This documentary produced by ZDF under the direction of journalist and historian Guido Knopp shows the last days in the nazi-bunker in Berlin. The focus is on the events from the 20th April 1945, Hitler’s last birthday , to the conquest of the bunker by the Red Army. During this timespan the marriage of Hitler and his longtime companion Eva Braun on 29 April 1945, Hitler’s suicide on 30 April 1945, the murder of Mr and Mrs Joseph and Magda Goebbels on their six children and the subsequent suicide of the parents occurred.
The main source of the film is the Moscow State Archive of Contemporary History, based on the interrogations of Hitler’s personal adjutant , Otto Günsche , as well as his valet Heinz Linge and contains hitherto unknown details. Fegelein, Himmler’s SS liaison to the Fuehrer’s headquarters, wasn’t shot at Hitler’s order. SS man Otto Günsche ordered the execution, because he wanted to set an example. Other sources are interviews with Hitler’s secretary Traudl Junge and former officers as Ulrich de Maizière and Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, as well as expert views of Hitler biographers, Ian Kershaw and Joachim Fest.