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Joachim Fest
German historiographer (1926–2006)
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Early survival and career
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Inside Hitler's Bunker
2002 book by Joachim Fest
| Author | Joachim Fest |
|---|---|
| Language | German |
| Subject | Adolf Hitler |
| Published | 2002 |
| Publication place | Germany |
Inside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich (German: Der Untergang: Hitler und das Ende des Dritten Reiches) is a book by historian Joachim Fest about the last days of the life of Adolf Hitler, in his Berlin Führerbunker in 1945.
The book was originally published in Germany in 2002. The English translation was released in 2004. The book formed source material for the 2004 German film Der Untergang (The Downfall) in 2004.
Publications
[edit]- Original German version: Fest, Joachim (2002). Der Untergang: Hitler und das Ende des Dritten Reiches; eine historische Skizze. Berlin: Alexander Fest Verlag. ISBN .
- First US version: Fest, Joachim (2004). Inside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. ISBN .
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Inside Hitler's Bunker
By 1945, Hitler had developed a vast concrete bunker of interconnected chambers thirtythree feet beneath the surface of Berlin. In the last months of the war, while desperate battles raged in the ruins above, the Fuhrerbunker was to become the setting for the most dramatic final act in modem history: the collapse of the Third Reich. In this compelling new reconstruction, Germany's greatest historian of Nazism, Joachim Fest, describes in vivid detail the claustrophobic atmosphere of those bitter last days, when a drugged and enfeebled Hitler veered wildly between hysterical despair and lunatic optimism. Using newly available material and drawing on years of meticulous research, Fest shows us how the Nazi regime finally disintegrated amidst acts of betrayal, recrimination and suicide. He also reveals how these desperate last scenes offer fresh insight into the true nature of Hitler and his entourage.