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10 Historical Facts About Adolf Hitler’s Last Days and Death

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1. hitler’s last days were spent in his underground bunker.

Historical Facts About Adolf Hitler's Last Days and Death

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2. Adolf Hitler committed suicide

3. hitler’s body was then taken outside and burned in the garden.

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 4. His last meal was spaghetti with a raisin and cabbage salad

5. he tested his cyanide on his dog first , 6. hitler’s remains were discovered by the soviets.

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7. Hitler was not alone in the bunker

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8. After Hitler’s death other Nazi officials were left to beg for mercy

9. measures were taken to ensure that his body wouldn’t become a shrine, 10. there are different conspiracy theories that argue hitler managed to get away.

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The Final Days of The Third Reich and The Death of Adolf Hitler

Written by Tom Matthews

Last Updated on 12th November 2020

On the 12th April 1945 , President Franklin Roosevelt died at his home in Warm Springs, Georgia. Upon hearing the news, the German hierarchy celebrated, with Joseph Goebbels commenting, “ This is the turning point. ” The following day, Hitler himself was said to have reassured his nation’s battered troops on the Eastern Front that relief was imminent. Berlin, he assured them, would remain German. And Vienna – which the Russians had seized only that day – would soon be part of the Fatherland again…

In reality, however, this perfectly illustrated the delusion with which the war effort continued to be held by the Nazi high command. Indeed, in the last 24 hours alone, American troops had captured two heavy-water piles at Stadtilm on the river Ilm, which put pay to any chance of the  Germans developing an atomic bomb  in the immediate months ahead.

Two days later, on the 15th April, the German Army launched a counterattack against the Americans near Uelzen, in an effort to link up with their compatriots in the battle for Berlin. The operation failed and the Americans, who had revealingly named the battle  Operation Kaput , repelled Hitler’s army with a brutal combination of artillery, tanks and phosphorus weapons.

The end of World War Two was nigh, and so began the final days of the Nazis . In the early hours of the very next day, the 16th April 1945, the message was delivered in no uncertain terms. At 3am, the Soviets began their offensive against Berlin, with no fewer than 20 armies, 2.5 million soldiers and 40,000 mortars and field guns.  Hitler’s position was hopeless . And now, finally, he realized it.

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Hitler’s Last Birthday – 20th April 1945

Inside the Führer’s headquarters – a deep bunker buried 50 feet below the Reich Chancellery – the attack was met with an air of resignation. Nothing could be done to prevent the Soviet advance and so it was, four days later, on the 20th April, that the leaders of Hitler’s regime met for the last time, among naked light bulbs, a failing water supply and the rancid smell of human waste. It was Hitler’s birthday.

The ‘celebration’ was moved from the bunker to the larger rooms of the New Reich Chancellery, where most of the guests were anxious for the gathering to end. Indeed,  the Red Army was on the verge of encircling Berlin  and escape routes were shrinking by the hour. Yet Hitler appeared determined to drag out the ceremony. He even emerged into the daylight to encourage and decorate a collection of battle-weary soldiers and members of the Hitler Youth. With all his strength, he concluded with an, “Heil euch!” There was no response, bar the rumbling of not-so-distant artillery.

It should be noted, however, that Hitler’s lethargy was nothing new. In fact, he wasn’t a well man. His pasty complexion was now combined with puffy features. Heavy bags weighed down on his bloodshot eyes, while his unsteady gait and the permanent trembling of his left hand almost gave the impression that the frailties were for dramatic effect. This wasn’t the case. Indeed, contemporary analysis suggests  he was likely to be suffering from Parkinson’s Disease .

The following morning, the 21st, Hitler was informed that Russian artillery was now being fired into the center of Berlin. Despite the inevitability of it all, Hitler still couldn’t believe the Red Army had arrived so quickly and his reaction was typical of the preceding days, with the blame for Nazi failings being placed squarely at the feet of his cowardly generals. He frequently became indignant, while claiming he had been betrayed by those in whom he had placed his trust.

