The Führerbunker

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    Hitlers Bunker

  • Hitler takes up residence in bunker

    The Bunker

  • The Red Army started the Battle of Berlin by attacking German front line positions on the rivers Oder and Neisse.

    Battle of Berlin

  • Soviet spearheads had broken through and the Germans were in full retreat.

    Soviet Spearheads

  • Hitler made his last trip to the surface and awarded Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.

    Hitler Youth

  • Hitler ordered Steiner to attack the northern flank of the encircling Soviet salient

    Soviet Propaganda

  • Hitler fell into a tearful rage when he realised that his plans of the day before were not going to be carried out.

  • Hitler appointed General of the Artillery, Helmuth Weidling as the commander of the Berlin Defense Area

    Helmuth Weidling

  • The Soviets had consolidated their investment of Berlin, and leading Soviet units were probing and penetrating the S-Bahn defensive ring.

    Soviets in Berlin

  • While flying over Berlin, von Greim was seriously wounded by Soviet anti-aircraft fire.

    Von Greim

  • Hitler learned that Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler had contacted Count Folke Bernadotte in Lübeck to offer Germany's surrender to the western Allies

    Heinrich Himmler

  • General Wenck reported to Keitel that his Twelfth Army had been forced back along the entire front.

    General Wenck

  • Hitler married Eva Braun in a small civil ceremony in a map room within the Führerbunker.

    Hitler and Eva Braun

  • Hitler shoots himself and Braun takes cyanide

    Hitlers dead, news report