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Inside Hitlers Bunker: the Last Days of the Third Reich Free Ebook FREEINSIDE HITLERS BUNKER: THE LAST DAYS OF THE THIRD REICH EBOOK Joachim C. Fest | 208 pages | 16 Aug 2012 | Pan MacMillan | 9781447218609 | English | London, United Kingdom Inside Hitler's Bunker - Wikipedia Forty years ago, a tangle of chaotic events led to the death of Hitler, the surrender of the Nazis, and the end of World War II in Europe. The last time Grand Adm. Alfred Jodl. Doenitz, a man of doglike devotion to Hitler, was present as head of the German navy. Hitler moved down the line of wellwishers shaking hands, offering a few halting words to each man. Above them Berlin shuddered under another one-thousandplane Allied air raid, while Red Army units completed their encirclement of the doomed capital. The listless Hitler greeting his lieutenants was a husk of the once mesmerizing figure whom these men had followed for the last twelve years. The Inside Hitlers Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich, he could see, was being crushed by the weight of his burdens. Now, with the perfunctory birthday observance over, Hitler convened a staff meeting. With Russian and American forces soon expected to join hands and cut Germany in two, Hitler announced a top-level command change. He placed the absent Gen. Albert Kesselring in charge of all remaining German forces in the south. The loyal Doenitz was to command all units in the north. Inside Hitlers Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich days later Hitler was dead and Nazi Germany had a new leader, not the expected Goering or the dreaded Himmler, but a wholly unpredicted choice. When an enraged Hitler learned of this Inside Hitlers Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich dose of treachery by two of his anointed, he expelled Goering and Himmler from the Nazi party and stripped them of all rights and offices. He then wrote his last will and testament and named a new successor. Thirty-six hours later, Hitler shot himself. While there, Himmler was visited by Albert Speer, the youthful Hitler favorite and Reich minister of armaments. According to enemy broadcast, Himmler made offer to surrender via Sweden. The admiral was uneasy and as much in the dark about the events in Berlin as was Himmler. Doenitz arrived first. Doenitz asked Himmler if it was true that he had sought a separate peace with the Western Allies. Himmler lied that he had not. Later that day Doenitr received a second radio signal from Berlin. This one staggered him. Until this moment, Doenitz had never received the slightest hint that he was considered a suitable heir. The man who took over this collapsing regime was a fifty-four-year-old career officer who looked, without his resplendent naval uniform, like a shoe clerk. Though perhaps unprepossessing in appearance, Doenitz had gained renown for carrying out one of the deadliest strategies in modern naval warfare, the submarine wolfpack. Karl Doenitz, a descendant of squires and magistrates, was an archetypal German of his class. He accepted authority from above without question and expected the same obedience from below. An apolitical monarchist by temperament, he had been scandalized by the disorder of the Weimar Republic. When the Nazis came along, he took their professions of nationalism and idealism at face value. Still, Karl Doenitz was no brown-shirt bully. But toward the official Nazi racial claptrap and its tragic consequences, he turned a blind eye. If Hitler had sought slavish loyalty in his heir, he had made the perfect choice. With the war hopelessly lost, Admiral Doenitz was still exhortine his navy to fight on and still signing death sentences for deserters. At first Inside Hitlers Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich haughtily refused to come. Doenitz received Himmler seated at his desk. Under some papers and within reach, the admiral had concealed a pistol with the safety catch off. Himmler read it and turned pale, his features disbelieving. Doenitz experienced deep relief. He also managed to put off Himmler on his offer to serve in the new government. The Nazi empire that Doenitz inherited was now only a remnant of its once vast reach. Days before, the American and Russian armies had indeed linked up at Torgau on the Elbe, splitting Germany in half. German forces in Italy had surrendered unconditionally, and Soviet troops had reached the Berlin Reichstag. German soldiers were surrendering to the West in numbers that suggested a field-gray tidal wave flowing into POW cages. Only this time it was the entire ship of state going under. Inside Hitlers Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich grand admiral nevertheless took up his duties with implausible zeal. I shall do everything possible to relieve you in Berlin… Inside Hitlers Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich shall continue this war to an end worthy of the