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00:00Dresden
00:29The great, beautiful and historic city, so far barely touched by the war,
00:36believed by its inhabitants to be somehow inviolate,
00:40became, in the technical language of the experts, a severe case of overbombing.
00:46We had so many refugees who had come from the Eastern Front
00:52that at this point the city had swollen to double its size.
00:56The only man we had in the city was a veterans' hospital, was blind and crippled.
01:03The blind were trying to carry the cripples and they couldn't see their way.
01:08And some people who tried to walk along, they were pulled in by the fire.
01:13They all of a sudden disappeared right in front of you.
01:16There's such a draft in a firestorm like that.
01:21It's the most horrible thing.
01:23You have to save yourself or try to get as far away from the fire
01:27because the draft pulls you in.
01:29Next day came the Americans.
01:34A Western demonstration of support for the Russians now less than 100 miles away.
01:40Over 1,300 flying fortresses to pound the ruins of a city.
01:45The city was, of course, in flames, but after three days we had to go in
01:50and try to find the people and take them out of the ruins.
01:55And sometime a wash basin full contained 9, 10 people
02:00because their size had shrunk to just a small amount.
02:06I just couldn't believe that this was a whole person.
02:10And this picture is just terrible.
02:13I saw sometimes two people close together who may be in the spare head.
02:19There was one tiny little figure.
02:27In the center of the city, cordoned off from the survivors,
02:31they built great funeral piles.
02:35There was no time to dig individual graves.
02:40We had to make big mass graves.
02:42They tried to identify by jewelry or by belongings,
02:49but many people could not be identified.
02:57Later on the ruins you found inscription,
03:01Hans, are you alive?
03:04Martha, are you still in the ruins?
03:06Industrial damage was slight.
03:11The railway was working again in three days.
03:15But over 100,000 died.
03:18Dresden was another monument to total war.
03:22Tателей in the
03:45It's been a young man,
03:52THE END
04:22THE LAST NAZI NEWSREEL THE GERMAN SAW
04:29IT FEATURES SCRATCH UNITS IN ACTION ON THE EASTERN FRONT
04:33ON GERMAN SOIL
04:35THE SLOGANS NOW PLAY ON SEXUAL FEAR OF THE RED HORDES
04:42THE MAIN PROPAGANDA WEAPON
04:47STORIES OF RAPE
04:48STEREOTYPED ACCOUNTS BACKED BY DUBIOUS PICTURES
04:51IN WHICH THE CORPSES MAY FOR ONCE BE GERMAN
04:53TALES OF BRUTAL AND LICENTIOUS SOLDIERY
04:58TOLD IN THE STOCK LANGUAGE OF RACIAL HATRED
05:01BEASTS
05:02RAPE
05:02ANIMALS
05:03BESTIALITY
05:04REFUGEES FROM GERMANY'S EASTERN PROVINCES AND THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES
05:15FAMILIES WERE SEPARATED
05:18NEVER TO BE REUNITED
05:20THOUSANDS DIED FROM DROWNING
05:23THOUSANDS FROM SHELLING
05:24THE GREAT GERMAN REICH WAS SHRINKING
05:28THE GERMANS COMING HOME
05:32ON THE WESTERN FRONT
05:42THE ALLIED AIR FORCES RANGED AT WILL BEYOND THE RHINE
05:45PARALYSING ALL MOVEMENT IN PREPARATION FOR THE FINAL ASSAULT
