On the verge of a German invasion, a patriotic female Russian interpreter battles through the front line; but when she witnesses Russian atrocities, and her own army's disdain toward her, she must continue interrogating captured Germans and, lastly, to confirm Hitler's teeth.

SYNOPSIS:

"Yelena's Memoirs" is a story about a courageous young woman, dutifully devoted to country, morality, and the truth. Yelena Moiseyeuna Rzhevskaya was a Russian interpreter who embarked on a four-year journey, from war-torn Moscow to Berlin to prevent the German military machine from world domination. She became a crucial contributor toward Russia's victory in World War Il. This powerfully, riveting story becomes even more personal because Yelena kept a record of where she traveled and with whom she met.

After field training in small Russian towns, Yelena was finally ready for the front line. She traveled with the Intelligence Directorate unit, the first of several units she would deploy with. Throughout her journey, she experienced the complexities of a woman in a man's army. Having to endure the smell of cheap tobacco, awful snoring, and listening to tales of Siberian women soon became distractions to the morbidity and constant bombing. Her compassion was evident by the way she protected a German Prisoner in Zaiminshck from Russian soldiers. In Bydgoszcz, Yelena witnessed how an orphan child's life would never be the same. While In Lyskovo, Yelena watched as an elderly woman wept in the presence of a captured German soldier, not for him but for his mother.

Innocent German and Polish civilians were tragically caught between war and love of country. Their dissatisfaction heightened as German soldiers torched houses in the Podorki Village of Rzhev and shot those who exited. Near Poznan, Yelena met Polish refugee survivors, mostly women with six-pointed yellow stars pinned to their ragged clothing. She was now a part of Smersh Organization, Russia's counter-intelligence unit. As the war's fatalities tragically increased on both sides, so too were the millions of Russian soldiers and civilians who were taken prisoner. When German Panzers and aircraft invaded her position, Yelena was nearly killed and narrowly escaped.

Finally, in the fourth year of the war, the Red Army conquered Berlin. Yelena's task now included the search for key personnel and their prime target, Adolph Hitler. She would meet significant witnesses to Hitler's wedding, suicide, and eventual cremation. She would acquire Josef Goebbels and Martin Bormann's diaries, transcribing vital information from the German hierarchy. Yelena would learn of how the Goebbels murdered their children, before poisoning and having themselves cremated. She heard of the outrage Hitler felt after learning of Goring and Himmler's betrayal of the Reich. Before the Red Army snatched Hitler and Braun's cremated bodies and sent them to a wooded area outside of Finow to meet their final resting place, Yelena met with Hitler's dental surgeon's assistant, Kathe Heusermann. She handed the young assistant a set of teeth and asked for identification. Through x-rays and dental records, Heusermann confirmed Hitler's teeth. Yelena would soon be devastated when details were suppressed, and Stalin decided to conceal all evidence of Hitler's discovery. That includes his meeting with Churchill and Truman at the Potsdam Conference in July 1945.

On her plane trip home, from four agonizing years of war, Yelena peered out her window to witness the devastation. Each location was worse than the last, with so many people suffering so much.

From Kyiv to Stalingrad, smoldering ruins could be seen. Russia resembled a defeated country with her pockmarked farms and demolished farmhouses. Twenty-five million people became homeless when six million buildings were destroyed. The German military had destroyed sixty-four thousand kilometers of railroad track, and 100s of bridges and tunnels. Ten thousand schools, libraries, and hospitals were also destroyed. With obliterated farmland and bad weather, a poor harvest and drought caused a famine that would eventually affect one hundred million people.

The battle for world dominance, through Nazi socialism, had been defeated, but the presentation of the truth had been irrevocably lost. Until now.