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Berlin. April 1945.

Nazi Germany is about to fall.

Hiding in an underground bunker
beneath the city is Adolf Hitler,

the man who plunged the world
into six years of total war.

Hitler had sworn
to make the Nazis a world power,

inspiring his adoring people with
his vision of a thousand-year rule.

His armies had ravaged over
three million square miles of Europe

and ignited a world war
that killed 55 million people.

Now, Hitler's world is shrivelled

to a few cramped rooms
below the ruins of Berlin.

Above him, the Soviet army
advances through the city,

tightening the noose as they hunt
as they hunt down the Nazi leader.

For the first time
on British television,

this film goes inside Hitler's bunker

to hear previously untold stories
of those last desperate days,

in extraordinary film interviews

which have never been seen before
in the UK.

We hear,
from the people who were there,

what happened the day Hitler died.

The army major who knew that to admit
defeat to the Fuhrer meant death.

He wanted to live.

He loved power
like a miser loves gold.

The secretary who typed Hitler's
last will and political testament.

For years, he had been taking
medicines, drugs and injections.

The leader of the Hitler Youth,

who was the first to see
the Fuhrer's body.

The blast of the pistol

had ruptured the veins
on either side of his head.

These witnesses
from inside Hitler's bunker

were filmed just after World War II.

Their testimonies lay forgotten in
American archives for almost 70 years

and have only recently
been rediscovered.

Did he expect others
to commit suicide with him?

Yes. Eva Braun.

The bunker became a mortuary
and the people in it living corpses.

None of these witnesses
had ever spoken on camera before.

Their memories have allowed us to
reconstruct in detail the bunker,

and the actions of the people

who witnessed
the end of the Nazi Third Reich

and Hitler's final hours.

Was there any doubt in your mind
that he was going to die?

None whatsoever.

This is the last time that
Adolf Hitler is ever seen in public.

The last time
he is ever captured on film.

He's been Fuhrer of Nazi Germany
for 12 years.

But at this moment, as he awards
medals to boys of the Hitler Youth
forced into combat,

he is days away from defeat -
and from death.

Hitler's troops once occupied
most of Europe.

But now the Third Reich is reduced
to a desperate defence of Berlin.

The German capital is surrounded.

British and American forces
fight in the west

and the ferocious Soviet army
advances from the east.

The man who conquered over three
million square miles of Europe

is now confined to a
claustrophobic underground bunker.

Buried 30 feet
beneath his headquarters,

the Fuhrerbunker
was constructed in 1944

in response
to heavier Allied bombing.

The ceiling and walls
are 12 feet thick,

encasing a network
of 16 cramped rooms.

Lying below the city's sewage system,

four flights of steps lead
into this subterranean refuge...

..where Hitler has been holed up
for four months.

The corridor is decorated
with looted art.

A grandfather clock in Hitler's study
is the only way of telling the time.

His private sitting room
is crammed with oversized furniture

brought down from
his headquarters above.

Next to his bed stands an oxygen tank

in case the ventilation should fail.

Hitler disappears into this
underworld for the final time
in April 1945.

The only people who know
what happened in the bunker

are those trapped here with him.

Six months after the war has ended,
the Nuremberg War Crime Trials begin.

Nazi leaders are prosecuted
for crimes against humanity.

But Hitler isn't on the list.

There are rumours he's still alive.

Nuremberg Judge and US Navy lawyer
Captain Michael Musmanno

decides to track down eye witnesses
to Hitler's final days.

His mission:
to prove the Fuhrer is dead.

Musmanno's search
takes him across Germany.

Over two years,
he speaks to more than 100 people,

everywhere from prisons,
internment camps, and in hiding.

In 1948, Musmanno
captures his findings on film.

I have brought a number
of eye witnesses

on the subject of Hitler's
disappearance.

In their own words,

they will tell you what happened
to the Fuhrer of Germany.

The witnesses Musmanno
brings together

are surviving members of Hitler's
civilian and military staff

who were with him
in the Fuhrerbunker.

They've never been interviewed
on camera before

and need to rehearse
their statements in English,

or speak through a translator.

