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What the first British soldier to enter Adolf Hitler's bunker after his suicide 80 years ago saw... and how he was allowed to take a memento

The first British soldier that the Soviets allowed into Hitler's lair, in July 1945, was Hugh Lunghi, who was in Berlin as an interpreter for the Potsdam Conference.

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