re: April 30, 1945 - The Death of Adolf Hitler

Your viewpoint is not as crazy as it might seem at first glance.

In 1914, the world was still deeply embracing many 19th century ideas and values. In the 19th century and before, armies of large nations did occasionally march through neutral countries to get to a battlefield in a third country. Example: Napoleon's 1805 army marching during the Austerlitz campaign.

You also intuitively already know another very important but simple reason why France's Army performed poorly in 1940. The reason is as simple as this: training, doctrine and readiness.

Think of your time in US Army armored battalions. Your training was superb. You trained up to fit into an excellent doctrine of warfighting. To top it off, your armored battalions were always at a very high level of readiness, comparatively speaking (compared to France's armored units in 1940).

German battalions gained valuable combat experience in Poland. Their training and doctrine was already superior to France's military units, even before the war.

Training, Doctrine and Readiness are very important reasons why France's armies performed poorly in the operational realm in 1940. Not enough emphasis on this point is placed in our discussions of this campaign IMHO.

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I find Hitler's persona fascinating. How did he compel so many people to commit genocide.

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The same way Americans and Europeans have been compelled to accept lie-after-lie from their trusted Statist Overlords Inc (while accepting repeated injections of NEVER-TESTED "safe & effective" experimental Franken-Jabs):

PROGRAMMING. GUILT. PRUSSIAN-EDUCATION SYSTEM OBEDIENCE (to even Psychopathic "Leaders")

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The Russians wanted him just as bad as the Jews.

They were certain the remains found outside the bunker were his and Braun's.

Good enough for me.

I've read his secretary's book, along with plenty of other WWII history, and the likelihood of anything other than Hitler putting a bullet in his head is laughable.

His health alone would have made any escape difficult to impossible. He was a feeble shell of himself at that point.

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All of this.

The suggestion that Hitler escaped to Argentina came directly from Stalin. Russian newspapers then pushed alleged sightings of him in other western nations. Even Eisenhower bought it briefly.

The Soviets knew he was dead, and chose to play political games by claiming otherwise.