"What if the Allies would have said to Hitler enough is enough when he annexed the Sudetenland, " he asked.

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Vera Greenwood, who was born in Berlin and remembers seeing Hitler with Nazis marching in the street, said her father knew they had to leave when he was forced out of his job as a lawyer.

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Hitler's image was highly recognizable in Poland, she said.

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And the bunker Hitler visited in the 1940s when he came to occupied France is said to be just a few hundred yards from the burial site.

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"When Mussolini and Hitler visited each other before the war, they would each have their photographers document their trips, " Maddalena said.

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Allan Bloom, in the "Closing The American Mind, " said that we can no longer conceive of evil because the only word we have for evil is Hitler, and that's become much of the political discourse.

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