In the Bunker with Hitler
Author(s): Bernd Freytag Von Loringhoven
In the last catastrophic week of Hitler's regime Loringhoven, now holed up night and day in the bunker, saw the final hopes of officers and staff dissolve into drink and fade into suicidal despair. He saw, too, his chance to survive: On April 29, when all communications in the bunker broke down--and with Hitler's unexpected blessing--he left. On April 30 Hitler was dead.
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Von Loringhoven is the only living person to have experienced the events portrayed in THE DOWNFALL The author was a combat veteran, and a much better informed eyewitness than Traudl Junge Praise for IN THE BUNKER WITH HITLER: 'His sketches of senior and very senior officers, whom he knew personally, form useful addenda to our knowledge of the German army' Spectator
A career soldier, Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven was one of the lucky few officers ordered out of the Sixth Army in January 1943. Appointed ADC to General Guderian, then General Krebs, he served at Hitler's HQ in East Prussia and then in the Berlin bunker. After the war he joined the West German army and served as a staff officer in various NATO postings.
General Fields
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- : Orion Publishing Group, Limited
- : Orion
- : 0.188
- : 21 March 2007
- : 198mm X 129mm X 15mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Bernd Freytag Von Loringhoven
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 943.086092
- : 208
- : Biography & autobiography; European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); Warfare & defence
- : Illustrations
