In a previous historical work, Thomas argued that the man called Rudolf Hess who served a life sentence in Spandau Prison was not the real Rudolf Hess, the one-time number two man in the Nazi Party. Not content with getting this implausible story published as non-fiction, Thomas has concluded, in "The Murder of Adolf Hitler", that Eva Braun did not commit suicide on 30 April 1945, but escaped the Bunker and survived the war. More tentatively, he argues that Adolf Hitler was not a suicide either.