Berlin, May 1945. A Military Interpreter Dairy By Elena Rzhevskaya Russian Edition

Berlin, May 1945
Notes of a military translator

Elena Rzhevskaya

In May 1945, Hitler's charred corpse was found and identified among the ruins of fallen Berlin. A young military translator, Guards Lieutenant Elena Kagan, who fought in the war from Rzhev to Berlin, was a direct participant in these events. But only 20 years later, writer Elena Rzhevskaya was able to tell how it happened. Her book "Berlin, May 1945" was published with large censorship cuts, but even in such a truncated form it caused a sensation, revealing the "secret of the century". And only now is this legendary book being published in its full author's version. The memoirs of the key witness, thanks to whom the Fuhrer was identified, preserved in Rzhevskaya's personal archive, are being published for the first time.