International: As Long As I Live ...

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...

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