"A vivid reconstruction of the final weeks of Hitler's regime.
"Joachim Fest's Inside Hitler's Bunker is an up-to-date version of the old Trevor-Roper classic, The Last Days of Hitler, and in its own way, as much a classic."- Norman Stone, author of Hitler: The Final Years A lifetime of reflection on the Nazi period is distilled in a short, but elegantly written and incisive book."- Michael Burleigh, author of The Third Reich: A New History That he is also that country's greatest living journalist only adds to the incomparable way in which he tells the story of the last fourteen days of Hitler's life. "Fest is undoubtedly Germany's most distinguished historian of the Third Reich. "A stupendous story, and Fest, one of Germany's renowned historians of the Nazis, tells it well."- The Atlantic Monthly
Reviews About the Author Reviews Praise for Inside Hitler's Bunker Utterly unconcerned about the fate of Berlin's civilian population or of his soldiers, Hitler ordered that water and sewage systems, power plants, factories, roads, and railway lines throughout Germany be destroyed he commanded his dwindling armies, consisting largely of boys and old men, to fight on long after they had run out of ammunition and defeat had become a certainty.įrom the desperate battles that raged night and day in the ruins of Berlin, to the growing paranoia that marked Hitler's mental state, to his suicide and the efforts of his loyal aides to destroy his body before the advancing Russian armies reached the bunker, Fest recounts these days in spellbinding prose, while exploring a question that's never been satisfactorily answered: Was Hitler's rise the inevitable outcome of German history, or was it a unique phenomenon? Inside Hitler's Bunker combines meticulous research with compelling storytelling and sheds light on events that, for those who survived them, were indeed nothing less than the end of the world. Fest shows in chilling detail that the devastation was not only the result of Allied attacks but also of Hitler's determination to leave behind nothing but a wasteland. Nothing in recent history comes close to the cataclysmic events that took place during the spring of 1945, when the fall of the Nazi regime was accompanied by destruction of unequaled magnitude. Inside Hitler's Bunker, by the preeminent historian Joachim Fest, is a searing portrayal of the last weeks of the Third Reich.
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