According to Wieland Giebel, head of the Berlin story Bunker Museum, Hitler committed suicide when he barely controlled a handful of square meter in Germany and Berlin was surrounded by the Soviet army.
The suicides in the Berlin bunker of Adolf Hitler and his closest circle, including those of His wife Eva BraunOf which 80 years are played this Wednesday, they were one of the most symbolic events of the end of the III Reich and therefore in the Second World War.
According to Wieland Giebel, responsible for the Berlin Story Bunker MuseumAn exhibition center with a detailed monster about the rise of the power of the Nazi party, the III Reich, the Second World War and the Holocaust, Hitler committed suicide when he barely checked a handful of square meter in Germany and Berlin was surrounded by the Soviet army.
After sacrificing BlondiThe German Shepherd of FührerHitler and Braun took their lives at 3.30 p.m. On April 30, 1945 in the office of the Bunker, on the couch that dominated a small room where a desk and a reasons were also difficult.
She took one Cyanide Capsulehe, in addition to those fast and deadly action, He shot in the head. When the Soviet soldiers who entered Berlin from the Nazis, there was still blood from the dictator on the couch, where his body lay.
On an armed concrete wall of 3.80 meters thick, there was a portrait of Federico II of Prussia” Federico the GreatHero of German history and protagonist of a heroic military resistance in the seven -year war.
However, resistance was not something that the bunker’s occupants could really devote themselves at the end of April 1945, because their suicide took place when Hitler no longer exercised power. “His ability to make decisions at that time influenced what happened in less than a square kilometer in Germany”Add Giebel.
Suicides in the company of the Goebbels and their generals
For Giebel, the suicide of Führer is An essential fact To understand the end of a conflict that Europe destroyed, “because only the Second World War ended, because Hitler was the one who started the war and launching the Holocaust.”
Together two generals who the Führer and the propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, and his wife, Magdaafter the last Your six children tolerate.
Sven-Felix Kellerhoff, historian and author of countless books about national socialism, coincides with Giebel when points to the historical importance of suicides that took place in the bunker of the Führer.
In his opinion, his death ended the “Revanchista War” That Hitler launched against Europe and the Holocaust, two dark realities that Kellerhoff has ‘specifically for Hitler’s madness’.
“The Second World War, as it took place, is unthinkable without Hitler, without Hitler’s person, it would probably not have happened because it happened,” says this historian.
A plaque in 2006
However, we had to wait until 2006, so that a sober informative album appeared in Berlin with a report of the location of the Hitler Bunker and the most relevant events that took place there.
In the area where this military infrastructure today was expanded with a parking lot, a playground and gardens of some apartment buildings built shortly after the Second World War.
In a street in that recreational area, the monument is in memory of the murdered Jews of Europe, iconic installation of the center of Berlin for the memory of the six million Jews who died by the Nazis in the Holocaust.
Source: EITB
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