Sir Alan Bullock and other historians have documented in fascinating detail the last days, in the Berlin bunker, of Adolf Hitler and his Third Reich, even as the Soviet Red Army approached and then prepared to cross the Rhine River and breach the last German defense of Berlin. The bizarre rituals of Hitler in his bunker included regular Army staff meetings, as if they had any meaning, marrying his long time mistress Eva Braun, various complications from his rapidly deteriorating health, accommodating his propaganda chief Goebbels and family in the bunker, meeting the Hitler Youth (underage child recruits used in the defense of Berlin), farewells to staff fleeing Berlin and finally his own suicide as the last German defenses crumbled around him.
