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Hitler's Chancellery

Author : Ronald Pawly
Publisher : Crowood Press UK
ISBN 13 : 9781847970916
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Hitler's Chancellery written by Ronald Pawly and published by Crowood Press UK. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of the most iconic building of the Third Reich. Hitler's New State Chancellery was designed by Albert Speer specifically to embody the power and arrogance of the new Nazi regime. The dimensions and decoration of its state apartments were devised to instill awe in the visitor, and it was intended to be the first working model for Germania - a whole new capital city for the Thousand-Year Reich. But this book is much more than a catalogue of concrete, glass and marble. It tells the extraordinary story of the Nazi state, for which the Chancellery provided the ceremonial headquarters and the stage for some of its most dramatic moments. Albert Speer deliberately designed Hitler's palace to have 'ruin appeal', foreseeing future centuries when it remains would make as great an impression on the visitor to Germania as the Coliseum in Rome. Instead, it was completely destroyed after barely ten years that today the tourist can locate its very site only with difficulty. Ronald Pawly's book carries the reader on a time-machine trip into a grim past, within living memory, but utterly erased from the physical record.

From the Kaiserhof to the Reich Chancellery

Author : Joseph Goebbels
Publisher : Ostara Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781647645908
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book From the Kaiserhof to the Reich Chancellery written by Joseph Goebbels and published by Ostara Publications. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nazi propaganda minister Joseph's Goebbels diaries from January 1932 to May 1933 provide a first-hand chronicle of the tumultuous time which saw Adolf Hitler propelled from his civilian headquarters at the Kaiserhof Hotel into the office of Chancellor of Germany. The day-by-day entries provide riveting reading and reveal long-suppressed facts, such as: - How the Weimar "democracy" forced the Nazis into fighting elections while banning their newspapers and forbidding them to hold public meetings; - The campaign of terrorism and murder waged against the NSDAP by the communists; -The NSDAP's funding; -The clash with the socialist Strasserite wing of the party; -The political intrigues which eventually forced the establishment to offer the post of Chancellor to Hitler after three general elections in one year; -The burning of the Reichstag; - The Jewish declaration of war against Germany and the counter-boycott of Jewish shops in German, organized by the author; and much more. An essential and fascinating account of the Nazi road to power, first published in Germany in 1933, and then in English in 1938 under the title "My Part in Germany's Fight." This new edition has been completely reset and includes 18 appendices containing full English translations of a number articles by the author, taken from his oft-banned newspaper, Der Angriff and from speeches made at the time.

The Final Archives of the Führerbunker

Author : Paul Villatoux
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1612009050
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Final Archives of the Führerbunker written by Paul Villatoux and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected documents offering a look into the minds of the Third Reich’s leaders in their final days, and at Berlin following the end of World War II. In November 1945, two French officers secretly entered the Führerbunker, the air raid shelter near the Chancellery in Berlin. The bunker was the last home of Adolf Hitler; the background of the last months of his life and the war; where he married Eva Braun on April 29, 1945; and where he killed himself less than two days later. In the middle of a heap of furniture and broken objects, the two officers found hundreds of documents littering the ground. Among the documents that they retrieved were a dozen telegrams of historic importance that allow us to understand the spirit of the last leaders of the Third Reich as well as the events that took place between April 23 and 26, 1945. These and other documents are presented for the first time in this book, shown in their proper context with an expert commentary. “But although the building may have gone, troves of historic documents survived. Now, many have been published for the first time in this new visual history, an excellent guide to the horrendous final days, hours, and minutes of the Third Reich.” —Military History Matters

