The original Human Torch and Toro flew into his bunker and burned him to death. However his brain had been 'energized' by and upon his death his mind transferred to a clone body that had been prepared for just such an emergency. In the latter half of the 20th century he assumed the identity of . This phase of his life ended when he transferred his mind into what he believed was a Cosmic Cube.
It was only after he had transferred his mind into the Cube that he realized that the Cube was not complete and nothing more than an empty shell.
The Red Skull eventually retrieved his consciousness from the cube and used it as part of a villainous scheme involving a device called the H-Ray. When Captain America resisted the hate inducing effect of the ray the device exploded, hypothetically destroying the consciousness of Hitler once and for all.
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