Once the Red Army had surrounded Berlin in mid-April 1945, the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin ordered his men to capture his German counterpart Hitler alive at all costs. But this was not to be, because the Führer committed suicide in his bunker on April 30. His corpse was then burned. Thanks to a Russian interpreter and a German dental assistant, both of them women, the Soviets were able to identify Hitler’s remains. Nevertheless, Stalin publicly maintained that Hitler’s body had not been found. He also blamed his allies for supporting the Nazi leader’s apparent escape. What were his intentions? And what happened to the two women who thought they had helped to establish the truth?