The first such act of ‘betrayal’ began on the 22nd, when  Heinrich Himmler   attempted, unsuccessfully, to negotiate Germany’s terms of surrender with the Western Allies, excluding Russia. The second, played out on the 23rd, occurred when  Hermann Göring , Hitler’s head of the Luftwaffe, sent his Führer a telegram proposing he assume full control of Germany. “If no reply is received by ten o’clock tonight,” Göring added, “I shall take it for granted that you have lost your freedom of action.” A seething Hitler immediately dismissed his one-time confidante and ordered his arrest on the grounds of high treason.

Two days later, on the 25th, Hitler also ordered the arrest of  General Karl Weilding , a commander of a Panzer corps. Accused of desertion, Weilding was actually continuing to fight on the outskirts of Berlin. As such, and having been summoned to the bunker, Weilding quickly protested his innocence, the result of which was his appointment to  ‘Battle Commandant’ of Berlin .

It was all proof, if proof were needed, that by late April Hitler’s thought process was as confused and chaotic as Berlin itself. Indeed, each morning, makeshift units were sent out to reinforce street barricades and trenches, or build shelters. Fires glowed and factories, workshops and alike ceased operations. Using electricity was forbidden – violators were punished by death. And talk of effective suicide techniques pervaded among the people.

Unsurprisingly, this talk wasn’t limited to the general populace. Inside Hitler’s bunker, the Führer himself seemed oddly calm and melancholy, and spoke of death as a release.  All hope was gone . And following the perceived betrayal by both Göring and Himmler, Hitler’s world, his vision and his dream finally died, along with the soldiers he continued to order into futile and hopeless battles.

Adolf Hitler’s Wife

The so-called betrayals and the overall hopelessness of the situation convinced Hitler once and for all that he needed to bring things to an end.  Late in the evening of the 28th April, Hitler married his long-term mistress, Eva Braun , in a hastily prepared ceremony in a small map room, where Goebbels and Martin Bormann (head of the Party Chancellery and Hitler’s private secretary) bore witness. Having declared themselves of pure Aryan descent and free of any hereditary disease, Hitler and Braun were pronounced husband and wife. They remained so for less than 40 hours. Hitler’s last days were upon him.

On the 29th April, with the Russians no more than 24 hours from securing complete control of Berlin, Hitler ordered that his German Shephard, Blondi, be poisoned. The thought of his beloved companion falling into Russian hands was insufferable, but it was also important to test the effectiveness of the cyanide capsules that had been distributed around the bunker. Upon consumption, Blondi died instantly. Her five puppies were also shot.

At 5am on the 30th April, the bunker residents were woken by artillery fire. Within the hour, Hitler, who was sat bleary eyed in a dressing gown and slippers, was informed they were just a few hours from defeat. At around 2pm, Hitler had his last meal.  “ The time has come, ”  he said as he rose,  “ it’s all over. ”  Goebbels, who had long insisted Hitler remain in Berlin, now tried to convince his Führer to leave the city. Hitler refused, before bidding him farewell.

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The Death of Adolf Hitler

Further goodbyes followed, until Hitler finally returned to his private rooms. A short while later he walked into the large conference room wearing a uniform jacket and his Iron Cross. Braun was at his side. A congregation had gathered, with whom Hitler exchanged a few words. A tearful  Magda Goebbels pleaded with him to flee the city , but her Führer refused. This rebuttal, when coupled with her husband’s refusal to leave Hitler’s side, ensured the wife of the Nazi’s brilliant propaganda minister would soon write her own chapter in the regime’s deplorable legacy.

But for now, it was only Hitler and Braun who retired to his quarters. At this point accounts vary, but the general consensus is that one shot was fired at about 3:30am. Shortly afterwards, Heinz Linge, Hitler’s aide, went into the room to the smell of gunpowder, smoke and bitter almonds (often associated with the scent of cyanide). Bormann and Otto Günche, a Major in the SS, also entered.  They found Hitler slumped on his sofa with his eyes open and a coin-sized hole in his right temple . Blood ran down his cheek and a Walther pistol lay on the floor. Eva Braun was next to him. Wearing a blue dress, her knees were drawn into her chest and her lips were pressed tightly together. Her pistol, which hadn’t been fired, sat on the table in front of them.

