When Lieutenant-Colonel Roswell P Rosengren arrived at Adolf Hitler’s “Führerbunker” in the days after Germany’s surrender in 1945, he wasted little time in examining the bloodstained sofa where the Nazi leader had taken his life.

A US intelligence expert and chief information officer for Allied Supreme Commander General Dwight Eisenhower, Rosengren was one of four senior American soldiers granted access by the Soviet military to the dictator’s lair in the aftermath of the fall of Berlin .

While the exact purpose of the visit by Rosengren and his colleagues is unclear, they went about their task with precision. New Feature

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Using a knife, Rosengren cut a swatch of cloth from the small, two-seat couch where Hitler and Eva Braun had k

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