The first witness will be Frau
Traudl Junge, Hitler's secretary.

Traudl Junge started working
for Hitler in 1942,

when she was only 22 years old.

Once, she'd dreamed
of being a dancer.

War put an end to that.

Hitler selected her
because she was from Bavaria,
his favourite part of Germany.

She married an SS officer
from Hitler's staff.

He died in combat a year later.

Frau Junge, what did your duties
consist of as Hitler's secretary?

At first, I received and distributed

personal mail
addressed to the Fuhrer.

There were many women
who had nothing better to do

than to write to him every week.

Were these communications
in the nature of love letters?

Yes.

Did these enthusiastic women receive
replies to their love effusions?

None at all.

By April 1945, no-one writes
love letters to the Fuhrer.

As Berlin burns
and the Soviet army closes in,

Hitler hides
in his underground bunker.

Secretary Traudl Junge
is down here with him.

Frau Junge, what was Hitler's health
in April 1945?

His health was very bad.

For years, he had been taking
medicines, drugs and injections.

During his last days, he had
a constant tremor in his hands.

And in front of strangers,

I think he was a little ashamed
of his affliction.

And would try to hide it.

As the Soviets fight their way
into Berlin,

Hitler refuses to accept
the war is lost.

He is attended in the bunker
by more than a dozen generals,

adjutants and aides-de-camp.

Twice a day he calls a military
conference in an airless room

where only HE is permitted to sit.

One of the military men
trapped with Hitler

is Baron von Loringhoven.

He's an aristocrat
with the rank of major

but has never joined the Nazi party.

He has a wife and young son and
has come to regard Hitler as insane.

Baron Loringhoven,

how large was the map room in
which you held your conferences?

It was about three by four metres.

And with 15 people crowded into it,
the atmosphere was stifling.

But what did you have to discuss?
The war was lost.

Yes. But no-one dared to mention
defeat to Hitler.

To do so, one could lose one's life.

In addition, one's entire family
would be jeopardised.

We still kept up his hopes
by hinting at secret weapons

and of dissensions
between the Allies.

One and a half million Soviet
soldiers begin entering Berlin.

The German defenders
are outnumbered three to one.

They know that the war is lost.

But Hitler has been losing his grip
on reality for weeks.

The bunker is within range
of the Soviet guns,

yet he still thinks
he can fight back.

Heinz Lorenz is the Fuhrerbunker's
press attache.

He's been part of Hitler's
inner circle throughout the war,

and often sits up late with the
Fuhrer, talking and drinking tea.

Mr Lorenz,
I should like to have you tell me

the most impressive moments
that you associate with Hitler.

Well, there were two such moments.

The first occurred April 12th,
when I brought him the news

that Roosevelt, the President of
the United States, had passed away.

RADIO: "From his beloved second home
at Warm Springs, Georgia,

the body of Franklin Delano
Roosevelt

moves on the first stages of its
journey to his final resting place."

Hitler went into a dance
and congratulated himself

as if he had himself
brought about this event.

He exclaimed, 'This will mean I will
win the war. This is our victory'.

Ten days later,
the other event occurred.

And this time, his feelings
went to the other extreme.

The Red Army juggernaut rolls
into the northern part of Berlin.

The only defence here is a ragtag
collection of inexperienced units.

Hitler orders them
to attack the Soviets,

warning that the fate of the
German capital is in their hands.

It's a suicide mission
and Hitler's soldiers refuse.

His armies were defeated
on all fronts.

And Berlin was threatened.

He ordered his troops forward
to stop the advance

but the troops failed to attack.

The shock of realisation that he,
Adolf Hitler, had been disobeyed,

and that complete disaster
was inevitable,

was too much for him.

He collapsed and he said, 'It's
all over and I'll shoot myself'.

For over a decade, Hitler's been,
in the eyes of his followers,

an invincible demi-god.

Now his inner circle are stunned
by this announcement.

Secretary Traudl Junge
sees him moments later.

Did you ever hear him mention
suicide?

Yes. After April the 22nd
he talked about it constantly.

In order that there should
be no doubt about his death,

he made plans to take poison

and at the same time
shoot himself with his pistol.

