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Russian offensive against Berlin 55–56, 63–64, 65, 68–69, 75, 81, 91, 94, 108, 113–115

Russian State Archives. See GARF

Russian State Military Archives (RGVA/Moscow), 46, 61, 123, 164, 167–173, 180–185, 200–202, 203–219

Rzhevskaya, Elena (Soviet German interpreter) 64, 115, 153–154, 155

Schädle, Franz (Head of Hitler’s bodyguards) 126, 150

Schroeder, Christa (Hitler secretary) 79

Schweitzer, Agent (in SMERSH) 213–214

Semenovsky, Dr. Piotr Sergeyevich (Soviet forensic specialist) 257–259, 262–263

Serov, General Ivan (Soviet) 194–197, 198, 236

SHAEF (Supreme Allied Expeditionary Force) 57

Sidnev, Major General Alexey (Soviet intelligence) 191, 194–195, 198, 267

SMERSH (Soviet counterespionage unit 1943–1946) 127, 145 152, 155, 175–179 passim , 187, 194, 197, 212, 238–241, 262

Sognnaes, Dr. Reidar F. (dental scientist) 272

Sokolovsky, Marshal (Soviet commander of Berlin 1946) 255–256

Speer, Albert 18, 64, 73, 74, 80, 192

Stalin, Josef 3, 6, 115, 148, 153, 163, 175–179 passim , 185, 186–190, 197–198, 202, 212, 263, 268–269, 311

Stalin, Svetlana (Josef’s daughter) 178–179. See also Peters, Lana

Stalin, Yakov (Josef’s son) 178–179

Steiner, SS General Felix 66, 69

Ström, Ferdinand (forensic dentist) 272

Stumpfegger, Dr. Ludwig (Hitler’s surgeon) 192

Trevor-Roper, Hugh (British historian) 191, 303

Truman, US President Harry 186, 268

TsA FSB. See FSB (Russian Secret Service), archives of

U-530 (German submarine) 13–15

Vadis, Lt. General Aleksandr Anatolevich (Soviet leader of SMERSH unit 1945) 127–128, 152–154, 155–159, 162, 174, 194

Vladimirsev, Nikolai Igorevich (GARF archivist) 7, 9, 10–11, 19, 22, 29–30, 36–37, 226–228, 229–231, 246–247, 309

Wagner, Walter (Berlin official) 98

Weidling, General Helmuth (German commander in Berlin 1945) 149, 173

Weil, Raphaël (French scientist/engineer) 286, 289–290, 300–301, 303–

Wenck, General Walther (German) 70, 79, 108

Wermuth, Otto (U-530 commander) 13–14, 15

Wolf, Johanna (Hitler secretary) 79

Zelenin Lt. General (Soviet intelligence) 248

Zhukov, Marshal Georgy (Soviet commander in battle of Berlin) 55, 75, 113, 115, 153, 188–189

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Le Monde , 2 May 2000, Agathe Duparc.

Libération , 2 May 2000, Hélène Despic-Popovic.

The Independent , 20 February 1993, Helen Womack.

Sven Felix Kellerhoff, The Führer Bunker: Hitler‘s Last Refuge , Berlin, Berlin-Story-Verlag, 2004, p. 50.

Hans Baur, I was Hitler’s Pilot , London, Muller, 1958, p. 180.

Heinz Linge and Otto Günsche, Le Dossier Hitler , trad. par Danièle Darneau, Paris, Presses de la Cité, [2005] 2006, p. 281.190

GARF 9401/2/552, f.114

Ibid., p. 299.

Heinz Linge, With Hitler to the End: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler’s Valet , trans. Geoffrey Brooks, Barnsley, Frontline Books, 2013, p. 187.

Ibid., p. 174.

Erich Kempka, I was Hitler’s Chauffeur: The Memoirs of Erich Kempka , Barnsley, Frontline Books, 2012, p. 57.

Erich Kempka, I was Hitler’s Chauffeur , op. cit., p. 58.

Rochus Misch, J’étais garde du corps d’Hitler (1940–1945), Paris, Le Cherche Midi, 2006, p. 193.

Elena Rzhevskaya, Carnets de l’interprète de guerre , Paris, Christian Bourgois Éditeur, 2011, p. 287.

Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich , London, Orion, 1970, p. 229.

Heinz Linge and Otto Günsche, Le Dossier Hitler , op. cit., p. 306.

Nicolaus von Below, At Hitler’s Side: The Memoirs of Hitler’s Luftwaffe Adjutant , trans. Geoffrey Brooks, London, Greenhill, 2001, p. 236.

Heinz Linge, With Hitler to the End , op. cit., p. 189.

Elena Rzhevskaya, Carnets , op. cit., p. 289.

Ibid.

Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich , op. cit., pp. 482–3.

Rochus Misch, Hitler’s Last Witness: The Memoirs of Hitler’s Bodyguard , pp. 158–9.

Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich , op. cit., p. 484.

Traudl Junge, Until the Final Hour: Hitler’s Last Secretary , trans. Anthea Bell, Hachette, 2012.

Traudl Junge, Until the Final Hour , op. cit., p. 178.

Rochus Misch, Hitler’s Last Witness , op. cit., p. 197.

Rochus Misch, Hitler’s Last Witness , op. cit., p. 197.

Traudl Junge, Until the Final Hour , p. 185.

Traudl Junge, Until the Final Hour , p. 172.

Hans Baur, I was Hitler’s Pilot , op. cit., p. 188.

Elena Rzhevskaya, Carnets , op. cit., p. 227.

Zhukov (Marshal), Memoirs , New York, Delacorte Press, 1971, p. 622.