Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
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Berlin, April 1945: The Red Army invades the suburbs of the German capital and advances inexorably toward the government district. The last contingent of SS, HJ and Wehrmacht members tried in vain to stop the advance of the enemy. Berlin can no longer be held, even the last general in the Führerbunker has now realized that the war is lost.
The enemy's wrath is now being unleashed on the German people with all its ferocity. In the streets of Berlin, the urban warfare escalates and horrific scenes take place among the civilian population. No distinction is made anymore between soldiers and inhabitants of Berlin. Or as Adolf Hitler puts it, “In this war there are no civilians.” Thousands die for the senseless defense of the Reich capital.
But all this no longer interests the Führer and Reich Chancellor of the German people. His departure is perfectly planned down to the last detail. He marries Eva Braun and shortly thereafter takes his own life. Even when the bodies of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun are burned in the garden of the Reich Chancellery, Goebbels and the remaining generals refuse to accept the unconditional surrender demanded by the Russians.
As the situation becomes increasingly hopeless, Magda Goebbels kills her six children in the bunker with poison before she and her husband also commit suicide. Only now do the last remaining occupants of the bunker dare to escape through the Russian occupation ring…
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