The bunker - Hitler's end

Movie
Original title	The bunker - Hitler's end
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2005
length	45 minutes
Age rating	FSK or al.
Rod
Director	Jörg Müllner
script	Jörg Müllner
production	Jörg Müllner
music	Enjott Schneider
camera	Pavel Fugurski
cut	Sven Ritzkowski
occupation
Speaker: Christian Brückner Helmut Winkelmann Experts: Ian Kershaw , Hitler Biographer Matthias Uhl , editor of "The Book of Hitler" Joachim Fest , Hitler biographer Contemporary witnesses: Rochus Misch , operator in the bunker Ulrich de Maizière , General Staff Officer Traudl Junge , Hitler's secretary Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven , Adjutant to the Chief of Staff Cancer Kurt Larson , SS man in the " Führer Accompanying Command " Otto Busse, SS man married in the bunker Artur Axmann , " Reich Youth Leader " Ernst-Günther Schenck , SS doctor

The Bunker - Hitler's End is a TV documentary produced by director Jörg Müllner in 2005 on behalf of ZDF under the direction of Guido Knopp , which shows the last few days in the so-called Führerbunker . The subject is the events from April 20, 1945, Hitler's last birthday, up to the capture of the bunker by the Red Army . During this period, Hitler and his long-term partner Eva Braun married on April 29, 1945, the Hitler's joint suicide on April 30, 1945, the murder of the married couple Joseph and Magda Goebbels of their six children and the subsequent suicide of their parents.

The central source of the film is a dossier (“File No. 462a - Report on Hitler and his Surroundings”) about the events that the NKVD prepared for Josef Stalin in 1949 in the Moscow State Archives for Contemporary History . It is based on the interrogations of Hitler's personal adjutant, Otto G possibly , and his valet Heinz Linge and contains details that were not known to date. Fegelein, Himmler's SS liaison man at the Führer Headquarters, is said not to have been shot at Hitler's instigation; on the contrary, the SS man Otto Günsch wanted to make an example. The question of whether Hitler poisoned himself or shot himself can also be clearly answered according to this file: Hitler definitely shot himself.

The film also shows interviews with Hitler's secretary Traudl Junge and former officers such as Ulrich de Maizière and Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven . The experts from Hitler biographers Ian Kershaw and Joachim Fest have their say.

The first broadcast took place on Tuesday, April 12, 2005, at 8.15 p.m. on ZDF. The station has an audience of 3.56 million with a market share of 10.8%.

See also

• The Downfall (other, dramatized film adaptation of the topic)
• The Bunker (1981) (Another, dramatized film adaptation of the topic)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Henrik Eberle / Matthias Uhl (ed.): The book Hitler. NKVD secret dossier for Josef W. Stalin, compiled on the basis of the interrogation protocols of Hitler's personal adjutant, Otto G possibly, and the valet Heinz Linge, Moscow 1948/49 . From the Russian by Helmut Ettinger; with a foreword by Horst Möller; Gustav Lübbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2005, ISBN 3785722265 ( table of contents , PDF , 6 kB).
2. ^ ZDF: Yearbook 2005 - Contemporary History .