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thumb|upright=1.1|alt=Achromatic close-up of a suited body with a toothbrush mustache, a bloody gunshot wound to the forehead, a darkened right temple, and sunken vestibules|The corpse of an alleged Hitler body double with a gunshot wound to the forehead and a battered right temple (filmed by the [[Soviet Union|Soviets)]]
There is no evidence that Adolf Hitler, the dictator of Nazi Germany, used look-alikes as political decoys during his life, but it has been the subject of speculation. Some stories about his death and replacement by a double were propagated as early as 1939. After capturing Berlin, the Soviet Union claimed that the dictator used a body double to fake his death and escape, which Western scholars regard as disinformation. The Soviets supposedly found a number of similar bodies, with only Hitler's dental remains ever positively identified.
The most prominent evidence of a Hitler double is Soviet footage of a body with a gunshot wound to the forehead, ostensibly found in the Reich Chancellery garden. The Soviets initially thought this body was Hitler's (and later sometimes claimed it was), but dismissed it partly because it was wearing mended socks.