Near its close, the book summarises the bizarre fate of Hitler's corpse. There was never any mystery about its discovery, although it suited Stalin to pretend that there was and he kept even Marshal Zhukov in the dark. A Smersh counter-intelligence team smuggled the remains out of the Chancellery garden and had a positive identification from a dentist's assistant within 48 hours. Yelena Rzhevskaya, a young intelligence officer with a sense of humour, was given charge of Hitler's upper and lower jaws in a cheap jewellery box lined with red satin. Told she would be shot if she lost it, she was still clutching the box in one hand as she poured booze for the Smersh victory party a few nights later. The jaws stayed with Smersh, while the NKVD got the cranium. Both relics have now turned up in the old Soviet archives. Headless Hitler was hidden under a Soviet parade ground at Magdeburg, until he was secretly dug up, cremated and flushed down the sewers in 1970.