Oddball
05-02-2005, 03:53 AM
'There was a heap of ashes. Someone said it was Hitler'
The first Briton in the Berlin bunker recalls that day - and meeting Stalin
David Smith
Sunday May 1, 2005
The Observer
For most people old enough to remember the war, next Sunday's 60th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day will evoke images of mass euphoria in Trafalgar Square and towns and cities on the home front. For one man, however, it revives memories of walking with giants - the statesmen who won the Second World War and shaped the postwar world.
Hugh Lunghi is thought to be the first Briton to have entered Hitler's Berlin bunker and was one of Winston Churchill's interpreters at the key conferences with Josef Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1474221,00.html
The first Briton in the Berlin bunker recalls that day - and meeting Stalin
David Smith
Sunday May 1, 2005
The Observer
For most people old enough to remember the war, next Sunday's 60th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day will evoke images of mass euphoria in Trafalgar Square and towns and cities on the home front. For one man, however, it revives memories of walking with giants - the statesmen who won the Second World War and shaped the postwar world.
Hugh Lunghi is thought to be the first Briton to have entered Hitler's Berlin bunker and was one of Winston Churchill's interpreters at the key conferences with Josef Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1474221,00.html