Immediately after capturing the Führerbunker, a Soviet investigative team swept up the remains found in the trench—they included a sizable section of jawbone with teeth attached—and spirited them to Moscow. In short order, Hitler’s charred remains were positively and indisputably identified. Yet, for reasons clear only to him, Stalin chose to withhold this information—and not only from his American and British allies, but even from his most senior military commanders in the field. Rather than be allowed to savor their moment of victory, those commanders were exhorted to find the “fugitive”
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