Hitler orders his safe emptied
and the contents burned.

He also removes his
Walther PPK pistol from the safe.

And sits with it, staring at
a portrait of Frederick the Great,

the Prussian king
who also vowed to kill himself

when the Russians threatened Berlin.

What was your attitude

regarding Hitler's intention
to commit suicide?

I told him, if he intended to die,

the place to die would be in battle,
leading his troops.

But he said he feared that he might
only be wounded and captured

and then the Russians
would degrade him.

Did he expect others
to commit suicide with him?

Yes. Eva Braun.

Eva Braun first met Hitler in 1929,
when she was 17

and working for a Nazi party
photographer.

Although 23 years younger than him,

Braun has been Hitler's mistress
for 14 years.

But the relationship is being
kept hidden from the German people.

Hitler wants to remain attractive
to his female admirers

and has groomed Braun to refrain
from public displays of affection.

Their private life
together in the bunker

is confined to a few
small concrete rooms.

They sleep separately.

She's here in the bunker
against Hitler's wishes

but refuses to leave.

Braun's family do not approve
of her affair with the Fuhrer.

Her sister, Ilse Braun,

knew that Eva's relationship
with Hitler was doomed.

Madame Braun, what was Hitler's
health like when you last saw him?

His face was grey as ashes.

His hands were in
a constant state of agitation

and his eyes were glassy.

He was bent over like an old man.

It seemed to me he didn't have
the energy to live much longer.

To those who knew details
of Braun and Hitler's relationship,

it is no surprise she
wanted to die with him.

Mrs Winter, how long did you keep
house for Hitler?

(HE TRANSLATES
AND SHE REPLIES IN GERMAN)

15 years.

(SPEAKS GERMAN)

Of course, Eva Braun
was a regular visitor.

(SPEAKS GERMAN)

There was a time when Eva Braun
wanted Hitler to marry her.

(SPEAKS GERMAN)

Hitler said, 'I shall never marry
but you may remain my girlfriend.'

(SPEAKS GERMAN)

She was very unhappy
over this situation

and attempted suicide.

She shot herself in the breast

but she did not seriously
injure herself.

As Hitler and Eva Braun
contemplate ending their lives,

a powerful influence in the Reich
tells them to wait.

Joseph Goebbels,
the Nazi propaganda minister,

is the Fuhrer's
most fanatical follower.

He persuades Hitler
not to take his life...yet.

Rather, he says,
use his willingness to face death

to inspire Germany
to fight on to the end.

Goebbels will make a radio broadcast,

announcing that the Fuhrer will die
fighting with his troops
defending Berlin.

Then, the propaganda minister
brings his family into the bunker.

His six children, five girls and
a boy, call Hitler 'Uncle Adolf'.

His wife, Magda, is a fanatical Nazi.

The Goebbels have
been presented to Germany as
the Third Reich's modelfamily.

Now they will be at the
Fuhrer's side in his final hours

as an example to all Germans.

It becomes apparent that the Goebbels
children have no change of clothes.

And then the Nazi propaganda minister
and his wife make a horrifying
announcement.

Goebbels and Mrs Goebbels announced

they didn't want to live
after the Fuhrer had gone.

And so they talked all day long
on how they were going to die.

Minister Goebbels and his wife

arranged to have their
six children poisoned as well.

Frau Goebbels declares that she
doesn't wish her children to live in
a world without National Socialism.

The rank atmosphere in the bunker
is recharged with Nazi fervour.

Generals Krebs and Bergdorf announce
that they too will die with the
Fuhrer.

He was passing around poison phials.
Did you get one?

No. I wasn't within
the immediate entourage,

nor had I any desire
to paint my lips.

Well, what do you mean by that?

The poison was contained
in a receptacle

which looked like a lipstick

and those who received them
regarded them as a great treasure.

What kind of poison was to be used?

Cyanide Potassium.

It was contained in a little phial
which fitted in a brass container.

Just like this.

He gave me one with the others.

Did you intend
to commit suicide also?

Well, I didn't intend to die

just because Hitler
was going to end his life.

