In February 1994, in the Russian State archives in Moscow, a worker stumbled upon a cardboard box which seemed misfiled. In it was a set of documents relating to the death of Adolf Hitler. The box contained six volumes of files and two packages. The first contained pieces of burnt wood and some blood-stained cloth - identified as having come from Hitler's bunker in Berlin. In the second box was a small pen-box. Lifting the lid revealed two scorched chunks of a human skull. It was clear that the long-lost NKVD files on the investigation into Hitler's death carried out under Stalin's orders had been unearthed. But the files were more interesting still. Besides photographs and drawings, they contained pages of personal testimony by Hitler's closest aides - his butler, his personal pilot, his dental mechanic, the Bunker's telephonist, the chief of his bodyguard and other SS adjutants and factotums. All of them had been captured by the Red Army and spirited off to Moscow when Berlin fell in 1945. All had been subjected to years of questioning. All had revealed everything they knew about the secret life of Adolf Hitler.
The innermost desires and the everyday behaviour of the Nazi tyrant is now revealed in this volume.
- ISBN10 0002556049
- ISBN13 9780002556040
- Publish Date 27 April 1995 (first published 1 January 1980)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 April 1995
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 448
- Language English