In a 2009 episode of History's "MysteryQuest", a bone-specializing archaeologist collected samples from a skull fragment in the Soviet archives believed to be Hitler's. DNA and forensic examination indicated that the fragment, which had an exit wound from a gunshot through the back of the head, belonged to a woman less than 40 years old. On the same program, fringe author H. D. Baumann asserts that Hitler increased his use of doubles after a 1944 assassination attempt. Baumann claims that the darned-sock-wearing double, whose ears he points out are different than Hitler's and allegedly was two inches shorter, was killed by the Germans on 30 April 1945. Citing these details, as well as the notion that the bodies of Hitler and Braun were never found and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's claim that Hitler escaped to Spain or Argentina, Baumann concludes that Hitler faked his death.