Hitler’s final days were spent in the so-called Führerbunker, a subterranean bomb shelter complex beneath the Reich Chancellery. Originally constructed in the mid-1930s as a standard air-raid ...

The rule of the Third Reich was coming to its spectacular and violent finale. A demented, wild-eyed Hitler hid in his bunker under the Reich Chancellery as the Red Army surrounded Berlin and ...

The Führer had spent the war’s final weeks in a fortified bunker beneath the Reich Chancellery building. Interpreter Elena Rzhevskaya, then 25, helped comb through the warren of underground ...

Why did German soldiers fight on beyond Hitler’s suicide and the fall of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin? How could they inflict so much destruction during World War II on other Europeans and ...

A team of Soviet detectives conducted last week that if Adolf Hitler was dead, he had not died in the ruins of his Reich Chancellery. Led by quiet, blue-eyed, middle-aged Major Ivan Nikitine ...

The ‘leather’ cloth-bound directory was recovered from the Reich Chancellery in Berlin at the end of World War II by Capt. John Hodge, an officer in the British Grenadier Guards, according to ...

In the garden of the Reich Chancellery, Berlin, 1945. William Vandivert—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Not published in LIFE. Bullet-riddled sentry pillbox outside Hitler's bunker, Berlin, 1945.

The Führer had spent the war’s final weeks in a fortified bunker beneath the Reich Chancellery building. Interpreter Elena Rzhevskaya, then 25, helped comb through the warren of underground ...

In early May German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder moves into a gleaming new office building with commanding views of Berlin. The last time this city had a new Chancellery, its most important ...

He lived between Hitler's apartments in the New Reich Chancellery and the home in a working-class Berlin neighborhood that he kept until his death." 'He was a wonderful boss,' Misch said.