Hitler's skull? It's female...

[Jan Klimkowski]

I am sorry I do not recall the dentist's name and cannot easily retrieve the article. I sent it to Mae Brussell and it appears that it may have been noted in the Boston Globe as well. I might be able to find the reference in her tape outlines with some work. Here are some confirmations below and the clear implication that one had to trust Blaschke for any identification of the remains. He was also the dentist for Bormann and Goering and may have played a similar role in allowing Bormann to escape - John Judge

A clue from one website commntary:
Hitler’s dentist, [Blaschke] who reportedly said in the 1980’s while living in America that “we switched the dental records” of some poor schlub in the German Army (this last detail was according to a Boston Globe article cited by Radio show host Mae Brussel).

John - a hearty welcome to DPF.

I share your provisional judgement above.

From one of your links:

In December, 1972, during construction near the Lehrter Station (near to where Bormann's diary had been found in a discarded leather jacket in 1945, and close to the spot where Axmann said he had seen Bormann's body in the moonlight of that fatal night) two skeletons were unearthed.

After extensive forensic examination, using the dental records of Bormann's dentist (Prof. Hugo Blaschke, who was also Hitler's dentist) the shorter of the two skeletons was identified as that of Martin Bormann, and West German authorities officially declared him dead. The forensic identification was validated by Dr. Reidar F. Sognnaes, a celebrated U.S. expert in such matters. (Reidar F. Sognnaes, "Dental Evidence in the Postmortem Identification of Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun and Martin Bormann", in Legal Medicine Annual, 1976.)

This new evidence caused Roper to write in the 1978 edition of The Last Days of Hitler that "...in view of new evidence which has recently been found, I believe that it [the question of Bormann's death] can now be closed."

http://www.anesi.com/east/bormann.htm

Back to Hitler.

In addition to Blaschke's probably treacherous unreliabilty, there is also the curious fact that the recent analysis of the skull displayed by the Russians was declared female by American scientists.

I note that Blaschke's supposed proof that the Berlin skull was Hitler's is based on a dental bridge in the jaw.

Which begs a simple question: where is the jaw in the photos of the skull reproduced in the articles?

So, did Blaschke provide a false identification of the skull as Hitler's?

Or have the Russians just displayed a different skull from the one identified as Hitler's? And if so, why would they do such a thing?

The other possibility, I suppose, is that parts of the original skull were not displayed or, most unlikely, have been lost.

However, the original identification seems to rely primarily on dental work allegedly conducted on the jaw. Where is that jaw?