title: Hitler and Bormann identifications compared by postmortem craniofacial and dental characteristics.
abstract: After Stalin told President Truman at Potsdam, July 17, 1945, that Hitler got away, a secret U.S. mission was designated to establish anthropological skull projections pertinent to a potential recovery of Hitler's remains, i.e., by experimentally eliminating the "flesh." Then, conversely, in 1972, when one of the two skulls unearthed next to the Lehrter Railroad station in West Berlin (where Hitler's physician and Bormann had last been seen alive on May 2, 1945), an attempt was made to put facial flesh back on the skull with a view to reconstruct the original facial physiognomy of Martin Bormann. All things considered, it will be documented that the only convincing forensic evidence of Hitler's and Bormann's deaths proved to be the dental data.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001604:Berlin; D003817:Dentition / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005145:Face / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D005197:Famous Persons; D005553:Forensic Dentistry / Q000266:history* / Q000379:methods; D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000266:history* / Q000379:methods; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D012886:Skull / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging