Hugh Trevor-Roper, Hitler historian, 89
Posted: Monday, January 27th, 2003 6:52 pm
Hugh Trevor-Roper, a British historian who wrote a best-selling account of Hitler’s final days in the Berlin bunker but damaged his reputation 35 years later by authenticating forged Hitler diaries, died yesterday in Oxford, England. He was 89.
“The Last Days of Hitler,” published in 1947, was based on the official investigation into Hitler’s fate conducted by Professor Trevor-Roper as a wartime officer in Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service.
Relying mainly on interviews with captured Nazi leaders and others close to Hitler, Professor Trevor-Roper established that Hitler’s new wife, Eva Braun, took poison and that he shot himself at about 3:30 p.m. on May 1, 1945, as Soviet forces advanced on the Reich Chancellery’s bunker, and that their bodies were burned in the yard. … Read full obituary
