Volume 11, Number 5 · September 26, 1968
Hitler's Last Minute
By Hugh Trevor-Roper
The Death of Adolf Hitler, Unknown Documents from Soviet Archives
by Lev Bezymenskl
Harcourt, Brace & World, 114 pp., $3.95
A few months ago, the German publisher Christian Wegner offered to his Western colleagues a share in a great scoop. From Russia he had obtained a book which, he said, would be 'a sensation to all, not only the historians'; for it would, 'for the very first time,' show to the world the true story of Hitler's death, as documented from Soviet archives. This new story, he said, would 'considerably alter the picture which the world has had of Hitler's death.'
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