![]() As soon as the mid-morning air attacks began, Hitler got up and dressed. Such sleep as he got in the last month appears to have been between eight and eleven o'clock in the morning. Hitler had been living in the bunker for some time. The incessant air-raids, the knowledge that the Russians were now in the city, nervous exhaustion, fear, and despair produced a tension bordering on hysteria, which was heightened by proximity to a man whose changes of mood were not only unpredictable but affected the lives of all those in the shelter. The physical atmosphere of the bunker was oppressive, but this was nothing compared to the pressure of the psychological atmosphere. commandant of the Chancellery, and his staff. One housed Bormann, his staff and the various Service officers another Mohnke, the S.S. Frau Goebbels, who insisted on remaining with her husband, together with her six children, occupied four rooms on the floor above, where the kitchen, servants' quarters and dining-hall were also to be found. A map-room used for small conferences, a telephone exchange, a power-house, and guard rooms took up most of the rest of the space, but there were two rooms for Goebbels (formerly occupied by Morell) and two for Stumpfegger, Brandt's successor as Hitler's surgeon. Eva had a bed-sitting-room, a bathroom, and a dressing-room Hitler a bedroom and a study, the sole decoration in which was the portrait of Frederick the Great. A suite of six rooms was set aside for Hitler and Eva Braun. ![]() Half of this passage was closed by a partition and used for the daily conferences. It was divided into eighteen small rooms grouped on either side of a central passageway. The lower of the storeys formed the Fuhrerbunker. The Chancellery air raid shelter, in which the events of 22 April had taken place, was buried fifty feet beneath the ground, and built in two storeys covered with a massive canopy of reinforced concrete. The setting in which Hitler played out the last scene of all was well suited to the end of so strange a history. On May 2, General Helmuth Weidling declared the capitulation ofīerlin, whereupon the Red Army discovered and took possession of the now Night from the 1st to the 2nd of May the remaining inmates left theīunker. Franz Schädle,Ĭhief of the commando commando, also took refuge in the bunker. Wilhelm Burgdorf, were shot in the bunkers' card room. The General Staff of the Army, and the last military commander-in-chief, Goebbels took killed themselves just outside the bunkers' emergency exit after theirĬhildren had probably been killed in their sleeping room in the Vorbunkerīy the hand of Magda Goebbels with Zyankali. The following day on May 1, both Joseph and Magda Of the emergency exit of the bunker in the garden of the New Their corpses were poured over with gasoline and burned in front They took their lives in Hitler's living and working space in theīunker. OnĪpHitler wrote his political and personal testament in theīunker thereafter, he and Eva Braun married. ![]() Site of the bunker and as it appears today during my 2021 class trip with my Bavarian International School students. Whilst Goebbels lived in the mainīunker, his wife and six children lived in the Vorbunker. On April 22, Joseph and Magda Goebbelsįollowed with their six children. From March 7, 1945, Eva BraunĪlso lived permanently in the bunker and, beside Hitler's room, moved Of the next few weeks, Hitler also transferred all his activities to theīunker, which is why his staff, adjutants, commando command and Used until then only to sleep and during the air raids. Hitler then moved to the commandant bunkers, which he had The most severe air attack on Berlin during the war on February 3, 1945. Reichskanzlei which were destroyed during On January 16, 1945, Hitler returned to Berlin and moved into his The air-raid shelterīecame the pre-bunker of the new main bunker, which was begun in Aprilġ944. Shelter, which had a much stronger construction. The construction of another bunker connected to the air-raid Reichskanzlei's garden, which had an air-raid shelter which was to serve Hitler as a private bunker. It was ultimately here were Hitler committed suicide.Īugust 1935 to January 1936 a festive hall was erected in the The Führerbunker is the name given to two of the underground air-raid shelters in Berlin that served as the Hitler's headquarters during the last few weeks of the Nazi regime.
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