Dredging up the truth about Adolf Hitler’s final hours

There are far too many self-importantly melodramatic passages. Still, Brisard and Parshina deserve great credit for finally nailing their target

Adolf Hitler in 1941, four years before his suicide in a Berlin bunker Pic: Getty

Biography: The Death of Hitler, By Jean-Christophe Brisard and Lana Parshina, Hodder & Stoughton, €17.25

In the summer of 1945, the FBI received an eyewitness report that Adolf Hitler was still alive and working as a fisherman on the Aran Islands. Since some US diplomats believed that Ireland was one of the few countries that might offer protection to a fugitive Führer, this may not have been seen as a totally outlandish idea. ...