I intended to use the poison

only if war conditions compelled me,

or in the event
of a personal attack.

Conversation in the bunker is
dominated by the idea of suicide.

But some people reject the notion.

Major Johannmeier
is Hitler's army adjutant.

He's a veteran of the Russian Front
and won the Iron Cross for bravery.

Major Johannmeier, did you
receive one of the poison phials

which Hitler distributed, according
to the testimony of other witnesses?

No. I was a soldier
and did not want to die by poison.

I wanted to fight
and if I had to die, die honourably.

But Hitler allows no-one to leave
the bunker without his permission.

And few believe
they're going to get out alive.

30 feet above the bunker,
in the ruins of Berlin,

thousands of Germans
are already dead.

The Red Army has completely
encircled the city

and meets up with US troops
in the west.

General Eisenhower, Supreme
Commander of the Allied Forces

has agreed to let the Soviets
take Berlin.

They want Hitler alive

and as they fight their way to
the Fuhrerbunker, street by street,

they're calling it
the biggest manhunt in history.

Hitler tries one last desperate
tactic to save himself.

50 miles to the southwest of Berlin
is the 12th German army,

commanded by General Wenck.

It faces the American advance
on the River Elbe.

Hitler orders Wenck
and his 70,000 men

to about turn and come to his aid.

Hitler hoped that Wenck's army would
break through to relieve Berlin.

Where was Wenck?

On the Elbe. He stormed ahead
with a few troops as far as Potsdam

but he was hopelessly outnumbered
and out-equipped.

The Soviet bombardment
now homes in on Hitler's position.

Shells land so close to the bunker,
it shakes,

filling the air and covering
the surfaces with concrete dust.

The lights frequently fail.

Each day, Hitler takes tea
and crumpets with his secretary.

And each day he demands to know
when Wenck will come.

But unknown to Hitler, Wenck has
disobeyed the order to relieve Berlin

and is instead
helping civilians flee.

Nonetheless, each day Hitler
wanted to know where Wenck was.

But Baron, hadn't
Hitler already decided to die?

Yes. But he wanted to live.

He loved power
like a miser loves gold.

For five days,
Hitler clings to the delusion

that his army will relieve Berlin.

Baron von Loringhoven's duty

is to provide the Fuhrer
with intelligence updates.

But the bunker is now cut off from
radio contact with the military.

He resorts to using
a Berlin telephone directory

to call addresses in the city.

If a Russian voice answers,
he knows that sector is taken.

If it's German, he asks them
to look out of the window
and tell him what's happening.

By April 28th, the Russians are
less than 500 metres from the bunker.

Hitler still clings on.

Then he receives news
that changes everything.

Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS

and the second most powerful man
in the Reich, has betrayed him.

From the relative safety of German
occupied territory in the north,

he's trying to negotiate peace
with the Americans.

The news is picked up via a bulletin
on the BBC World Service,

now virtually the only contact
Hitler's staff has with the outside
world.

Now, Baron Loringhoven, just
when did Hitler abandon all hope?

When Hitler heard that Himmler

had tried to surrender
to the western powers,

he raged and declared

that never would a traitor
succeed him as Fuhrer.

Hitler orders Himmler's
representative in the bunker,

General Fegelein, to be shot.

Fegelein is Eva Braun's
brother-in-law,

married to her pregnant sister.

Hitler's mistress begs for his life

but the plea is refused.

Then Hitler begins dictating his
final will and political testament

to Traudl Junge.

He starts by blaming the Jews
for the war.

He dictated it to me
the night of April 28th.

I must frankly say that
the will was very disappointing.

I thought that in it he would
try to justify what he has done

and why Germany found itself
in its present situation.

So that he might offer to show some
way out of our horrible tragedy.

But he repeated
the same old arguments

he had used over and over
in all his speeches.

The will also reveals that Hitler
is prepared to give his mistress
what she's always craved.

Although never mentioning her
by name,

it states that in return
for her loyalty

and willingness to die with him,

he will at last marry Eva Braun.

Just over an hour after
executing her brother-in-law,

Hitler emerges from his room
with Eva Braun on his arm.