The Reich Chancellery and Fuhrerbunker Complex

Author : Steven Lehrer
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786477333
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book The Reich Chancellery and Fuhrerbunker Complex written by Steven Lehrer and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-04-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Germany's Nazi government initially made its primary headquarters in one of Berlin's oldest buildings, the Old Reich Chancellery. Unsatisfied with the building, Adolf Hitler commissioned Albert Speer to design and build a newer, grander structure, and his New Reich Chancellery was completed in early 1939. Hitler described his New Reich Chancellery and other Nazi buildings as his "words of stone," eternal monuments to the work that he and the Nazi party intended to perpetuate. Frequented by Hitler and his inner circle, the Chancellery witnessed their fanatical plans and was an architectural reflection of Hitler's megalomania. The Fuhrerbunker, built underneath the Chancellery, became the last refuge of a dying regime; it was here that Hitler retreated to order the destruction of Germany and ultimately to take his own life. This book is a virtual tour of the now demolished Chancellery and Fuhrerbunker. It covers the history of each structure, notes the architectural changes that Hitler made to suit his purposes, and describes the historical events that took place within each building's walls. Appendices contain a chronology of Reich Chancellors (1871-1945), a detailed list of renovations to the Chancellery, and a register of notable gatherings that took place in the Old Reich Chancellery prior to 1914. Texts of various speeches by Hitler are reproduced, along with a copy of his agreement to occupy Czechoslovakia, which was signed in the Reich Chancellery.

The Bunker

Author : James Preston O'Donnell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780553132489
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (324 download)

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Download or read book The Bunker written by James Preston O'Donnell and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New German Reichschancellery in Berlin, 1938-1945

Author : Ray R. Cowdery
Publisher : Victory Ww Two Pub Llc
ISBN 13 : 9780910667289
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (672 download)

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Book Synopsis The New German Reichschancellery in Berlin, 1938-1945 by : Ray R. Cowdery

Download or read book The New German Reichschancellery in Berlin, 1938-1945 written by Ray R. Cowdery and published by Victory Ww Two Pub Llc. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book carefully examines the New German Reichschancellery Professor Albert Speer designed and built in Berlin, like no ther book on the subject. With hundreds of crisp, full-color and black & white photographs and maps, ?Reichschancellery? shows readers this amazing German building during each phase of its construction and existence. Architect Albert Speer?s opportunity to design and build the New German Reichschancellery in 1938 was the professional commission of a lifetime. A huge park-like setting along the south side of an entire city block in the government quarter of Berlin was made available, and Speer was given a ?blank check? and instructed to create an ?impressive? structure. The results of his efforts were stunning. In just under one year he managed to remove all the old buildings from the site, bury a huge new bunker system and erect a magnificent State Chancellery that dwarfed similar government buildings in the capitals of other countries throughout Europe.No corners were cut and no simple construction techniques were hidden from view by decorative facades. The New Reichschancellery was very solidly built to the highest standards of German construction tradition, and clad in the finest quarried stone inside and out. Ceilings and walls were paneled in rare woods by German craftsmen while reknowned German sculptures, tapestries, hand knotted rugs and paintings were installed in rooms, hallways, galleries and even in stairwells. Hitler?s magnificent 4,200 square foot office was entered through the center door of five along one side of a single room measuring nearly 400 feet in length! Seventy-six months after Speer completed the New Reichschancellery, the Second World War in Europe was over. Speer?s magnificent building was badly damaged, but when compared to other lower quality and less historic structures in Berlin that were rebuilt, it was certainly ?rebuildable?. Almost at once however, with the acquiescence of the other Allies and in an almost unparalleled act of premeditated international vandalism, the Soviet occupiers of Berlin began the methodical destruction of every remnant of Hitler?s New Reichschancellery.

Adolf Hitler

Author : Philipp Bouhler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781503122895
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book Adolf Hitler written by Philipp Bouhler and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official biography of Adolf Hitler, issued by the German Foreign Office in Berlin, 1938. Written by the Head of the F�hrer Chancellery, and published under the famous Terramare imprint in 1938, this work was designed to provide the English-speaking world with a brief introduction to the life and political career of Adolf Hitler up to that year. Starting with Hitler's early life, it moves on to describe his war record and political struggle to become chancellor. Thereafter it moves on to describe the various internal political measures followed by the Hitler government-from racial matters to economic and social reformation, all undertaken at the specific instruction of the German leader. This view on Hitler and the development of peacetime National Socialist Germany is unique because it was presented from the German point of view, published as it was with the official sanction of the Third Reich government. The author: Reichsleiter Philipp Bouhler was famous in his own right. After a father of a blind, deaf, limbless, and severely retarded baby wrote to Hitler asking that his child be granted euthanasia (the so-called "Knauer Case"), Bouhler was tasked with establishing a legal euthanasia project for the terminally ill or the severely retarded, a program for which he was accused of "war crimes" after the war. Rather than face trial, Bouhler committed suicide in 1945. Ironically, euthanasia is now (2014) legal in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, and assisted suicide is legal in Switzerland, Germany, Albania, Colombia, Japan and in the US states of Washington, Oregon, Vermont, New Mexico and Montana. This edition has been completely reset and contains the entire original text and photographs. Contents Early Years Genesis of the Movement The Coup D'�tat Critical Days The Movement Advances From Victory to Victory Hitler in Power The Third Reich

