by Henrik Eberle · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483830703
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In May 1945, with Berlin newly conquered, agents of the Soviet secret services (the feared NKVD) searched the ruins of the Reich Chancellery to fulfill a secret order from Stalin: to find out what had really become of Adolf Hitler. Stalin needed to make sure that one of the charred bodies found in the garden corresponded to the Führer. But the Soviet dictator was also curious about the methods that Hitler had used to seize power and maintain such fierce control over the German population.
The NKVD agents discovered among the German prisoners Otto Günsche and Heinz Linge, personal assistants to Hitler who enjoyed his trust for years and who carried out the final order to burn his corpse after the suicide. From 1946 to 1949, Günsche and Linge thrashed out, for the so-called Hitler Report, the features of Hitler's private life that could most attract Stalin's attention: his relationship with women, the unhealthy dependence on medications, his vulgar musical and cinematographic tastes or his mocking comments about Chamberlain or Franco. The Hitler Report also recounts, from an unprecedented perspective, the events that marked the history of Germany from 1933 to the final apocalypse of 1945: from the savage repression of internal dissent to the creation of a police state or the outbreak of war.
Henrik Eberle is a German historian. During the first decade of the twenty-first century he came to prominence beyond the confines of the German academic community with compilations, books, articles and interviews concerned with Adolf Hitler. Some of these have been translated into English.
