DEAD ANIMAL Hitler & Adjoining Bunker Pictures

The Fuehrerbunker ("Leader's bunker") complex—a maze of living and sleeping quar­ters, con­fer­ence rooms, offices, and utili­ties spreading two stories deep beneath the Old Chan­cel­lery building and the chan­cel­lery gardens (see schematic dia­gram below)—had been greatly expanded from the original 1936–37 "air raid cellar," where Hitler had found refuge during the first British bombing raids on the Nazi capital in August 1940.

After the Luft­waffe's loss of con­trol of Ger­man air­space, Hitler gave archi­tect Albert Speer the assign­ment to design a new, stronger, deeper bunker with 3.5 meter-thick ceilings and 3.5–4.0 meter-thick walls in close prox­im­ity to the existing shelter. The interior dimen­sions of both the Vor­bunker (forward bunker) (old) and the Fuehrer­bunker (new) were about 15 meters by 20 meters wide and a bit over 3 meters high.

As Red Army troops fought their way into the last square mile of Nazi-held Berlin at the end of April 1945, the bunker complex became the wedding venue and the grave­site of Hitler and Braun. On April 29, 1945, the two lovers were married in a brief civil cere­mony held in the small confer­ence/­map room (no. 28) adja­cent to Hitler's private quarters (nos. 25–27); he was 56, she was 33. Less than 40 hours later in Hitler's personal study (no. 25), Braun bit into a capsule of cya­nide and her hus­band fired a bullet into his right temple as he, too, bit into a cyanide cap­sule. Per the Fuehrer's verbal and written instruc­tions, pall bearers bore the corpses up the stairs and out the bunker's emer­gency exit (no. 21), poured gaso­line over them, and set them afire in the chan­cellery garden. After rendering their dead leader a last "Heil Hitler," the pall bearers scurried back into their underground sanctuary.

Taken in July 1947, this photo shows the massive first emer­gency exit of the main bunker (erster Notaus­gang des Haupt­bunkers), or the rear entrance to the Fuehrer­bunker (no. 21 in the schematic diagram above). Hitler and Eva Braun were cre­mated in a shell hole in front of the emer­gency exit that led into the chan­cel­lery garden. The cone-shaped struc­ture in the cen­ter of the photo (no. 37) served as an obser­va­tion tower and bomb shelter for the guards. An unfinished tower (no. 38), a ven­ti­lation tower, is partially hidden behind the tree.

Schematic diagram of the Fuehrer­bunker (left in image) and the Vor­bunker. The 16‑room Vor­bunker ("forward bunker," or ante­bunker) was located beneath the large hall that was added to the rear of the Old Reich Chan­cel­lery in 1939. The Vor­bunker was meant to be a tem­po­rary air raid shelter for Hitler, his guards, and ser­vants. It was offi­cially called the "Reich Chan­cel­lery Air Raid Shelter" until 1943, when con­struc­tion began that expanded the bunker com­plex with the addition of the 20‑room Fuehrer­bunker over 30 ft beneath the garden of the Old Reich Chancellery and to the Vor­bunker's south­west. The two bunkers were connected by a set of stairs.

Ava brown + Hitler's burnt "corpses" that were later destroyed by the KGB

Body of Blondi

Skull initially thought to be Hitler's

Lastly I'd like to leave this interview from Hitler's valet Heinz Linge, one of the last people to see Adolph Hitler alive. His account, if believed, raises some questions regarding the burial narrative we have all been taught.