A team of Soviet detectives conducted last week that if Adolf Hitler was dead, he had not died in the ruins of his Reich Chancellery.
Led by quiet, blue-eyed, middle-aged Major Ivan Nikitine, deputy chief of Stalin's own security police, Russian criminologists reconstructed the last days of Hitler in Berlin. Beside a bookcase in Hitler's personal room in the battle-wrecked Chancellery the sleuths found a thin concrete removable panel. Behind was a man-sized hole leading to a super-secret concrete shelter, far underground and 500 meters away. Another tunnel connected the shelter with an underground...