It has since been theorized that Hitler also bit into a cyanide capsule at the exact moment he pulled the trigger. It’s also been suggested that, in fact, he shot himself in the mouth. There’s even an account that claims he took the poison before a third person, acting on orders, shot him. We may never know beyond reasonable doubt how exactly the death of Adolf Hitler occurred.

But what is certain is that Hitler and Braun were quickly wrapped in blankets and taken outside.  It had been the Führer’s express wish to be burned  in order to avoid the posthumous indignity that befell Italy’s Benito Mussolini, whose body had been dragged through the streets, kicked and spat on, before being hung from the feet. Once outdoors and despite being under repeated gunfire, Bormann pulled the blanket from Hitler’s face. Using ten canisters of petrol, they doused the corpses before using a makeshift torch to ignite the pyre. Following one last salute, they retreated into the bunker.

Sadly, the death of Adolf Hitler did little to prevent further tragedy. On the evening of 1st May, Magda Goebbels put her six children to bed, having first given them sleeping potion and possibly morphine. Then, with the help of a doctor, she put drops of hydrogen cyanide down their throats. All died instantly, with only the eldest, 12-year old Helga, putting up a struggle. Later that day, both Joseph and Magda Goebbels took their own lives.

A week later, in the last days of the Third Reich, on the 8th May, Germany surrendered unconditionally. Hitler’s Thousand Year Reich had lasted less than 13 years – the last six of which saw loss of life on an appalling scale. Indeed, by the end of World War Two, 60 million people had died, including 12 million innocent men, women and children who perished at the hands of Hitler’s policy of systematic extermination.

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Was Hitler Mad?

Nearly 70 years after Adolf Hitler’s death, it’s as difficult as ever to succinctly evaluate the impact of his life and reign. However,  there’s little doubt that Hitler’s vision included no civilised or humanitarian ideas . This stood in contrast to previous powers who once ruled the world. From the Roman Empire to the British, there was always some form of ideology that referenced a better, brighter, peaceful future. These ideals simply weren’t in keeping with Hitler’s thirst for power.

Instead, Hitler pursued a policy of suppression, enslavement and racial cleansing, the results of which represent one of the saddest, depraved and most horrifying chapters in human history. Yet  in Hitler’s eyes the war was solely the fault of Jewish statesmen or those who worked in Jewish interests . Even at the end he commented, “[The Jews are] the real guilty party in this murderous struggle,” before continuing, “… this time the real culprits would have to pay for their guilt even though by more humane means than war.” These ‘humane’ means were the gas chambers.

Moreover, it was the lengths he went to in order to justify his thesis that are particularly warped. Drawing on Darwin’s survival of the fittest, Hitler commented in 1942, “ Monkeys put to death any members of their community who show a desire to live apart. And what applies to apes, applies to men, too, at a higher level. ”

It’s also clear that  Hitler knew only too well that he had set in motion a series of irreversible events . His policies and decisions, as well as those of his closest confidantes, had ensured all bridges with the rest of the world had been burnt. Alarmingly, it’s generally agreed that Hitler saw the awful shock waves he had created as a positive achievement. The terrible consequences didn’t matter.

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6. It wasn’t just alcohol that people turned to in order to numb the pain – drugs were some survivors’ crutch of choice as they faced almost certain death

Recent research has revealed how Nazi soldiers went into battle fueled not just by their belief in their Fuhrer’s warped philosophy. And nowhere was this more the case than in the Bunker, where secretaries and lowly aides were required to stay awake and alert almost constantly. As supplies of proper drugs fell as the Reich’s enemies encircled Berlin, those left in the Bunker took whatever they could get their hands on. One doctor who visited the Bunker to deliver supplies noted that it was like a scene out of hell with people lying everywhere, in a trance or knocked out.

Ironically, just about the only person who wasn’t on some kind of drug high during those 105 days in the Bunker was Hitler himself. For years he had been prescribed opiates by his personal physician, Dr Morell. In April 1945, he realized he had become addicted to them. He reputedly summoned his doctor and screamed: “You have been giving me opiates the whole time! Get out of the bunker and leave me alone!” Dr Morell did leave, taking his drugs with him. So it’s possible that, far from being high, the Fuhrer was actually suffering from withdrawal symptoms while underground.

