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Author Brisard, Jean-Christophe, author.

Title The death of Hitler : the final word / Jean-Christophe Brisard and Lana Parshina ; translated by Shaun Whiteside.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Da Capo Press, 2018.
©2018

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 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  943.086 BRISARD    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  943.0864 BRISARD    Check Shelf
Edition First U.S. edition.
Description vi, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note Includes index.
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!" -- 25 April: "Poor, poor Adolf. Abandoned by everyone, betrayed by everyone!" -- 26 April: "Stay alive, my Führer, it's the will of every German!" -- 27 April: "Eva, you must leave the Führer..." -- 28 April: "Himmler's opening gambit to end European war" -- 29 April: "In the presence of witnesses, I ask you, my Führer Adolf Hitler, if you wish to join Frau Eva Braun in matrimony?" -- 30 April: "Where are your planes?" -- 1 May: "Hitler is dead. He fought to his last breath for Germany against Bolshevism." -- 2 May: "Hitler has escaped!" -- Part III: The investigation (II) -- Moscow, December 2016 -- Lubynaka, Moscow, December 2016 -- Berlin, 2 May 1945 -- Moscow, March 2017 -- Moscow, May 1945 -- Russian State Military Archives, Moscow, March 2017 -- Part IV: Conclusions? -- Moscow, March 2017 -- Berlin, 30 May 1946 -- Summer 2017 -- Paris, September 2017 -- Epilogue.
Summary Answers the lingering questions surrounding Hitler's death in his bunker using unprecedented access to secret Russian archives that also detail the layout of the bunker and offer eyewitness accounts of the dictator's final days.
Subject Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Death and burial.
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Death and burial -- Archives.
Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti -- Archives.
Added Author Parshina, Lana, 1978- author.
Added Title Mort d'Hitler. English
ISBN 9780306922589
0306922584
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