The military project undertaken by the Nazi State is notably understood through the measures that preceded the conflicts of World War II. Adolf Hitler, top head of the new German government, calculatedly planned the risks and implications that a world conflict could bring to Germany and to himself. Perhaps for this reason, as early as 1933, the füher took care to build an air raid shelter in the underground part of the German government headquarters.
This construction, which became known as the “Hitler's bunker”, was not actually completely finished. When the Soviet invasion began to take over the streets of the capital Berlin, the secret decision-making center of Nazi Germany still gained guardhouses and watchtowers responsible for protecting the place. When discovered, the bunker had sixteen rooms in which were scattered game rooms, dormitories, kitchen, cafeteria, servants' rooms and meeting rooms.
In the last few months leading up to the end of World War II, Hitler turned that shelter into a headquarters from which he conducted the military actions of his troops. Contrary to what it looked like, the underground shelter was very well ventilated and had a sustaining infrastructure of reasonable comfort for Hilter and his followers.
The intensification of military conflicts at the time ended up attracting the main leaders of the Hitler regime, along with their families, to the bunker cellars. In addition to becoming a political-military decision-making center, the last focus of resistance by the Nazi leadership it also had a military hospital and a ward to protect the homeless and women pregnant women.
The German resistance symbolized by the activities in the bunker did not come together regularly until April 30, 1945. On that fateful occasion, Hitler bid farewell to his closest men and held a luncheon with them. After that, he retired to his quarters with his wife Eva Braun. Suddenly, the noise of a gunshot erupted in the Nazi leader's room.
The Nazi military arrived at the scene finding their leader with his head mangled by a pistol projectile. Eva Braun, with no sign of injury, had succumbed after ingesting a small cyanide capsule. Immediately, the bodies of Hitler and Eva were removed from the scene and incinerated with a large amount of fuel.
After that, other great Nazi military leaders also decided to end their own lives. Those who did not opt for such a measure, tried to escape through the tunnels that connected the bunker to the Berlin subway. Soon, the rumors about the death of the fuhrer they impelled several soldiers and commanders to accede to the Soviet advance. Thus, on May 2, 1945, Russian troops took Hitler's last home.
By Rainer Sousa
Graduated in History
Brazil School Team
20th century - wars - Brazil School
Source: Brazil School - https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/guerras/o-bunker-hitler.htm
