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Can't remember the website now, but someone went to the trouble of finding the location and it is now a benign apartment building complex with the parking lot over the previous bunker. There was also a small sign saying it was the previous site of the bunker.
To read an excellent account of the end of Nazi Germany as seen inside the bunker, read "The Bunker" by James ODonnell.
He was an Army captain in July 1945 when he visited the bunker. Paranoid and suspicious Red Army soldiers followed him but he still was able to get some good looks at the layout, then he began interviewing, over the next 10-15 years, over 50 people who were there in those final days. He writes a gripping description of how things panned out in the last months, I found particularly interesting the story of the husband of Eva Braun's sister, SS Col. Fegelein, was tried and executed for hiding out and being drunk in Berlin instead of being present for duty, he speaks of the iron grip of Martin Borman in the bunker, who everyone had to go through to speak to Hitler and he becoming a tyrant himself, drunk with power as second in command to the largely absent Fuhrer. The desperation of knowing you only have weeks of freedom left still meant many chose to remain there till the end, even after Hitler said it was okay to flee the oncoming Russians. Many probably knew they wouldnt get far. The successful landing of a small plane in bombed out Berlin by Hanna Reitsch was fascinating.
That would be "Downfall". In German, Der Untergang.
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