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Throughout the last nine months of the Third Reich, from 23 July 1944 to 29 April 1945, Captain Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven daily attended Hitler's military briefings with his highest-ranking officers. He also watched?while recording his experiences in his private diaries?as increasingly, the gap widened between the reality of the war outside the bunker and Hitler's willful illusions of imminent victory in the face of absolute ruin. 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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This intriguing wartime memoir by von Loringhoven (b. 1914), the personal assistant of Hitler's last two chiefs of staff, chronicles his experiences as a German soldier finding himself inside Nazi Germany's Führerbunker, the bunker that housed Hitler during the last half of WWII. Von Loringhoven found himself within the crumbling, defeated world of the Führerbunker during the last months of the war. By war's end, the author says, he had the disagreeable impression of having been used as fodder for the adventures of a charlatan.

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Near the end of World War II Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven was appointed aide-de-camp to Hitler's headquarters and finally to the Berlin bunker, where he experienced the last nine months of the Third Reich. He died in 2007 in Munich.

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