Documenting the downfall

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; and where he killed himself.

In the middle of a heap of furniture and broken objects, the two officers found hundreds of documents. They retrieved 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 expert commentary.

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