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16 Facts of the Last Days of the Third Reich in Hitler&#8217;s Bunker

5. Hitler came to see suicide as the only way out, and he wasn’t the only one to take his own life in the Berlin Bunker

It’s estimated that as many as 7,000 people killed themselves in Berlin alone in 1945. The figure could be much higher, however, as many suicides were simply not reported. One suicide report remains certain: Adolf Hitler himself. The Fuhrer famously shot himself in the Bunker, dying alongside his new wife, just hours after getting married. But Hitler wasn’t the only person to die in the Bunker. Even when the outcome of the war wasn’t certain, both Hitler and Goebbels made it clear to the German people that suicide was preferable to being captured. And lots of people heeded their advice.

Goebbels and his wife committed suicide, right after killing their children. As with Hitler, they ordered that their bodies be burned immediately so that they would not become trophies of the Red Army. Similarly, Germany Army generals Wilhelm Burgdorf and Hans Kreb both shot themselves in the head with their service pistols in the Bunker. While there is no exact figure on the number who died by their own hands in the Bunker, many eyewitness accounts allude to a dozen, maybe more, such deaths in the closing days of April 1945, many out of desperation as well as fanaticism.

16 Facts of the Last Days of the Third Reich in Hitler&#8217;s Bunker

4. At the very end, Hitler gathered his loyal staff and released them from their oath to him, even if there was no way out

When it became clear that all was lost, Hitler resigned himself to his fate. Before he did so, he explicitly freed his staff from their oath of duty to him. Up until this point, they had all vowed to die before leaving their leader. This meant that his secretaries, as well as other staff such as his young couriers or radio operators, were free to leave. For instance, Heinz Linge was given permission to leave the Bunker by Hitler himself – but only after he had performed one last duty, guarding the Fuhrer’s bedroom while he committed suicide and then burning his body afterwards.

In her memoirs, Erna Flegel, who served as Hitler’s nurse in the Bunker, revealed that the Fuhrer personally thanked and said goodbye to his staff on the evening of April 28, 1945. He even handed them all cyanide capsules, half-joking that he wished he could give them nicer gifts. That evening, he would kill himself. The following morning, the staff were advised that they were free from their oaths to the Fuhrer and the Nazi Reich and could leave the Bunker – even if few dared to venture above ground, where the feared Red Army were taking Berlin street by street.

16 Facts of the Last Days of the Third Reich in Hitler&#8217;s Bunker

3. Not everyone tried to escape – some preferred to take their chances below ground than run the risk of facing the Red Army on the street of Berlin

It wasn’t just the secretaries and typists who were allowed to leave the Bunker. One of Hitler’s final orders had been to give permission for German soldiers to try and break out of Berlin, on the proviso, of course, that they carry on fighting. Under Wilhelm Mohnke, the remaining troops were divided into ten groups, each escaping on a different day. Gunther Schwagermann, adjutant to Josef Goebbels, was one of those who made it out only to be captured by advancing American troops. Martin Bormann also got out but was killed by Soviet soldiers a few streets away.

The idea that Hitler somehow also managed to escape not only the Bunker but also war-torn Germany, right under the noses of the Soviet soldiers, emerged soon after the end of the war. After all, several high-ranking Nazis did make it out of Germany after 1945. However, the accounts of witnesses, most notably of those people who were in there with him at the very end, plus the fact that dental remains found on a corpse half-buried at the entrance to the Bunker matched Hitler’s own dental records, suggests it’s almost certain the dictator never made it out alive.

16 Facts of the Last Days of the Third Reich in Hitler&#8217;s Bunker

2. When the end came, the first Soviet troops in the Bunker behaved respectfully – and were more interested in the food than the young female secretaries

According to Antony Beevor, at least 100,000 German women were raped in Berlin during the Soviet invasion. Of these an estimated 10,000 died, many of them committing suicide out of shame or from the trauma. Small wonder then that the few remaining people holed up in the Bunker at the very end of April 1945 were terrified of what was in store for them. According to Hitler’s nurse Erna Flegel, there were just ‘six or seven’ people, including herself, below ground when the Russians took Berlin. Those who hadn’t tried to escape had simply killed themselves.

