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Hitler's Bunker and the Ruins of Berlin
« on: December 06, 2012, 11:57:24 PM »
Hitler’s Bunker and the Ruins of Berlin: Rare Photos

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In April 1945, as Russian and German troops fought — savagely, street by street — for control of the German capital, it became increasingly clear that the Allies would win the war in Europe. Not long after the two-week battle ended, 33-year-old LIFE photographer William Vandivert was on the scene, photographing Berlin’s devastated landscape.


William Vandivert—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Oberwallstrasse, in central Berlin, saw some of the most vicious fighting between German and Soviet troops in the spring of 1945

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Re: Hitler's Bunker and the Ruins of Berlin
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2012, 12:01:49 AM »
Between August 1940 and March 1945 American, RAF and Soviet bombers launched more than 350 air strikes on Berlin; tens of thousands of civilians were killed, and countless buildings — apartment buildings, government offices, military installations — were obliterated. Vandivert, LIFE reported, “found almost every famous building [in Berlin] a shambles. In the center of town GIs could walk for blocks and see no living thing, hear nothing but the stillness of death, smell nothing but the stench of death.”


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A new view of a photograph that appeared, heavily cropped, in LIFE, picturing Hitler's command center in the bunker, partially burned by retreating German troops and stripped of valuables by invading Russians

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Re: Hitler's Bunker and the Ruins of Berlin
« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2012, 12:05:58 AM »
Hundreds of thousands perished in the Battle of Berlin — including untold numbers of civilian men, women and children — while countless more were left homeless in the ruins. But it was two particular deaths, those of Adolf Hitler and his longtime companion and (briefly) wife Eva Braun, in a sordid underground bunker on April 30, 1945, that signaled the true, final fall of the Third Reich.


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Unpublished. In the typed notes (see next slide) that William Vandivert sent to LIFE's New York offices after getting to Berlin, he described his intense, harried visit to Hitler's bunker: "Note and note well," he wrote. "These pix were made in the dark with only candle for illumination ... Our small party of four beat all rest of mob who came down about forty minutes after we got there." Above: A 16th century Madonna and Child stolen from a Milan museum

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Re: Hitler's Bunker and the Ruins of Berlin
« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2012, 12:09:05 AM »

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With only candles to light their way, war correspondents examine a couch stained with blood (see dark patch on the arm of the sofa) located inside Hitler's bunker.

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« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2012, 12:12:34 AM »

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A ruined, empty and likely looted safe inside Hitler's bunker

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Re: Hitler's Bunker and the Ruins of Berlin
« Reply #5 on: December 07, 2012, 12:14:44 AM »

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Unpublished. LIFE correspondent Percy Knauth, left, sifts through debris in the shallow trench in the garden of the Reich Chancellery where, Knauth was told, the bodies of Hitler and Eva Braun were burned after their suicides.

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« Reply #6 on: December 07, 2012, 12:16:33 AM »

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Unpublished. Aerial view of bombed-out buildings and wrecked gasworks in and around the Schöneberg section of Berlin in 1945.

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Unpublished. An American soldier, PFC Douglas Page, offers a mocking Nazi salute inside the bombed-out ruins of the Berliner Sportspalast, or Sport Palace. The venue, destroyed during an Allied bombing raid in January 1944, was where the Third Reich often held political rallies and where Hitler and others frequently gave speeches.

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Unpublished. Russian soldiers and a civilian struggle to move a large bronze Nazi Party eagle that once loomed over a doorway of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin.

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Re: Hitler's Bunker and the Ruins of Berlin
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Unpublished. A common practice of soldiers throughout the centuries: scrawling graffiti to honor fallen comrades, insult the vanquished or simply announce, I was here. I survived. "Columns at entrance into Chancellery gardens," wrote Vandivert of this eerie scene, "showing bomb and artillery wreckage and names of Russians who fell fighting there."

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Re: Hitler's Bunker and the Ruins of Berlin
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Unpublished. An image almost too perfectly symbolic of Berlin in the spring of 1945: a crushed globe and a bust of Hitler amid rubble outside the Reich Chancellery

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Re: Hitler's Bunker and the Ruins of Berlin
« Reply #11 on: December 07, 2012, 12:42:21 AM »

Vandivert (above, in the early 1940s) was the first Western photographer to gain access to Hitler’s Führerbunker, or “shelter for the leader,” after the fall of Berlin, and a handful of his pictures of the bunker and the ruined city were published in LIFE magazine in July 1945. A few of those images are republished here; most of the pictures in this gallery, however, were never published in LIFE and vividly illustrate the surreal, disturbing scenes Vandivert encountered in the bunker and in the streets of the vanquished city beyond the bunker’s walls.

In his typed notes to his editors in New York, Vandivert described in detail what he saw. For example, of the sixth slide in this gallery, he wrote, “Pix of [correspondents] looking at sofa where Hitler and Eva shot themselves. Note bloodstains on arm of soaf [sic] where Eva bled. She was seated at far end … Hitler sat in middle and fell forward, did not bleed on sofa. This is in Hitler’s sitting room.” Remarkable stuff — but, it turns out, it’s only about half right. Historians are now quite certain that Braun committed suicide by biting a cyanide capsule, rather than by gunshot — meaning the bloodstains on the couch might well be Hitler’s after all.

A NOTE ON THE PHOTOGRAPHER: William Vandivert — who at 6 ft. 5 in. held the distinction of being the tallest photographer on staff — shot for LIFE from the late 1930s through the late ’40s. In 1947 he joined Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David “Chim” Seymour in founding the legendary Magnum photo agency. (Rita Vandivert, his wife, served as Magnum’s first president.) William Vandivert died in 1992.

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