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- After the Bunker: What We Know, and Why It Matters
Over the last eleven posts, I have retraced the final eleven days of Adolf Hitler’s life—from his 56th birthday in a burning Berlin to his final breath in a concrete bunker. We followed him and the people around him through paranoia, betrayal, fantasy, and finally, suicide. It’s a grim story, and a real one, built… Read more: After the Bunker: What We Know, and Why It Matters - Part 11: April 30, 1945 – Hitler’s Last Day
April 30, 1945, was Adolf Hitler’s last day alive. In the narrow corridors and concrete chambers of the Führerbunker, the end unfolded with a quiet, clinical certainty. Outside, Soviet forces had advanced to within a few hundred meters. The Reich was finished, Berlin was lost, and everyone inside the bunker knew it. Hitler spent the… Read more: Part 11: April 30, 1945 – Hitler’s Last Day - Part 10: April 29, 1945 – The Day Before the End
There was no silence in the bunker now. The shelling never stopped. The walls trembled. The air was a mix of smoke, sweat, and despair. Above ground, the Soviets had reached the Reichstag. Below, Hitler was making final arrangements—legal, personal, and emotional—for his death. The man who had once stood beside Hitler as his closest… Read more: Part 10: April 29, 1945 – The Day Before the End - Part 9: April 28, 1945 – Wedding Day
In the charred, flickering world beneath Berlin, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were married. It was the last ceremony of the Third Reich, conducted not in a church or grand hall, but in the cramped, concrete map room of the Führerbunker. Walter Wagner, a minor Nazi official, was called in to perform the brief proceedings.… Read more: Part 9: April 28, 1945 – Wedding Day - Part 8: April 27, 1945 – Rienzi
As a young man, Adolf Hitler attended a performance of Richard Wagner’s opera Rienzi with his friend August Kubizek, who later recalled how enraptured Hitler had been by the performance. After a long silence, Hitler led them to the Freinberg hill, clasped his hands, and “In grand, captivating images, he told me about his future… Read more: Part 8: April 27, 1945 – Rienzi
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