Despite their fears, the Russians taking the Bunker was apparently a calm event. Speaking to Allied interrogators in 1945, Frau Flegel explained that the call came on May 2nd; a nurse above ground telephoned down to inform them that the Russians had arrived. Soon after, a handful of Soviet troops “had a look around” and were far more interested in the food supplies they found than in the women. Indeed, the nurse acknowledged that these soldiers treated her and her fellow survivors “very humanely”, even advising her to lock the Bunker door after them when they left.

16 Facts of the Last Days of the Third Reich in Hitler&#8217;s Bunker

1. To keep it from being turned into a sick neo-Nazi shrine, all traces of Hitler’s Bunker have been destroyed over the years

Even the Soviet Union had no desire to celebrate their victory by turning the Bunker into a tourist attraction. Shortly after the end of the war, the underground complex was sealed up and the vast Chancellery complex above demolished completely. Then, in the 1980s, the East German regime began work on an apartment block close to the site. Workers opened up the underground bunkers again and then completely destroyed them. At last, all traces of the Nazi past had been removed from this infamous corner of Berlin.

It was only in 2006 that the Berlin authorities actually confirmed that the nondescript parking lot sits on the spot where Hitler killed himself and brought the darkest period of German history to an end. As well as the barest of historical information, the low-key noticeboard also includes a diagram of the layout of the Bunker to give an impression of just how claustrophobic and depressing it was down there in the spring of 1945. Nowadays, the Holocaust Memorial, just a short walk away, attracts far more visitors than the site of the Bunker.

Where did we find this stuff? Here are our sources:

“An orgy of denial in Hitler’s bunker.” The Sydney Morning Herald, May 2003.

“The Brief Luxurious Life of Adolf Hitler, 50 Feet Below Berlin.” Time Magazine.

“Eva Braun: The Lover Germany Never Knew Hitler Had.” The Local Germany, April 2017

“Goebbels’ secretary was instructed to fuel Hitler’s bunker with booze as Berlin fell.” Deccan Chronicle, August 2017.

“The Very Drugged Nazis.” The New York Review, March 2017.

“Hitler’s last 24 hours: I want to be a beautiful corpse, said Eva amid a frenzy of sex and drinking.” Daily Mail, April 2015.

“‘His authority was extraordinary. He was charming’ – Hitler’s nurse on his final hours.” The Guardian, May 2005.

“How Hitler spent his last days.” Alex Duval Smith, The Guardian, March 2005.

“Rare Interviews With Hitler’s Inner Circle Reveal What Truly Happened On ‘The Day Hitler Died’.” The Smithsonian Magazine, November 2015.

“Adolf Hitler suicide 70 years on: what became of the Nazi leader’s bunker?” The Telegraph, April 2015.

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Bruno Ganz as Adolf Hitler outside his bunker in the film Downfall

The Hitler parody videos began proliferating around 2006, a couple of years after the release of “Downfall,” Oliver Hirschbiegel’s film about Hitler’s final days in Berlin. In the movie’s climactic scene, Hitler rants in his bunker while generals and adjutants look on in horror. In the parodies, alternate subtitles were inserted, to absurd effect. Amy Davidson Sorkin surveyed the genre in a 2010 New Yorker piece , and the meme is still going strong a decade later. Recent contributions include “Hitler Reacts to the iPhone 12 Pro,” “Hitler Reacts to the NVIDIA GeForce,” “Hitler Reacts to Being in Quarantine,” and, in recent days, a series of videos in which Hitler reacts to the 2020 Presidential election, spouting Trumpian lines. In one , the Führer screams, “Count all the votes? How dare they to do this to me. Of course I can’t win if they count all the votes.” When a secretary in the corridor outside comforts her distressed colleague, she says, “Don’t cry, Jared. Dictators still love him.”

