Problems that are difficult for scientists to understand

Chapter 24 The Flames of War (5)
After all, speculation is speculation, and to solve the mystery, there is still a link of argument.An autopsy is one way, but Napoleon's tomb is covered with marble weighing up to 35 tons. Just to prove a conjecture, the French government is unwilling to open the tomb cover.At this time, Professor Hamilton Smith of the University of Glasgow in Scotland introduced a new method of using hair to test the content of arsenic.Fusufpod's eyes suddenly lit up.With the help of Henri Lasock, the president of the "Napoleon Experts Association" in Paris, he obtained a hair of Napoleon and sent it to Smith. In July 1960, Smith replied that, from his hair, the deceased had taken a large amount of arsenic during his lifetime.In order to increase the persuasiveness of the test, Fusuferbod collected 7 hairs shaved on the day of Napoleon's death and submitted them to Smith for testing.Smith divided them into small sections of 50 mm each, measured the arsenic content of each section, and drew a fluctuation curve; at the same time, Fusufpod also listed Napoleon's illness table for the last 5 months.Comparing the two, it was found that the increase and decrease of the arsenic content in the hair and the ups and downs of the disease were completely consistent in time.So far, Napoleon was poisoned and died without a doubt.So who is the murderer?Leaving aside all exceptions, the focus falls on two of Napoleon's loyal entourages—Montolon and Marsanne.After some in-depth research, Fusuferpod found that the murderer was Montoron—an old nobleman with two faces and three knives.

Are there any objections?Let Napoleon himself clarify the cause of his death. In 1840, Napoleon's remains were buried in Paris.In St. Helena, when people removed the coffin lid, they couldn't help being surprised: the emperor's face was still the same.The long 19 years of underground life did not make his remains rotten.Isn't this the "credit" of arsenic?Arsenic can kill people, but in turn, it can also promote the anti-corrosion ability of corpses.Napoleon himself confirmed to the people that he was murdered.

But is this the answer?Although this new point of view is well-argued, it seems that it is difficult to overthrow the long-held traditional view and be included in the official history books for a while.

How General Patton Died
In December 1945, a prominent figure in the U.S. military passed away. He was Patton, the famous general in World War II.He was seriously injured in a car accident the day before he was going to leave Europe to return home for vacation, and died because of ineffective rescue.Soon after the accident, some people believed that there was a conspiracy and it was definitely not an ordinary traffic accident.Indeed, there are many doubts about this matter that are puzzling: at that time, the gate of the rear gate was raised after the train passed, and the car carrying Patton was moving forward slowly.Suddenly, a truck made a sharp turn to the left, causing the two vehicles to collide.There were three people in the car, and the other two were unharmed. Barton hit his head on the steel frame of the car partition, bleeding profusely from the wound, and soon lost consciousness.Thompson, the truck driver, disappeared after the accident, and nothing is known about him other than a few points on his military resume, becoming a mysterious figure.The routine investigation of the military police at the scene was extremely sloppy and hasty, even more perfunctory than the investigation of ordinary traffic accidents in similar circumstances. Any investigation has been done before.In File No. 12 of Patton, there are all the documents during his service, but there is no material about the circumstances of his death, and the Casualty Management Section has not filed the documents related to the accident, let alone seriously traced the driver who caused the accident. The triumphant welcome Barton received upon his return home after VE Day was in stark contrast.And hold the "assassination theory"

One of the reasons why there are so many people involved is that the official investigation of this case was very inappropriate. There was never a proper investigation into Patton's inexplicable death, and the official ended it hastily before drawing a clear conclusion. This has given rise to many speculations and legends.Lieutenant Barbaras, captain of the gendarmerie, was one of the people closest to the scene. Based on the materials obtained from the preliminary investigation, he concluded that "the drivers of the two vehicles caused the accident due to lack of care."But what is incomprehensible is that his on-site investigation report later disappeared. In 1971, he wrote to the War Department twice, asking for a copy of the report, and the reply he got was: the report could not be found.According to the investigation, the only surviving document is the testimonial of Barton's driver Woodling, but it has obvious traces of tampering, and the ability to use words and sentences on it has exceeded his cultural level at that time. In 1978, the film "The Flower of a Senior Officer" produced by MGM Films of the United States believed that Patton's death was by no means an accident, but a component of a blatant criminal conspiracy.The director put it more explicitly: "My intention is to make everyone in the audience put a big question mark in their minds about the idea that General Patton was killed simply because of a car accident."

Some say Patton's death was the result of an elaborate plot by his superiors, who had several reasons for getting rid of him.First, Patton became pro-German after the end of World War II.He said we had to choose between the Germans and the Russians, and I preferred the Germans.When he returned to Europe to perform post-war missions, he fully exposed his hatred of the Communist Party. He used his power to try to preserve the backbone of German fascism-the Waffen SS.Second, Patton wanted to unite several undamaged SS divisions in Germany to provoke a terrible war against the Soviet Union. He believed that the enemy of the American people was the socialist Soviet Union.Third, Patton repeatedly fought against the action plans, schedules, and combat intentions formulated by the senior generals, so that he later developed to the point where he could do whatever he liked.This made the bosses furious, which was even more intolerable after the war.Therefore, when the war in Europe ended, Patton's colleagues all moved to the Far East battlefield, but Patton was left in Europe. He had asked to fight in the Pacific Ocean or in China, but was rejected. For Patton, who is capable of military affairs, it seems unbelievable because the bosses have already considered Patton's future.Since the publication of Leopold's "Lonely Heroes Become Crazy" and Nolan's "Aragons Project", more people hold this view.Some even suggested that Eisenhower might have been an accomplice.