She wears a black sequinned dress,

her eyes are radiant
with happy tears.

Hitler wears his usual tunic.

Goebbels acts as best man
in the hastily arranged ceremony

and the bride and groom,
adhering to the legal requirements
of a Nazi wedding,

both declare that they are
of pure Aryan descent

and free from hereditary disease.

As Eva signs the wedding certificate,
she writes the letter B for Braun

before scoring it out
and writing Hitler.

What happened at the end?

He married Eva Braun
and prepared for his suicide.

Was there a wedding celebration?

There was a little party
and they drank champagne.

Hitler did not drink any champagne
because he was dictating his will.

Hitler returns to dictating his will,

stating that he and his new wife
will take their lives

rather than face the shame of defeat
and surrender.

Their bodies are to be burned.

It also urges his successors
to continue the fight.

The documents are to be couriered
out of the bunker,

through Soviet lines to
territory still held by Germany.

When did you last see Adolf Hitler?

The morning of April 29th.

He directed me to take a copy of
his will to Field Marshal Schorner

and emphasised the importance
of the mission.

What was the atmosphere of
that last conversation with Hitler?

We both realised we would
never see each other again.

Was there any doubt in your mind
that he was going to die?

None whatsoever.

Having married Eva Braun
and written his last will
and political testament,

urging his followers
to continue the fight,

all Adolf Hitler has left to do
is take his life.

Now, in his final hours,

the Fuhrer's paranoia reaches new
heights in the claustrophobic bunker.

What was Hitler's mood
during this period?

He was depressed
and suspicious of everybody.

He even now suspected
that the poison

would only make him unconscious

and he would be turned over alive
to the Allies.

So he decided to test the poison.

On whom did he test the poison?

On his best friend.

Namely?

Blondi.

Who was Blondi?
His dog.

What was the result of the test?
The dog died.

Trapped in the bunker with him,

his staff know the reign
of the Fuhrer will soon be over.

Hitler moved about
like a living dead man.

He couldn't bear to be alone.

And he walked around
from person to person.

Before, everybody had an awe of him.

Now he excited no fear or sensation.

The people in the bunker
even smoked.

Something no-one had dared
to do in 12 years in his presence.

Even Eva Braun, who had never smoked
before, had a cigarette on that day.

The bombardment of Berlin
intensifies.

The bunker's sewage pipes rupture
and the toilets overflow,

filling the corridor and rooms
with the reek of urine.

The generals get drunk.

The bunker became a mortuary and
the people in it living corpses.

The atmosphere
was very depressing and funereal.

And I had no desire to remain.

If I was going to die,

I preferred death
on the battlefield as a soldier.

How did you get out of the bunker?

I asked my superior,
Officer General Krebs,

if I could try to join General
Wenck's army still in the field.

He got Hitler's permission.
I saluted and left.

What was Hitler's demeanour
as you actually left?

He had a collected
and concentrated expression

as if he had closed everything

and was no more interested
in minor people like ourselves.

A British radio broadcast
is picked up in the bunker

late on the evening of April 29th,

describing the fate of Hitler's ally,

the Italian Fascist dictator
Mussolini.

"Milan was in a state of the
wildest excitement at this time

because the partisans
had just killed Mussolini.

The bodies of the ex-dictator,
his mistress and fellow fascists

were left lying in the square
and the enraged Italians

took the opportunity of kicking
them and flinging rubbish on them.

The final ghastly scene was the
hanging of the bodies upside down
outside a petrol station.

Well, at least it's a warning to
all remaining fascists everywhere."

Did Hitler hear
of the death of Mussolini?

Yes, he did

and I think that this unnerved him
more than anything else.

He had a great fear
that if captured, dead or alive,

his body would be exposed
to ridicule and degradation.

In the early hours of April 30th,

Hitler orders an assembly
of the Fuhrerbunker staff.

Baroness Irmengard von Varo
is a German aristocrat

sheltering in the bunker
from the Red Army.

Now she volunteers as a waitress.

At 2:30 in the morning,
I was awakened,

and instructed to report
to the Fuhrer's rooms.

