She had come into the study, and Max got up slowly, holding the file in both hands. ‘Yes,’ he said. ‘I’ve been trying to think what this means.’ ‘It means that Adolf Hitler left an heir,’ she said quietly. ‘Have you read everything?’ He nodded. ‘I want to go through it again. I want to make notes and put together what I’ve got. My God, I can’t believe it—’ ‘Neither could Sigmund,’ she said. ‘But it’s there, and it’s true. The Russians found out, and they must have tried to find the child. That’s why they wouldn’t let the British or the Americans talk to any of the people they captured from the Bunker. The ones they released didn’t know anything. When Yusevsky defected, the secret came with him. American Intelligence knows about Janus.’ ‘Why that name?’ Max said. ‘Why did Hitler choose that as a code?’ ‘Sigmund thought it represented himself and Eva,’ Minna Walther said. ‘The god at the gate of the city, facing attack, defending his people at one and the same time.’ ‘The child was never found,’ Max said slowly.
