Daly-Groves graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in History from the University of Central Lancashire in 2015 and received the Sydney Lee Prize.
[14][e][f] In 1945, an excavation team led by United States intelligence officer William F. Heimlich referenced Karnau's "rather sketchy map" in an unsuccessful hunt for evidence of Hitler's remains.
Daly-Groves concludes that the 2009 DNA analysis (showing the skull fragment to be from a female) supports the interpretation that the Soviets were unhappy with the quality of their investigations.
[23] He believes that documentation likely remains unexplored in both the Stalin secretariat files and the British National Archives which could clarify investigations of past survival rumours and disprove more recent claims.
[26] However, Daly-Groves declares that a death by some kind of gunshot no longer carries "ideological baggage" and states his hope that his book would lay to rest various conspiracy theories, especially those surfacing since 2009.