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1914-2003. [[Hugh Trevor-Roper]] was a prominent British historian.<ref>Paul Lewis, [http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/26/obituaries/26cnd-trevor.html Hugh Trevor-Roper, Hitler Historian, Dies at 89], New York Times, 26 January 2003.</ref>

During World War Two, Trevor-Roper served in the [[Secret Intelligence Service]] (SIS), where he was a colleague of [[Kim Philby]]. At the end of the war, he carried out an SIS investigation into the fate of Hitler, which provided the material for his 1947 book, 'The Last Days of Hitler'. 

Trevor-Roper attended the 1950 Berlin [[Congress for Cultural Freedom]], as a member of the British delegation, which was funded by the Foreign Office, though the [[Information Research Department]].<ref>Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper, Granta Books, 2000, p.76.</ref> He was highly critical of the tone of the conference, and attacked the domination of proceedings by 'rootless European ex-Communists'.<ref>Hugh Wilford, Calling the Tune? The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War, Frank Cass, 2003, p.195.</ref>

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