During the war, Patton publicly despised Eisenhower many times and accused him. Patton's behavior is likely to become a stumbling block for Eisenhower to succeed Marshall as Army Chief of Staff.Nolan argues:

At that time, Eisenhower's confidants were planning to recommend Eisenhower to be the president of the United States, but they were afraid that Patton might say or do something that was not conducive to Eisenhower's presidency and made him miss the opportunity.

Thus, the plot to assassinate Patton so that he would no longer be a threat to Eisenhower came into being.Barton's death was the result of their careful planning and clever tricks.The moment the truck slammed into Patton's car, the sniper fired a rubber bullet at the car, hitting Patton in the head and injuring his neck, and Patton finally died.

There is also a belief that Barton's death is related to the gold case.During the Second World War, the U.S. military discovered a large number of gold hoarded by the Germans in Mittenwald.Soon, some senior military officers in the United States stole the gold, and Patton personally led the investigation of the case.It is said that when the gold theft case was about to come to light and the perpetrators were about to be caught, Barton personally signed the death penalty for these perpetrators.

But at this critical moment, Patton died, which was undoubtedly another overreach by those officers.Whether it was Barton who appropriated the gold himself or he prevented others from taking it for himself, Barton could not escape the fate of death.

Due to the suddenness of the incident, witnesses, including the gendarmes present, had various recollections and statements.One of the lieutenants, Shanahan, who claimed to be "the first people on the scene", even denied that Patton died in a traffic accident. He said in January 1979: "Patton died three weeks after the crash. Died of pneumonia."

Patton's cause of death has not yet been definitively concluded.Patton's allure lies not only in his reputation as a "lone hero" as the commander-in-chief of the U.S. Third Army, but also in the mystery of his death.

Why Heydrich Disappeared
For many years, Heydrich's whereabouts have been recognized by historians all over the world as one of the most mysterious mysteries of World War II, because he was neither dead nor alive.

The Nazi Heydrich, known as the Killer, was one of the most famous German fighter pilots of World War I.After the war he became a policeman in Munich.By the late 20s, Heydrich was an undercover anti-communist officer in the Munich Police Department.The anti-communist secret report he wrote caught the attention of Himmler, the leader of the Nazi stormtroopers and the chief of the Gestapo, so he was promoted several levels in just a few years in the 20s, until he became the head of the secret operation of the Gestapo and became the leader of the Nazis. One of the most powerful figures in Germany.Power finally gave Heydrich the opportunity to kill:
他是1942年1月20日制定屠杀欧洲犹太人的“最后解决方案”的15名纳粹高级官员之一，这一政策使600万的犹太人于1942—1945年间在集中营里被残杀。战争临结束前，他亲自下令处决所有布切法斯特集中营里关押的人员。

Heydrich is a veritable Nazi perpetrator of the Holocaust.

For a long time, there have been four main theories about Heydrich's final whereabouts.

The first statement was mostly put forward by some German historians.They believed that Heydrich boarded an armored vehicle after leaving Hitler's "Eagle's Nest" bunker and was about to flee, but they did not expect to collide with an Allied tank unit on the way to Berlin and died in artillery fire. In 1963, it was even claimed to have discovered Heydrich's tomb, which contained Heydrich's bones.However, when scientists conducted a scientific examination of the skull taken from the tomb and found that the owner of the skull was 15-30 years younger than Heydrich when he died, it is clear that there is no valid evidence for this statement.

The second theory is popular among the people, that Heydrich disguised himself and slipped to Egypt in the Middle East, or went to South America to continue his Nazi secret activities, and lived an anonymous life ever since.Since then, people have claimed to have seen him in the former East Germany, Switzerland, Argentina, Brazil, Raja Barra, Damascus, New Hampshire, and even Washington.

The third argument is that Heydrich actually killed his wife and three children two days before Hitler committed suicide, and then committed suicide.

The fourth argument holds that Heydrich fell into the hands of the Soviet Red Army after leaving the bunker of the Chancellery in Berlin. He exchanged information for a way out, and the Soviet intelligence department gave him a new life, and he lived a peaceful life in the Soviet Union from then on. Life.There are even legends about Heydrich falling into the hands of the Americans and becoming a tool of the Cold War.This has prompted international Jewish organizations to urge the US government and Congress to conduct an immediate and thorough investigation into the incident.

The US official agency responsible for hunting down Nazi war criminals around the world said that there is evidence that the Americans detained Heydrich's statement is indeed "significant."In fact, as early as 1996, the agency had begun to investigate Heydrich's whereabouts, and asked the CIA, the Department of Justice, and then Secretary of Defense Cohen to provide Heydrich's relevant files under the Freedom of Information Act. However, the demands of the "Simon Wensenssel Center" were ignored until two years later, when the center was informed that the vast majority of Heydrich's files remained classified for national security reasons, so Cannot be handed over to the center.

So when the mystery of the murderer's whereabouts will be solved, it seems that it will take some time.

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