The famous writer Elena Rzhevskaya during the Second World War was a military translator at the army headquarters. In Berlin, she participated in the identification of the bodies of Hitler and Goebbels and in the dismantling of documents found in the bunker. She told about this in the book "Berlin, May 1945," published in more than twenty countries of the world. In the proposed book, E. Rzhevskaya explores the phenomenon of the coming of fascism to power and shows readers what type of politician puts fascist ideology at the forefront of history and how it affects the psychology and soul of the person who succumbed to it.