Hitler at Home

Author : Despina Stratigakos
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300187602
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Hitler at Home written by Despina Stratigakos and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at Adolf Hitler’s residences and their role in constructing and promoting the dictator’s private persona both within Germany and abroad. Adolf Hitler’s makeover from rabble-rouser to statesman coincided with a series of dramatic home renovations he undertook during the mid-1930s. This provocative book exposes the dictator’s preoccupation with his private persona, which was shaped by the aesthetic and ideological management of his domestic architecture. Hitler’s bachelor life stirred rumors, and the Nazi regime relied on the dictator’s three dwellings—the Old Chancellery in Berlin, his apartment in Munich, and the Berghof, his mountain home on the Obersalzberg—to foster the myth of the Führer as a morally upstanding and refined man. Author Despina Stratigakos also reveals the previously untold story of Hitler’s interior designer, Gerdy Troost, through newly discovered archival sources. At the height of the Third Reich, media outlets around the world showcased Hitler’s homes to audiences eager for behind-the-scenes stories. After the war, fascination with Hitler’s domestic life continued as soldiers and journalists searched his dwellings for insights into his psychology. The book’s rich illustrations, many previously unpublished, offer readers a rare glimpse into the decisions involved in the making of Hitler’s homes and into the sheer power of the propaganda that influenced how the world saw him. “Inarguably the powder-keg title of the year.”—Mitchell Owen, Architectural Digest “A fascinating read, which reminds us that in Nazi Germany the architectural and the political can never be disentangled. Like his own confected image, Hitler’s buildings cannot be divorced from their odious political hinterland.”—Roger Moorhouse, Times

Hitler's First Hundred Days

Author : Peter Fritzsche
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198871120
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Hitler's First Hundred Days written by Peter Fritzsche and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of how Germans came to embrace the Third Reich.Germany in early 1933 was a country ravaged by years of economic depression and increasingly polarized between the extremes of left and right. Over the spring of that year, Germany was transformed from a republic, albeit a seriously faltering one, into a one-party dictatorship. In Hitler's First Hundred Days, award-winning historian PeterFritzsche examines the pivotal moments during this fateful period in which the Nazis apparently won over the majority of Germans to join them in their project to construct the Third Reich. Fritzsche scrutinizes the events of theperiod - the elections and mass arrests, the bonfires and gunfire, the patriotic rallies and anti-Jewish boycotts - to understand both the terrifying power that the National Socialists came to exert over ordinary Germans and the powerful appeal of the new era that they promised.

Blank invitation to dinner with Adolf Hitler at the Reich Chancellery

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Blank invitation to dinner with Adolf Hitler at the Reich Chancellery written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description: Blank invitation to dinner with Adolf Hitler at the Reich Chancellery, undated. 'Der Deutche Reichskanzler bittet _________ zum Abendessen'. Ort: Haus des Reichskanzlers. Anfahrt: WilhelmstraÃŸe 7 Antwort erbeten an die Prasidialkanzlei . Berlin W8, VoÃŸstraÃŸe Fernruf: A1 Jager 6191' = ''The German Reich Chancellor invites ___________ to dinner. Place: House of the Reich Chancellor. Entrance: WilhelmstraÃŸe 7 Reply requested to the office of the Fuhrer und Reich Chancellery. Berlin W8, VoÃŸstraÃŸe Telephone: A1 Jager 619' Looted from the Reich Chancellery in 1945.

