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^{Yelena Rzhevskaya, photographed at GHQ on 29 January 1942.}

^{Yelena Rzhevskaya in 1943.}

^{Theo Auerbach’s German–Russian ‘dictionary of swearing’, published by the Army Faculty of Western Languages, Moscow, 1942.}

^{Rzhevskaya and comrades enjoying a light-hearted moment during the winter of 1943.}

^{The best-known photograph of Yelena Rzhevskaya in uniform, dated 30 May 1943.}

^{Amateur dramatics in the French POW camp near Bydgoszcz, seen in the photo given to Rzhevskaya: ‘The role of the mademoiselle was also being taken by a captive French officer.’ With its inscription: ‘From a French soldier of the African army in captivity to the victorious army.’}

^{Marianna and Alfred in Bydgoszcz. ‘Now… I see how young this thirty-year old teacher from Liége still was.’}

^{‘I did manage to tear myself away from the documents for a short while, and walk round the city in the company of our driver, Sergey, and several officers… the Reichstag, not yet cool after the fire, was still smoking.’}

^{In front of the temporary monument built by the Russians to celebrate the Allied victory, decorated with portraits of Truman, Stalin and Churchill.}

^{Rzhevskaya with a pair of traffic cops, German and Russian, large and small: ‘The girls directing traffic… were… enlivening Berlin’s crossroads.’}

^{8 May 1945. The post-mortem examination of the body of Josef Goebbels. Dr Faust Shkaravsky, principal forensic medicine specialist of the 1st Byelorussian Front, is third from the left.}

^{Dental assistant Käthe Heusermann’s diagram of Hitler’s teeth, crucial to identification of the body. Heusermann and her colleague Echtmann were later harshly treated in Soviet captivity.}

^{Käthe Heusermann and dental technician Fritz Echtmann with two Russian officers.}

^{In the Tiergarten with a German sFH 15 cm gun (left, top); in the government district (far left, below); at the Bismarck memorial in the Tiergarten (left). ‘Wyktoria Buzińska sewed me a green dress from the lining of a coat, and ornamented it with… a piece of polka-dotted satin… Later, in May, I wore this dress when I was photographed in Berlin at… various… historic settings.’}

^{Yelena Rzhevskaya at Finow, where the remains of Hitler and Goebbels were re-examined by Stalin’s special emissary, an unnamed general.}

^{Yelena Rzhevskaya at a 1986 conference in memory of Marshal Georgiy Zhukov. His driver, Alexander Buchin, is on the right.}