My eyes heavy with sleep,

I made my way underground to
the corridor in the Fuhrerbunker.

I saw a strange figure.
It looked like a ghost.

I saw it was Hitler.

He was absolutely shrunken.

He was hanging in his clothes.

His eyes were glaring
into emptiness.

His hands were shaking
like leaves in a storm.

Hitler thanks his staff
for their loyal service.

He shook hands with each one of us
like an old man going to his grave

and then he said goodbye
to all of us.

I made some foolish remarks
about keeping up courage

but I am sure he did not hear me
or pay any attention

and then, dragging his feet,
he slowly went out.

The Soviets are 200 metres away.

Hitler is informed
that the Fuhrerbunker
would be breached at anymoment.

He attempts to step outside
but the shelling is too intense.

A conference is held.
There is nothing to say.

Hitler instructs his adjutant, Otto
Gunsche, to procure enough gasoline

to ensure that his and his wife's
bodies are incinerated.

Tell us about the 30th.

We had lunch together.
Hitler, Eva Braun and myself.

There was an attempt
at normal conversation.

But everybody could
feel the presence of death.

Hitler is vegetarian and
the last meal he and Eva Braun eat

is spaghetti with cabbage
and raisin salad.

How did Eva Braun
take all this business of dying?

She loved the Fuhrer and
she was willing to die with him.

But still she loved life.

She was a very lively person

and had a great spirit
of good living.

Once she had agreed to die
with Hitler,

I think she was like a child
in the dark.

She asked Hitler, 'Will it hurt?

I don't mind dying heroically
but it must be painless'.

And she laughed but it was not
laughter which comes from the heart.

What did Hitler say to this?

Oh, he went into details.

He said,
'The immediate effect of the poison

will be a paralysation
of the respiratory tissues

and then of the heart.

That will occur
only after a few minutes.

But the pains will cease
after a few seconds

of the tissue convulsions occurring.

Eva Braun changes.

She chooses Hitler's favourite dress.

Black with white roses
around the neck.

She does her hair.

And paints her nails.

After lunch,
I retired in one of the rooms.

At about 2:30, Gunsche,
who was Hitler's SS adjutant,

called me out to the corridor.

Here I saw Hitler with Eva Braun on
his arm, giving his final farewells.

I was the last person
to whom he offered his hand.

It was very limp.

He looked at me
but I don't think he saw me.

I don't think he saw anybody.

Hitler and his wife
retired to their rooms.

Magda Goebbels,
the Nazi propaganda minister's wife,

and mother of his six children,
appears at Hitler's door.

For days, she has shut herself away
in her room.

Now, she demands to see Hitler.

The adjutant relents and knocks.

Hitler opens the door

and Frau Goebbels
bursts into a desperate plea.

She knows that when the Fuhrer dies,
she will have to carry out her vow

to not only kill herself,
but also poison her children,

and implores Hitler
to escape and live on.

Hitler's refusal is brusque.

No-one will see the Fuhrer alive
again.

Artur Axmann,
leader of the Hitler Youth, arrives.

He joined the Nazi party at 15 and
started the first Hitler Youth group

to indoctrinate children and
teenagers into National Socialism.

He's recruited thousands of boys
as young as 12 to defend Berlin

and they are taking heavy casualties.

He's here for his daily conference
with the Fuhrer.

I arrived there
at about 3: 00 in the afternoon.

I went to the room
but the door was closed.

And Gunsche, his SS adjutant,
was standing outside.

He motioned me to silence

and I went back to the conference
room and waited with Goebbels.

(EXPLOSIONS)

The bombardment above
resumes with renewed intensity.

The bunker personnel wait for the
Fuhrer to finally carry out the act

he's been threatening
for the last eight days.

Suddenly I thought
of the Goebbels children.

My heart went out in sympathy
with them.

Because I knew they were marked
for death too.

And I was afraid
that just in that moment,

the children would want to see him.

I knew that at any moment now,
Hitler would take his life.

(GUNSHOT)

And that, Captain Musmanno, was the
shot which finished Adolf Hitler.

Goebbels and I ran back
to Hitler's room and entered it.

