The English historian, specialist in the history of the Third Reich, Hugh Trevor-Roper, in 1945, on instructions from the British government, was involved in investigating the circumstances of the death of Adolf Hitler, the materials of which made up this book. A scrupulous presentation of the course of events in the last days of the existence of the “thousand-year” Reich and its leader, based on written evidence (diaries, memoirs, documents) and materials from interrogations of participants in the Nuremberg trials, refutes many versions and myths of the circumstances of Hitler’s death or disappearance.