The Final Archives of the Führerbunker: Berlin in 1945, the Chancellery and the Last Days of Hitler

Paul Villatoux · Xavier Aiolfi

oct 2020 · Casemate

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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

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Paul Villatoux has a PhD in History and is the author/editor of several books and numerous journal articles, book chapters and conference papers. Among his recently published books are La Guerre Psychologique des Origines à Nos Jours (2008), Le 2e Régiment de Parachutiste d'Infanterie de Marine (RPIMa), Histoire et Traditions (2012), Entrepreneurial Tales. Zodiac Aerospace, 120 Years in Aerospace (2017), and Renault FT, le Char de la Victoire (2018).