Hitler's Will
Helen Fry

Hitler's Will

The discovery of Hitler’s Will, sewn into the lining of the jacket of his press attaché and brought out of the bunker, caused a massive stir amongst British Intelligence circles at the end of WW2. Such was the secrecy surrounding its finding that every effort was made to keep it out of the public domain. The last surviving witness to the extraordinary discovery of Hitler’s last Wills and Testament has finally been told. 

Herman Rothman’s translation of Goebbels Addendum to Hitler’s Political Will, and the ensuing investigation into the exact circumstances of Hitler’s suicide, is one of the most astonishing stories of the twentieth century. This book is also the story of Herman himself, the last surviving German-speaking interrogator of the 3rd Counter-Intelligence Section of the British Army who was part of the team that found and translated Hitler’s political and personal wills and Goebbels’ addendum. 

The book is about one family’s desperate fight for survival against Hitler’s desire to kill all the Jews. Returning to Germany in British army uniform, Herman was assigned to the Intelligence Corps in post-war Germany, the land where he had been born. He was engaged on the interrogation of key Nazi war criminals and guards, including those who were present in the bunker at the time of Hitler’s suicide. He had just witnessed too the horror of Bergen-Belsen after its liberation, but he was desperate to demonstrate the order of law, to uphold human rights, and show that despite the personal trauma of the Hitler regime, he could be above the emotion of revenge. A powerful story, it formed the basis of the Channel 5 documentary The Hunt for Hitler’s Missing Millions (2014) in which he and Helen appeared.

Book Details:

  • Author: Helen Fry
  • Published Year: 2009
  • Rights Sold
    • UK: History Press
Helen Fry

Helen Fry

Helen Fry was raised in North Devon and went on to graduate from the University of Exeter with a degree and Ph.D. She has written over 25 books on the Second World War with particular reference to the 10,000 Germans and Austrians who fought for Britain, and intelligence, espionage and prisoners of war. Her highly acclaimed book The Walls Have Ears: The Greatest Intelligence Operation of WWII was in the top 8 Daily Mail’s Books of the Year in War, and has been optioned for film. It has been the subject of numerous documentaries and continues to receive media attention.&n...
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