Immediately after the end of World War II, rumors spread that Hitler and a number of his henchmen managed to escape by faking their own death. The intelligence services of the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition spent a lot of effort and money studying these legends. Soviet military intelligence officers were among the first to tackle this problem. It was they who managed to collect the most important facts about the suicide of the leader of the Third Reich. The operatives gleaned particularly valuable information from the interrogations of Hitler’s personal pilot, SS Gruppenführer Hans Baur, nicknamed Kestrel, who was wounded in Soviet captivity...