I bought this book at least 12 years ago and never actually got around to reading it. No surprise there some might say. The version I read is a 1956 revision so it’s interesting to see what was known at the time, especially as many of the German prisoners were just being released from the Soviet Union. Roper writes well and gives a great sense of the importance of knowing the fate of Hitler. It’s sometimes hard to remember now-adays that for a good while after the war people weren’t sure if Hitler has escaped, and that this was a very important issue.
One other point of note is the discussion of the fate of Bormann. Roper acknowledges that he doesn’t know Bormanns fate but does provide the evidence that he had acquired regarding it. Now that we know Bormann did try to escape and died in Berlin during that escape it’s interesting to note that the evidence he had found does tie in with what we now know of what happened during the attempt.