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Based on unprecedented access to a long-buried archive, a dramatic and revealing account that sheds new light on Hitler's final hours, his death and his remains.What actually happened in Hitler's bunker? What happened to Hitler's body in those last desperate days after Germany's surrender? Soviet troops had occupied the Berlin sector where Hitler's bunker was located--and they found bodies. Or so they said, and they didn't say much more. Questions have lingered ever since: Did the Russians identify Hitler's burned corpse? Why did Stalin mislead the world into believing the German dictator had escaped? Without a body, doubts spread like wildfire and fed even wilder fantasies.After years of negotiations with Russian authorities, Jean-Christophe Brisard and Lana Parshina were finally granted access to secret files detailing the Soviets' hunt to find and recover Hitler's body.