We found Eva Braun
sitting on the sofa,

her head resting
on Hitler's left shoulder.

She wore a black chiffon dress.
She was dead.

But she had no marks of violence
on her body.

She died of poison.

Hitler's lower jaw
was slightly distorted.

It was obvious
he had shot himself in the mouth.

On either side of his temples,
I saw drops of blood.

The blast of the pistol

had ruptured the veins
on either side of his head.

The sofa was stained with blood
and his pistol lay at his feet.

I remained with the corpses
about ten minutes.

Then I returned to the
conference room and from this point

saw Hitler's and Eva Braun's bodies
being carried out of the bunker.

But for Hitler's staff, there
is still one more ordeal to come.

For 12 years, Adolf Hitler
was leader of Nazi Germany.

For six years, he inflicted
the chaos and catastrophe

of a global war
that claimed 55 million lives.

Now Hitler lies dead by his own hand.

The Third Reich is over.

In accordance with his orders,

the bodies of Hitler and his wife
are to be burned.

His staff must get them outside.

Erich Kempka, the Fuhrer's chauffeur
since 1934, carries Eva Braun.

Mr Kempka, please tell us
about the events of April 30th.

(SPEAKS GERMAN)

I turned over Eva Braun's body
to Gunsche.

(SPEAKS GERMAN)

And he laid her down
next to Hitler's corpse.

Hitler and Braun's bodies
are laid in a shell crater.

180 litres of gasoline
lie waiting at the bunker exit.

(SPEAKS GERMAN)

We then picked up the cans and
poured gasoline over both bodies.

Fuhrerbunker guard Hermann Karnau
approaches the scene.

(SPEAKS GERMAN)

Hitler was wrapped up in a blanket
which had opened up.

(SPEAKS GERMAN)

I saw his face covered with blood.

(SPEAKS GERMAN)

All the time, the Russian artillery
were shelling the Reich Chancellery.

(SPEAKS GERMAN)

We had to take shelter in the
concrete entrance to the bunker.

(SPEAKS GERMAN)

Here, Gunsche lighted a rag...

(SPEAKS GERMAN)

..and threw it to the bodies.

(SPEAKS GERMAN)

Both bodies were in full flame
when I left.

Hermann Karnau has kept watch
over the funeral pyre

for the last two hours.

(SPEAKS GERMAN)

The bodies were still burning.

(SPEAKS GERMAN)

And the flesh moved up and down.

(SPEAKS GERMAN)

I touched the burning remains which
were lying before me with my feet.

And they fell apart.

(SPEAKS GERMAN)

Almost frozen,
I remained fixed to the spot

and lifted my arm in salute.

The incinerated remains
of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun

are buried in the shell crater.

(RADIO TUNING)

"This is London calling.

Here is a news flash.

The German radio has just
announced that Hitler is dead.

I'll repeat that.

The German radio has just announced
that Hitler is dead."

24 hours later, Soviets enter
and loot the deserted Fuhrerbunker.

They find the charred remains
of Goebbels and his wife.

They've shot themselves
and their bodies have been burned.

They also find the bodies of
the six poisoned Goebbels children.

The Soviets dig up what's left
of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun

and identify the Fuhrer
using his dental records.

No-one is certain
what happened to the remains.

And they are never shown
to the western powers.

Stalin, the Russian dictator,

suggests Hitler escaped Berlin
and is still alive.

The rumour marks the beginning
of the mistrust and disinformation

that will define the coming cold war.

By the time Captain Musmanno
concludes his investigation in 1948,

there's been no trace of Hitler
for three years.

There can be no doubt that
Adolf Hitler,

the Fuhrer of Germany,

the master criminal of the world,

the greatest gangster who
ever disgraced...the human race,

is dead.

Michael Musmanno's interview footage
is never seen by the public.

He sends a copy to Hollywood

but the mood of the western world
has changed.

It wants to forget Hitler
and the war.

And instead look forward
to a brighter new future.

The film is only rediscovered in an
American university archive in 2013.

Today, the site of the Fuhrerbunker
in Berlin

where Hitler died
and his body was burned

is a car park.

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