1948 issue of the Italian magazine Tempo, author Emil Ludwig wrote that a double could have been cremated in Hitler's place, allowing him to flee by submarine to Argentina.
British Historian turned Intelligence Officer Trevor Roper would point to this event as being cataclysmic in the dilemma of comprehending Hitler’s fate: “Total silence enveloped the ostentatiously unresolved mystery, and this apparent repudiation of past admissions led, more than any other cause, to the growing belief that Hitler was alive after all.”