September 29, 2009 Article from: The Australian LONDON: DNA tests have shown that a fragment of bone believed to have been from the skull of Adolf Hitler was from a woman, reports said yesterday. The find, made by US archeologist Nick Bellantoni, who tested the fragment that had been held at the Russian State Archive in Moscow, casts doubt on the supposed suicide death of the Fuhrer in his Berlin bunker in 1945, UK newspaper The Sun said yesterday. For decades, it was thought Hitler had taken a cyanide pill and shot himself in the head as the Russian army closed in on Berlin. His body was later dug up from near the destroyed bunker and the KGB in 1970 burnt the remains, apart from a jawbone and the skull fragment. Dr Bellantoni, who was given access to the piece of bone for just an hour, says that not only did it come from a woman, but it was also from someone much younger than Hitler, who was 56 when he died. He said: "The bone seemed very thin - male bone tends to be more robust. It corresponds to a woman between the ages of 20 and 40," The Sun reported. "The sutures where the skull plates come together seemed to correspond to someone under 40," The Guardian quoted Dr Bellantoni as saying. Hitler's bride Eva Braun, who also took cyanide, was 33. But Dr Bellantoni said: "There is no report of her having shot herself or having been shot afterwards. It could be anyone's." DNA analyses performed on the bone have been processed at the genetics lab of the University of Connecticut. The results, broadcast in the US by a History Channel documentary, Hitler's Escape, astonished scientists. ++++ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
