Ebook: The Death of Hitler: the Final Word

On April 30, 1945, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker as the Red Army closed in on Berlin. Within four days the Soviets had recovered his body. But the truth about what the Russian secret services found was hidden from history, when, three months later, Stalin officially declared to Truman and Churchill that Hitler was still alive and had escaped abroad. Reckless rumors about what really happened to Hitler began to spread like wildfire and, even today, they have not been put to rest. Until now. In 2017, after two years of painstaking negotiations with the Russian authorities, award-winning investigative journalists Jean-Christophe Brisard and Lana Parshina gained access to confidential Soviet files that finally revealed the truth behind the incredible hunt for Hitler's body. Their investigation includes new eyewitness accounts of Hitler's final days, exclusive photographic evidence and interrogation records, and exhaustive research into the power struggle that ensued between Soviet, British, and American intelligence services. And for the first time since the end of World War II, official, cutting-edge forensic tests have been completed on the human remains recovered from the bunker graves'a piece of skull with traces of a lethal bullet, a fragment of bone, and teeth. In The Death of Hitler'written as thrillingly as any spy novel'Brisard and Parshina debunk all previous conspiracy theories about the death of the FUhrer. With breathtaking precision and immediacy they penetrate one of the most powerful and controversial secret services to take readers inside Hitler's bunker in its last hours'and solve the most notorious cold case in history.;Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Part I: The Investigation (I); Moscow, 6 April 2016; Berlin, May 1945; Moscow, October 2016; Paris, October-November 2016; Part II: The Last Days of Hitler; 19 April: "Where are the Russians? Is the front holding? What's the Führer doing? When is he leaving Berlin?"; 20 April: "Führer's birthday. Sadly no one is in the mood for a party."; 21 April: "This is the final act."; 22 April: "The war is lost."; 23 April: "I know Göring is rotten."; 24 April: "Soldiers, wounded men, all of you to arms!"