Memoirs of a wartime interpreter
Rzhevskaya, Elena2018
Book
On May 2nd, 1945, Red Army soldiers broke into Hitler's bunker. Rzhevskaya, a young military interpreter, was with them. Almost accidentally the Soviet military found the charred remains of Hitler and Eva Braun. They also found key documents: Bormann's notes, the diaries of Goebbels and letters of Magda Goebbels. Rzhevskaya was entrusted with the proof of the Hitler's death: his teeth wrenched from his corpse by a pathologist hours earlier. The teeth were given to Rzhevskaya because they believed male agents were more likely to get drunk on Victory Day, blurt out the secret and lose the evidence. She interrogated Hitler's dentist's assistant who confirmed the teeth were his. Elena's role as an interpreter allowed her to forge a link between the Soviet troops and the Germans. The book includes her diary material and later additions, including conversations with Zhukov.
Main title:
Memoirs of a wartime interpreter / Elena Rzhevskaya.
Author:
Rzhevskaya, Elena, author
Imprint:
London : Greenhill, 2018.
Collation:
320 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781784382810 (hbk)
Dewey class:
940.548247940.542
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2737398