[PUGACHEV]

The trouble with Trevor-Roper’s book is that at the time he did his investigation, he was working for British Intelligence, and he was ordered by Dick White the head of British counterintelligence (and later MI5 and MI6) specifically to rebut Stalin’s accusations that Hitler had not died in the bunker but had escaped to somewhere in the West. What conclusion would you expect him to reach under those circumstances?

[Perdogg]

I believe that Hugh Trevor Roper was not told to produce results: Preface to the Seventh edition, written in 1995, fair usage claimed under Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 107:

"It is now fifty years since I was appointed by the late Sir Dick White, then head of Counter-Intelligence in the British Zone of Germany, to find out, if possible, what had happened to Hilter.." (The Last Days of Hitler, Pan Books, page ix)