unique, heroic struggle of the German people. The next morning, Doenitz received another message signed by Goebbels and Bormann, who finally informed him that Hitler was dead. That evening Doenitz delivered his first radio address to the German people. He then explained why he was not immediately ending a hopeless war. It is to serve this purpose alone that the military struggle continues. Fearing capture, Doenitz moved his government farther north to the naval college near Flensburg, almost on the Danish border. Heinrich Himmler, driving a Mercedes, wearing a crash helmet, and leading a motorcade of over one hundred and fifty SS loyalists, followed Doenitz to Flensburg. The roads were jammed with columns of retreating troops and refugees. Burned-out hulks of wrecked vehicles littered the route. Himmler and his entourage dove repeatedly into the mud to seek cover as British aircraft bombed and strafed the countryside. The present headquarters of the Allied supreme commander was a far cry from what Gen. Dwieht Elsenhower had occupied at Versailles. Here Elsenhower occupied a nondescript office that looked out on a vista of six-by-sixes churning up the earth. For his private quarters Ike had chosen something more fashionable—the nearby chateau of a wealthy champagne baron. By Saturday, May 5, Elsenhower had received word that Adm. He could adopt a disguise and try to disappear. He could shoot himself. Or he could do the honorable thing—turn himself in and take full responsibility for the actions of the SS. Himmler instead gathered his staff around him and began to set up his own government to make another try for an independent peace with the West. He still talked of getting that hour alone with Elsenhower in which he would persuade the American to become his comrade-in-arms in the inevitable war against the Soviets. As the meeting ended, Himmler handed out titles in his new Nazi government among his cronies. If the staff members crowding the windows of the headquarters were expecting a strutting Hollywood Nazi, Hans Georg von Friedeburg proved a severe disappointment. At P. Friedeburg and his party were greeted by no honor guard, no salutes, no gesture of military courtesy. His first words upon entering Allied headquarters were to ask if he might take a moment to put on a clean collar. He was taken to a washroom and hummed softly to himself as he made the change. General Elsenhower had no desire to involve himself personally in the negotiations with the Germans. He entrusted that role to his chief of staff, Gen. Walter Bedell Smith. More to the point, he suspected that they would try to wring concessions from him that he had no intention of granting. Kenneth W. To the authentic battle lines they had added bold red arrows tracing the thrust of two fictitious armies, one from the east and one from the west, designed to make a desperate situation appear even more hopeless. Friedeburg immediately threw the two Allied officers off balance. He was not there, he announced, to sign a general surrender. He had come only to work out local surrenders of German units facing the Western Allies. He had no authority over troops fighting the Russians. As the discussion dragged on, he kept injecting conditions that he knew the Allies could not accept, buying time with each gambit. Smith then decided to make clear to Friedeburg that the German did not hold a weak hand. He held no hand. Eisenhower would accept no surrender, Smith told him, that did not include capitulation on all fronts to all the Allies simultaneously—unconditional surrender. Friedeburg protested that he lacked the authority to take such sweeping action. He asked if he might send a message to Doenitz requesting permission to accept the Allied terms. Smith agreed. Friedeburg drafted the message, handing Inside Hitlers Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich to the American with tears in his eyes. Ike was convinced that the Germans were deliberately stalling. It was late. Peace would not come that night. Actually, the surrender terms were not yet ready. John Counsel! But lately he had also been assigned to work with an Allied board trying to write a surrender acceptable to America, Britain, Russia, and France. The moment of surrender had apparently arrived, and agreement on the terms had still not been reached. Inside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now. Javascript is not enabled in your browser. Enabling JavaScript in your browser will allow you to experience all the features of our site. Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser. Fest describes in riveting detail the final weeks of the war, from the desperate battles that raged night and day in the ruins of Berlin, fought by boys and old men, to the growing paranoia that marked Hitler's mental state, to his suicide and the efforts of his loyal aides to destroy his body before the advancing Russian armies reached Berlin.
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