Elena Rzhevskaya. Memories of a War-time Interpreter.

On May 8, 1945, the soldiers of the Red Army broke into Hitler's bunker. With them was Elena Rzhevskaya, a young military interpreter. She and other members of the Soviet military witnessed firsthand the charred remains of Hitler and Eva Braun... Elena was entrusted with the irrefutable proof of the Hitlers death. Tucked safely in her coat pocket, were the jawbones of Adolf Hitler, wrenched from his corpse just hours earlier. Much of the evidence uncovered from the bunker remained buried in the Soviet archives until 1994.

'By the will of fate, I played a part in not allowing Hitler achieve his final goal of disappearing and turning into a myth. Only with time did I finally manage to overcome all the obstacles and make public this secret of the century. I managed to prevent Stalin's dark and murky ambition from taking root - his desire to hide from the world that we had found Hitler's corpse.' (Elena Rzhevskaya, Memories of a War-time Interpreter).

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