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Fuhrerbunker

Germany · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

9Records
1945Date range
5Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1945

Martin Bormann16 January 1945

Berlin · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Hitler moves into the Fuhrerbunker, he is joined by his senior staff, Martin Bormann, and later, Eva Braun and Joseph Goebbels with Magda and their six children who took residence in the upper Vorbunker

Erna Flegel16 January 1945

Berlin · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Hitler's secretaries include Traudl Junge a nurse named Erna Flegel and telephonist Rochus Misch

Adolf Hitler16 January 1945

Berlin · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Hitler moves into the Fuhrerbunker, he is joined by his senior staff, Martin Bormann, and later, Eva Braun and Joseph Goebbels with Magda and their six children who took residence in the upper Vorbunker

Traudl Junge16 January 1945

Berlin · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Hitler's secretaries include Traudl Junge a nurse named Erna Flegel and telephonist Rochus Misch

Rochus Misch16 January 1945

Berlin · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Hitler's secretaries include Traudl Junge a nurse named Erna Flegel and telephonist Rochus Misch

Adolf Hitler16 April 1945

Berlin · Warfare / World War, 2nd

The Red Army start the Battle of Berlin by attacking German front line positions on the rivers Oder and Neisse

Adolf Hitler19 April 1945

Berlin · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Soviet spearheads had break through the German lines and start to encircle Berlin

Adolf Hitler20 April 1945

Berlin · Warfare / World War, 2nd

On his birthday Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to some boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth

Adolf Hitler22 April 1945

Berlin · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Declares that the war is lost, he blames the generals and announces that he will stay on in Berlin until the end and then kill himself

Names involved

Adolf HitlerErna FlegelMartin BormannRochus MischTraudl Junge

Provenance

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