was quickly released and stated that the Soviet troops treated her well. She stayed in the bunker complex another six to ten days before leaving. She was interrogated in November 1945 by Frederick Stalder, an aide to Richard Helms, then an Office of Strategic Services operative in Berlin. The interview was released by the Central Intelligence Agency in 1981 after it was found in the National Archives by Miriam Kleiman and then obtained by James Kahn who returned the documents to Helms. The notes accompanying the interview note that the final days of the activity within the Führerbunker was of interest to westerners and "none depicted the final days more graphically than Erna Flegel", and Helms himself notes the interview was "solid history". In 2005, Flegel gave an interview to the media who tracked her down to her residence, a nursing home in Germany. The Guardian published an analysis of the interview. Following the 2005 interview, the press around took interest in the interview with subsequent articles in papers in the United States, Germany, and Australia. In July 2005, The Washington Post compared Arnold Weiss's statements at the end of his life to Flegel's statements as both did not want to take their secrets to the grave. There was also commentary on the interview with differing opinions as to whether or not she provided new information about the final days in the Führerbunker. She died in Mölln in 2006, aged 94. In 2014, Jerome Corsi's book on the idea that Hitler escaped Germany noted that Flegel detailed the burial of Hitler's body at the Reich Chancellery. Corsi mentions a 1 December 1945 note attached to Flegel's interview, which noted that while Flegel discussed the caskets containing Hitler and Braun, this was not confirmed. See also Downfall, 2004 German film where she was portrayed by actress Elizaveta Boyarskaya References 1911 births 2006 deaths German people of World War II People from Kiel People from the Province of Schleswig-Holstein German women nurses Women in World War II 20th-century German women