By Toby Axelrod , August 2, 2016 
 
 Long-lost sections of a work journal kept by the notorious, high-ranking Nazi Heinrich Himmler have been found in an archive in Moscow, according to reports in the German tabloid BILD. 
 
 Himmler, who was head of the SS and a chief architect of the genocide against the Jews, reportedly took assiduous notes on his daily activities. Parts of his wartime diary are known, particular from the later years. The newly discovered sections were in a file marked "diary". 
 
 Some 1,000 pages in all, the documents are being studied by the German Historical Institute in Moscow, whose director, Nikolaus Katzen, told BILD they are "of outstanding historical significance" and made him "shudder". 
 
 He noted everything from the banal details about his various working trips and leisure activities, to his observation of a gassing of hundreds of prisoners. The same evening, he attended an SS banquet. 
 
 Early diaries of Himmler were found in the 1950s. Hundreds of letters turned up in Tel Aviv several years ago. 
 
 Researcher Matthias Uhl told BILD that the newly uncovered documents help complete the picture of Himmler, who was "a beast full of contradictions. He was on one hand the unscrupulous executioner, who uttered death sentences in passing and who planned the Holocaust. On the other hand, he went to great lengths to please his SS elite, their families, friends and acquaintances." 
 
 Himmler committed suicide in May 1945 rather than face post-war justice. ||||| A RUSSIAN interpreter's incredible mission to keep Hitler's teeth safely in a box in the days after his death has been told in English for the first time. 
 
 Yelena Rzhevskaya was 25-years-old when her Soviet unit commander Colonel Gorbushin handed her a burgundy box and told her 'these are Hitler's teeth, if you lose them you are answerable with your head'. 
 
 Alamy 6 Yelena Rzhevskaya was handed a burgundy box with Hitler's teeth 
 
 German radio had announced Hitler killed himself on April 30, 1945, eight days later officials were still trying to get confirmation. 
 
 Theories were circulating that the Fuhrer could have escaped from Berlin and was either hiding in the Alps or en route to South America. 
 
 Yelena's unit was tasked with finding out if the charred teeth discovered in the grounds of the Reich Chancellery were in fact Hitler's. 
 
 Her memoirs have now been published in English for the first time and tell the true story of how the Nazi dictator's death was confirmed. 
 
 Moscoop 6 The teeth were the key to proving Hitler had died 
 
 Getty - Contributor 6 There were rumours Hitler had fled Berlin 
 
 Colonlel Gorbushin is said to have told Yelena she was entrusted with the mission because 'we have no safe and as a woman, you're less likely than a man to get drunk and lose them'. 
 
 The memoir tells of trying to trace Hitler's dentists in the war-torn streets of Berlin. 
 
 She wrote: "In places smoke was still rising, the city’s air still filled with the fumes of battle. 
 
 "The barricades, crushed by tank tracks, had yet to be dismantled. Nurses in grey, with white head-scarves bearing a red cross, looked exhausted as, sternly and silently, they went about their duties." 
 
 Reuters 6 A dentist was able to recite the make-up of Hitler's teeth 
 
 Getty - Contributor 6 The Fuhrer's death was announced in April 1945 
 
 After hours of searching around the city the team traced the dentist Kathe Heusermann to an apartment near the surgery. 
 
 She managed to find X-rays of Hitler's teeth and his dental records. At 10am the following days she sat down with Russian officers to describe the teeth from memory. 
 
 The dentist recalled gold bridges and crowns attached to the teeth in the box and Hitler's X-rays. 
 
 Getty - Contributor 6 The teeth later went on display in Russia to mark 55 years since the end of the war 
 
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 Yelena wrote: "I really believed that all the nonsensical rumours that Hitler was alive would be swept away and truth would prevail." 
 
 In 2000, Russian authorities put the teeth on display as part of an exhibition to mark the 55th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. 
 
 After the war, Yelena returned to Moscow and became a writer. She died in April last year.
– Among their 1,000 pages, the newly found diaries of Holocaust architect Heinrich Himmler track his hourly schedule—filled with activities both mundane and grotesque—over the years 1938, 1943, and 1944. The Jewish Chronicle reports that some of Himmler's diaries were discovered in the 1950s, and hundreds of letters surfaced in Tel Aviv more recently; these "service diaries" were reportedly taken by the Red Army, archived in Podolsk near Moscow, and forgotten. Germany's Bild newspaper on Tuesday began serializing the diaries, and the Times of London has details. Himmler began many days with a lengthy massage in an effort to assuage chronic stomach cramps. Hours of meetings would follow (one entry shows 19 policy meetings in a four-hour span); meetings occurred with 1,600 people over the course of the diaries. The Times reports plenty of innocuous moments: looking at the stars and planned phone calls with his daughter Gudrun, identified as "Puppi." But interspersed are execution orders, the purchase of guard dogs for Auschwitz, and movements that sound innocuous but were anything but. A February 2, 1943, entry lists a visit to the Sobibor death camp for “inspection of special commando”; the Times reports his visit was to include a demonstration of gassing, and 400 women and girls were reportedly brought to the camp from a nearby city for that purpose. The German Historical Institute has authenticated the diaries, and its director says that what appears to be "rather dry" is actually very valuable. "We get a better structural understanding of the last phase of the war," says Nikolaus Katzer. Himmler killed himself with a cyanide pill in May 1945. (A trove of personal documents revealed more about Himmler.)