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] Ada Petrova posited in 1995 that Weler was killed outside the Reich Chancellery with a gunshot wound to the head during the Battle of Berlin and filmed by Red Army troops holding a photograph of Adolf Hitler.[3] However, Hugh Thomas reported in 1995 that Weler was found alive after the war and that Allied troops had interviewed him following the fall of Berlin.[4]

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References
  1. The Houston Chronicle September 17, 1992.
  2. Petrova & Watson 1995.
  3. Petrova & Watson 1995, pp. 52, 90.
  4. Thomas, W. Hugh, Doppelgänger: The Truth About the Bodies in the Berlin Bunker, 1995.

Sources
  • Petrova, Ada; Watson, Peter (1995). The Death of Hitler: The Full Story with New Evidence from Secret Russian Archives. W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-03914-6.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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