Comparisons between Trump and Hitler ring false on many levels, as I argued at the end of a 2018 article about recent biographies of the dictator. Although the soon-to-be-ex-President has done staggering damage to American institutions, he has failed to bring about the kind of wholesale destruction of democratic process that Hitler accomplished in a few weeks in 1933, not to mention the immeasurable horrors that followed. Nevertheless, the occasion of Trump’s defeat permits a certain amount of historical license. It might be argued that, although Hitler at the height of his power was a phenomenon without parallel in modern history, what he became—the cornered man in the bunker—was a psychologically commonplace creature. The spectacle of a power-hungry narcissist receiving his comeuppance is irresistible, and it has played out innumerable times in history and fiction.

Hirschbiegel’s film is based on a 2002 book by Joachim Fest, and both works have the same title in German: “Der Untergang.” That word has long been commonplace in literature about Hitler’s final days. The second volume of Volker Ullrich’s biography of Hitler, which has just been translated into English , is subtitled “Die Jahre des Untergangs, 1939–1945.” The usual translation is “downfall,” although the various implications of the word—literally, “going-under”—are difficult to capture in English. In some contexts, Untergang simply means descent: a sunset is a Sonnenuntergang . But it carries connotations of decline, dissolution, or destruction. Oswald Spengler’s famous book about the decline of the West is titled “ Der Untergang des Abendlandes .” Richard Wagner’s anti-Semitic essay “Jewishness in Music” ends with the word Untergang —the composer’s dream of a day when Jews will disappear from the earth, whether through assimilation or through some other means. Untergang can also be a state of transition or of spiritual transformation. In Nietzsche’s “ Thus Spoke Zarathustra ,” the title character undertakes an Untergang , a going-under into the worldly realm.

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In the context of Hitler, the scene of Untergang gives comforting moral closure to a story of limitless horror. No matter how high the dictator might have risen, the fable suggests, he was destined to fall in the end. History supplies no such neat ending in the case of other genocidal dictators, such as Stalin and Mao, both of whom died of natural causes. The endless fixation on Hitler’s last days therefore offers a too-easy narrative gratification: the devil is dispatched to hell, as in “Don Giovanni.” Moreover, the replaying of Hitler’s Untergang compensates for the fetishistic fascination with Nazi iconography that is present all through contemporary culture. The publishing industry continues to exploit Hitler’s design aesthetic—Gothic type, black-white-red color schemes, swastikas—to sell books. (Knopf’s edition of the Ullrich biography, expertly translated by Jefferson Chase, departs from the pattern, going for hazard yellow.)

It is widely assumed that Hirschbiegel gives a reasonably faithful idea of what life in the bunker was like. Indeed, the art direction for “Downfall” was meticulously researched, and Bruno Ganz’s performance as Hitler may be the most eerily believable portrayal of the dictator on film: spittle-spewing rants are balanced against superficially courtly gestures and a show of soldierly devotion to the task at hand. But the scene that spawned a thousand YouTube parodies—one in which the dictator screams at his military leaders, denounces the entire German nation as a pack of cowards, and announces that he will commit suicide rather than flee Berlin—is based, in part, on problematic sources.

The occasion was a three-hour briefing that took place in the map room at the bunker on the afternoon of April 22nd, eight days before Hitler’s suicide. The Red Army had reached the outskirts of Berlin, and Hitler was clinging to the idea that a mostly fictional combat group under the command of the S.S. general Felix Steiner could push the Russians back. When Hitler was told that no counterattack had taken place, he apparently exploded in rage, firing accusations in every direction and announcing that the war was lost. Hugh Trevor-Roper, in his 1947 book, “ The Last Days of Hitler ,” wove together various first-hand testimonies, making clear that they contradict one another to some degree. Ian Kershaw, in the second volume of his near-definitive Hitler biography, is similarly cautious, employing an even wider range of sources.

Fest’s “Der Untergang”—translated as “ Inside Hitler’s Bunker ”—draws on material that began emerging from Soviet archives in the nineteen-nineties, and that eventually received international publication in a curious document known as “ The Hitler Book .” Researchers for the Soviet secret police prepared this narrative of Hitler’s collapse in the late nineteen-forties, interweaving the testimony of two Hitler adjutants, Otto Günsche and Heinz Linge, who had been captured by the Red Army and interrogated at length. Much of what they recalled can be corroborated, but some of the quotations attributed to Hitler smack of a nineteenth-century novel: “The war is lost! But, gentlemen, if you believe that I will leave Berlin, you are sorely mistaken! I’d rather put a bullet through my head.” Fittingly, that dialogue went straight into Hirschbiegel’s film, along with a theatrical detail about Hitler throwing colored pencils across a map.