Hitler and His Generals

Author : Harold C. Deutsch
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816657440
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Hitler and His Generals written by Harold C. Deutsch and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hitler and His Generals was first published in 1974. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The author, who told the story of second of four conspiratorial rounds in his earlier book The Conspiracy against Hitler in the Twilight War,describes here the situations and events leading up to the first round of conspiracy. The present volume deals with the virtual coup d'etat by which Hitler sought to establish ascendancy over the Wehrmacht early in 1938. The account focuses on sensational events centering about Hitler's successful efforts to oust Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg, the War Minister, and Colonel General Baron von Fritsch, the Army commander in chief, in order to consolidate control of the military in his own hands. Using as an excuse Blomberg's marriage to a woman with a discreditable past, he forced Blomberg's resignation. He accomplished Fritsch's resignation through charges of homosexuality which were trumped up by Himmler, Heydrich, and Goering. He then appointed Colonel General Walther von Brauchitsch, who was under personal obligation to him, as commander in chief. Through these moves, as Dr. Deutsch shows, Hitler closed the door to all means other than conspiracy for the active Opposition movement to express itself against his aggressive policies. The story of the first round of conspiracy will be the subject of another book by Professor Deutsch, to be published later.

Martin Bormann

Author : Volker Koop
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1473886953
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Martin Bormann written by Volker Koop and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born on 17 June 1900, Martin Ludwig Bormann became one of the most powerful and most feared men in the Third Reich. An obsessive bureaucrat, it was Bormann who helped steer Hitler’s apparatus of terror so effectively that he became the clandestine ruler of Nazi Germany. After joining the Nazi Party in 1927 Bormann rose through its ranks. Indeed, by July 1933 Bormann had maneuvered himself into the position where he became the Chief of Cabinet in the Office of the Deputy Führer, Rudolf Hess. In this role Bormann gradually consolidated his power base, so that when Hess carried out his infamous flight to the United Kingdom in 1941, Bormann stepped into his shoes. As the head of the Party Chancellery, Bormann duly took control of the Nazi Party. By the end of 1942, he was in effect Hitler’s deputy and his closest collaborator. With the Führer increasingly preoccupied with military matters, Hitler came to rely more and more on Bormann to handle Germany’s domestic affairs. On 12 April 1943, Bormann was appointed Personal Secretary to the Führer. Feared by ministers, Gauleiters, civil servants, judges and generals alike, Bormann identified strongly with Hitler’s ideas on racial politics, destruction of the Jews and forced labor and made himself indispensable as the Führer’s executioner. Cold as ice, he decided the fate of millions of people. In January 1945, with the Third Reich collapsing, Bormann returned to the Führerbunker with Hitler. Following Hitler’s suicide on 30 April, Bormann was named as Party Minister, thus officially confirming his rise to the top of the Party. Late the following day he fled from the bunker in an attempt to escape the encircling Red Army; his fate remaining a mystery for many years. In October 1946 he was found guilty in absentia by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg and sentenced to death. Drawing heavily on recently declassified documents and files, the historian and journalist Volker Koop reveals the full story of the most faithful member of Hitler’s inner circle, an individual who, whilst little known to the German people, became the second most powerful man in the Third Reich.

Hitler's New German Reichschancellery in Berlin, 1938-1945

Author : Ray R. Cowdery
Publisher : Usm
ISBN 13 : 9780910667128
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Hitler's New German Reichschancellery in Berlin, 1938-1945 written by Ray R. Cowdery and published by Usm. This book was released on 1987 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Escaping Hitler's Bunker

