Dr Caroline Sharples

Analysing the Death and Curious Afterlife of the Nazi Dictator- IN PERSON

Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies

This talk explains the persistence of public discourse around Hitler's death. It examines how his demise was anticipated by Allied audiences

Attenborough Building Room 101

Eighty-one years ago, Adolf Hitler retreated into the study of his Berlin bunker and shot himself in the head. Yet, despite the efficacy of that bullet, his fate has been shrouded in speculation and mythmaking. A protracted search for definitive proof of death has helped keep him very much 'alive' in the public imagination, and there have been various efforts to reenact, or reimagine, Hitler's demise across popular culture. As one film critic once put it, 'every decade or so . . . the dictator has to be hauled out of the ground, propped up and slain again, just to make sure he’s [truly] dead'.This talk explains the persistence of public discourse around Hitler's death. It examines how his demise was anticipated by Allied audiences during the Second World War, mourned by loyal National Socialists in 1945, and subsequently represented in postwar popular culture. In the process, it demonstrates how applying a cultural history lens to this topic exposes the emotional investment that 'ordinary people' had placed in the prospect of Hitler meeting a 'fitting end' - and the meanings that his death held for different audiences.

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