Hitler's teeth

<p>On 8 May 1945, Yelena Rzhevskaya was handed a small box covered in red satin. </p><p>The box had once held perfume but now inside – so she said – were Adolf Hitler’s teeth. </p><p>Yelena later claimed this marked the beginning of the search for Hitler’s dental records and, with it, official confirmation that the Soviet Red Army had found the burnt corpse of the German leader.</p><p>According to her memoir, the hunt took the young war interpreter on a car ride …