Author : Sjoerd J. de Boer
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1526792702
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Escaping Hitler's Bunker written by Sjoerd J. de Boer and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Soviet troops fought their way ever closer to the Reich Chancellery in the final days of the Third Reich, deep underground in Hitler’s bunker fateful decisions were being made. Hitler and some of those closest to him resolved to commit suicide, whilst others sought to try and escape. But who did manage to slip past the Russian soldiers and reach freedom? How did they escape, and what routes did they take through the ruined streets of Berlin? Equally, what became of those who escaped, where did they go, and what happened to those who did not get away? All of these questions are answered in this book. Following years of research in Berlin, the author has been able to identify the various groups and individuals that left the bunker and has traced the paths taken by those who escaped and those that perished. The final days in Hitler’s bunker are revealed in atmospheric detail, as the Red Army closed in and the inevitable end loomed menacingly nearer with the passing of every hour. Many notable persons, such as Bormann, Speer, Göring and Hanna Reitsch, went to say a last farewell to the Führer, while others, such as Goebbels, prepared themselves for suicide rather than being taken prisoner by the Russians. By using detailed maps showing the escape routes, first-hand testimony from those who survived, photographs of the devastated German capital in 1945, as well as images of the various routes as they can be followed through Berlin today, the author explores the last moments of the Third Reich in startling clarity.

The Secretary

Author : Jochen von Lang
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secretary written by Jochen von Lang and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1979 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Martin Bormann (17 June 1900? 2 May 1945) was a prominent Nazi official. He became head of the Party Chancellery (Parteikanzlei) and private secretary to Adolf Hitler. He was almost always at his Führer's side. Hitler typically did not issue written orders, but gave them orally at meetings or in phone conversations; he also had Bormann convey orders. He gained Hitler's trust and derived immense power within the Third Reich by using his position to control the flow of information and access to Hitler. Bormann earned many enemies, including Heinrich Himmler."--Wikipedia.

Guarding Hitler

Author : Mark Felton
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 147383838X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Guarding Hitler written by Mark Felton and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-08-04 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A hive of interesting facts and almost unbelievable stories about Adolf Hitler . . . Well worth a look. Well worth a read.” —War History Online Based on intelligence documents, personal testimonies, memoirs, and official histories, including material only declassified in 2010, Guarding Hitler provides the reader with a fascinating inside look at the secret world of Hitler’s security and domestic arrangements. The book focuses in particular on both the official and private life of Hitler during the latter part of the war, at the Wolf’s Lair at Rastenburg, and Hitler’s private residence at Berchtesgaden, the Berghof. Guarding Hitler manages to offer fresh insights into the life and routine of the Führer, and most importantly, the often indiscreet opinions, observations, and activities of the “little people” who surrounded Hitler but whose stories have been overshadowed by the great affairs of state. It covers not only the plots against Hitler’s life but the way security developed as a result. His use of “doubles” is examined as is security while traveling by land or air. As little has been written about the security and domestic life of Adolf Hitler, Guarding Hitler allows the reader to delve deeper into this previously overlooked aspect of the world’s most infamous man. “A fascinating view into the close world Hitler inhabited and which shaped his life and decisions.” —Fire Reviews

In Hitler's Bunker

Author : Armin Lehmann
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1780573022
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book In Hitler's Bunker written by Armin Lehmann and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last months of Hitler's Berlin, an estimated 30,000 German teenagers perished defending their beloved Fhrer in the Russian onslaught. Armin Lehmann was one of the few boy soldiers who escaped the bloodbath. Like every other member of the Hitler Youth, Armin would have given his life gladly for his leader, but he was not to be sacrificed to the enemy at the gate. Instead, he was chosen to serve in the German High Command's bunker complex. It was a stroke of fate that brought him into the company of the most notorious Nazis of Hitler's hated Reich, including Martin Bormann, Goebbels and, of course, the Fhrer himself. When Hitler greeted Armin, the 16-year-old boy knew he had been granted a unique part in history.In Hitler's Bunker is Armin's eyewitness account of the Nazi apocalypse. It is also the story of how his unquestioning fanaticism won him that role in the final act of the Third Reich. It takes us back to his boyhood and the brutal SS father who instilled the Nazi's hateful creed in his son. It follows Armin's odyssey through the ranks of the Hitler Youth and shares his teenage anguish over his doomed love for a beautiful German nurse. It is the story of Armin's gradual realisation of the full horror of what he had been part of, and recounts his quest for the truth, which took him in the footsteps of Mahatma Ghandi and to a meeting with Albert Schweitzer, the missionary and theologian. Above all, In Hitler's Bunker is the story of how one man, instead of running away from his past, confronted it and found peace, at last.