The most curious thing about “The Hitler Book” is that it was intended for a single reader: Joseph Stalin. The Soviet leader had ordered the N.K.V.D. to gather as much information as it could about Hitler’s last days, partly in order to make sure that the Führer was actually dead, although Stalin was generally fascinated by his most powerful and ruthless rival. “The Hitler Book” allowed Stalin to enjoy his own private staging of the Untergang —a lavishly detailed chronicle of Hitler’s psychological implosion, under the pressure of the invincible Red Army.

Other accounts convey a more complex picture of that April 22nd meeting. Gerhard Herrgesell, a stenographer, told American interrogators that Hitler was “generally composed,” even if his face became flushed and he paced about. In Herrgesell’s telling, it was the generals, especially Wilhelm Keitel and Alfred Jodl, who grew most heated, as they declared themselves “violently opposed” to Hitler’s plan to perish in Berlin, preferring that he go elsewhere and continue the fight. “Keitel spoke to him in really sharp terms,” Herrgesell recalled. These efforts at persuasion had some effect. Another military officer, Bernd von Loringhoven, reported that by the end of the day Hitler had overcome a condition of “temporary weakness” and committed himself again to the defense of Berlin.

The sequence of events that emerges from Kershaw’s meticulous reconstruction—elaborated in his book “ The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1944–1945 ”—is, in a way, even more unsettling than that of an all-powerful dictator plunging into dejection as his followers watch aghast. Here, the faltering dictator is propped up and reinvigorated by his underlings. A crucial component of Kershaw’s portrait of Nazi Germany is his concept of “working toward the Führer,” which describes how members of the Nazi hierarchy vied with each other to realize Hitler’s vision, even in the absence of detailed orders. At the end, “working toward the Führer” involved manhandling the Führer himself back into his mythic role. One can hardly ask for a clearer demonstration of how cults of personality feed as much upon the aspirations of their members as upon the ambitions of their leaders.

Ullrich, in the newly translated second volume of his Hitler biography, includes the debatable “bullet in the head” quotation but otherwise does justice to the tensions of the scene. Although Kershaw’s two volumes are probably destined to remain the definitive work on Hitler, Ullrich delivers a persuasive, all-too-timely portrait of a man whose undeniable political charisma was inseparable from his instinct for domination and destruction. The final paragraph contains a dark assessment of Hitler’s legacy: “If his life and career teaches us anything, it is how quickly democracy can be prised from its hinges when political institutions fail and civilizing forces in society are too weak to combat the lure of authoritarianism.”

Clear-eyed American readers may conclude that all those swastika-emblazoned, Gothic-type, black-white-and-red books have taught us exactly nothing about the fragility of democracy. Indeed, the pervasiveness of the Sonderweg school of storytelling—the idea that Germany was somehow genetically predisposed to follow a “special path” toward Nazism, dictatorship, and genocide—may have blinded us to our own anti-democratic drift. In 1935, Sinclair Lewis imagined a form of American Fascism in his novel “ It Can’t Happen Here .” Crucial to the delusion that it can’t happen here is the conviction that it could only have happened there . Now German historians are ending their books on Nazism with thinly veiled references to an American Untergang .

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When Hitler solidified his plan to exterminate Jews – and why it matters 75 years later

Lorraine Boissoneault

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Before the start of World War II, around 9.5 million Jewish people lived in Europe . By the time the war ended, the Nazis had killed 6 million European Jews in concentration camps, or pogroms, or ghettos, or mass executions in what we refer to today as the Holocaust. The Nazis used the term Endlösung , or Final Solution, as the “answer” to the “Jewish question.” But when did this monstrous plan get put in motion?

Adolf Hitler had provided clues to his ambition to commit mass genocide as early as 1922, telling journalist Josef Hell , “Once I really am in power, my first and foremost task will be the annihilation of the Jews.”

But how he would enact such a plan wasn’t always clear. For a brief period, the Führer and other Nazi leaders toyed with the idea of mass deportation as a method of creating a Europe without Jews ( Madagascar and the Arctic Circle were two suggested relocation sites). Deportation still would’ve resulted in thousands of deaths, though perhaps in less direct ways.

When exactly Hitler settled on straightforward murder as a means of removal has been harder to pinpoint. As Yale historian Timothy Snyder writes , “It cannot be stressed enough that the Nazis did not know how to eradicate the Jews when they began the war against the Soviet Union [in the summer of 1941]… They could not be confident that SS men would shoot women and children in large numbers.” But as Operation Barbarossa, the name for the Nazi invasion of the U.S.S.R, proved during the mass shootings of June 1941 and the massacres at Kiev in September , the Order Police and Einsatzgrüppen were more than willing to commit mass murders. This meant Hitler could take the solution to the Jewish problem to its “furthest extremes,” in the words of Philipp Bouhler , the senior Nazi official responsible for the euthanasia program that killed more than 70,000 handicapped German people.

According to scholars Christian Gerlach and Peter Monteath , among others, the pivotal moment for Hitler’s decision came on December 12, 1941, at a secret meeting with some 50 Nazi officials, including Joseph Goebbels (Nazi minister of propaganda) and Hans Frank (governor of occupied Poland). Though no written documents of the meeting survive, Goebbels described the meeting in his journal on December 13, 1941:

“With respect of the Jewish Question, the Führer has decided to make a clean sweep. He prophesied to the Jews that if they again brought about a world war, they would live to see their annihilation in it. That wasn’t just a catchword… If the German people have now again sacrificed 160,000 dead on the eastern front, then those responsible for this bloody conflict will have to pay with their lives.”

In addition to Goebbels’s diary entry, historians cite the notes of German diplomat Otto Brautigam, who on December 18, 1941, wrote that “as for the Jewish question, oral discussions have taken place [and] have brought about clarification.”

This meeting, which would be followed by the January 1942 Wannsee Conference (where the decision on exterminating all European Jews was further reinforced), was hardly the start of violence against Jews. Attacks had been happening in Nazi Germany’s occupied territories for years. What differentiated this period from earlier attacks was “an escalation of murder,” says Elizabeth White, historian at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

“At some point I think, with the development of killing centers, [the Nazis] felt that they had the means and opportunity to realize the vision of a Jew-free Europe now rather than wait until after Germany had won [the war].”

Australian historian Peter Monteath echoes that conclusion, writing in 1998 that the December 12 decision “made it clear that the principle of killing Jews in the occupied territories in the east was to be extended to all European Jews, including those in Germany and Western Europe.”

In the decades that followed the Nuremburg Trials, in which Nazi officials, charged with crimes against peace and humanity, hid behind the excuse that they were just following orders, historians grappled with questions of blame and guilt. Had Hitler and top Nazi officials been solely responsible for the genocide? How complicit were lower-level Nazis and members of the Order Police?

“We had big gaps in our knowledge because most of the documentation about how the genocide was carried out on the ground was captured by the Soviet Red Army and wasn’t available until after the Cold War,” says White. The fall of the Soviet Union led to a feast of wartime bureaucratic records, allowing historians to realize how much leeway Nazi officials were given. It became readily clear that the number of Nazis involved in enacting the Final Solution was much larger than previously believed.

“The way Hitler worked was he would make these pronouncements, and people would go off and figure out, what did he mean? How are we going to do this?” says White. “You could work towards the Führer by being innovative and ruthless.”

In other words, rather than giving explicit orders to each member of the Nazi party, Hitler made numerous statements vilifying Jewish people and declaring the need to exterminate them.

After the December 12 meeting, these proclamations took a more precise tone: the Nazis needed to kill all Jews, including German Jews and Western European Jews, and they needed to do so systematically. What had started as uncertain and sporadic violence quickly turned into wholesale slaughter, complete with gas chambers and concentration camps. Six weeks later, SS chief Heinrich Himmler, the Nazi official responsible for the implementation of the Final Solution, ordered the first Jews of Europe to Auschwitz.

The Holocaust had truly begun.

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