05:49WITH BOMBS, ROCKETS AND CANNONFIRE
05:51THEY STRUCK AT BRIDGES, RAILWAYS, ROADS
05:55AT A SINGLE HORSE AND CAR
05:58IT WAS MY DUTY TO TELL HITLER
06:03THAT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF ARMAMENTS
06:06THE WAR WAS LOST
06:08AND I DID IT IN SEVERAL MEMORANDUMS
06:12AND THE HARSHEST ONE
06:13WAS THE 19TH OF MARCH 45
06:18IN WHICH I TOLD YOU VERY BLONTLY
06:21WHICH NOBODY DARED TO TELL
06:24THAT THE WAR WILL BE FINISHED
06:27WITHIN FOUR OR SIX WEEKS
06:28HITLER BOASTED OF LOSSES IN INFANTRY
06:31BEING MADE GOOD BY COUNTLESS NUMBERS OF NEW UNITS
06:34HE HIMSELF PRESENTED MEDALS TO HIS NEW RECRUTS
06:38WHAT THEY LACKED AN EXPERIENCE
06:40THEY MADE UP FOR IN NATIONAL SOCIALIST ARDOR
06:43A YOUNG COMPANY RUNNER REPORTS
06:45HOW HE CARRIED WEAPONS AFTER THE FRONT LINE
06:47HIS REWARD
06:56AN IRON CROSS SECOND CLASS
06:58MARCH 24TH
07:06THE RHINE CROSSING
07:08MONTGOMERY'S LAST SHOWPIECE BATTLE
07:12UPSTREAM THE AMERICANS SLIPPED ACROSS ALMOST UNOPPOST
07:17THE GOAL THE FIELD COMMANDERS HAD IN MIND
07:21BERLIN
07:29ACROSS THE RHINE NOW
07:38FROM THE DUTCH BORDER TO THE BLACK FOREST IN THE SOUTH
07:42THE ALLIED COLUMNS PUSHED ON INTO THE HEART OF GERMANY
07:45THROUGH SCENES THAT WERE THE COMMONPLACE OF WAR
07:54TOWNS AND VILLAGES THAT BURNED
07:57AS THE TOWNS AND VILLAGES OF POLAND, FRANCE, RUSSIA, Yugoslavia
08:03AND GREECE HAD BURNED
08:18BUT FOR THESE CIVILIANS, FOR THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN WHO SAW THE WAR GO PAST
08:22THERE WERE NO GHETTOS AND NO GAS CHAMBERS
08:26ONLY IN SOME, A SENSE OF ANGER
08:30THE FIRST TIME I HAVE HATED AGAINST HITLER AND THE NAZIS
08:37WAS NOT HATED AGAINST THE TERROR REGIME
08:41IT WAS HATED LIKE AMONG GANGSTERS
08:45HITLER PERMISED US TO WIN THE HALF OF THE WORLD
08:50AND HE ASKED US TO HELP HIM
08:53AND SO WE HAVE DONE
08:55AND NOW WE HAVE NOTHING
08:58WE HAVE ONLY OUR CLOSEST
09:00THE COLLAPSE OF NAZI GOVERNMENT HAD LEFT A VACUUM
09:03THE ADVANCING TROOPS WERE POLITICALLY INNOCENT
09:07THEIR METHODS WERE ROUGH AND READY
09:11THE BURGAMARCH IS THE FIRST ONE YOU MEET
09:13HE'D HAVE HIS SASH ON AND A BADGE OF OFFICE
09:15AND HE WOULD INFORM US THAT HE WAS NOT A NAZI
09:18THE TOWN COUNCIL WAS NOT
09:21AND WE WOULD PROBABLY ROUND THEM ALL UP
09:22AND SHIP THEM OUT
09:23BECAUSE WE KNEW WE HAD ALL THE NAZIS
09:25YOU PUT SOLDIERS WITH TOWNSPEOP
09:29AND AFTER THE FIRST COUPLE OF HOURS
09:33OF A SMALL AMOUNT OF TENSION
09:36WHEN BOTH PARTIES REALIZED
09:37THAT THE OTHER ONE WAS NOT GOING TO STAB THEM
09:39SUDDENLY
09:40WE'D FIND OURSELVES SWAPPING A HARD TACK OR CHOCOLATE
09:46FOR A COOKED MEAL BY ONE OF THE GERMAN FAMILIES
09:49AND THEY IN TURN WOULD SHOW US FAMILY PICTURES
09:54NOT UNIFORMED ONES
09:55AND YOU'D FIND A GI SHOWING HIS FAMILY TO THEM
09:58AND IT'S FUNNY HOW THE FEELING
10:01COULD CHANGE SO RAPIDLY
10:03SOME WOMAN CAME TO ME
10:05IN ADDITION TO TRYING TO OFFER ME HER OWN SERVICES
10:07SHE WAS TRYING TO OBTAIN SOMETHING ELSE
10:09AND I LOOKED AT HER
10:10AND I WAS FEELING PARTICULARLY MEAN THAT DAY
10:13MY FATHER WAS SICK
10:14AND THE RED CROSS HAD GIVEN ME INFORMATION
10:16THROUGH CABLE
10:17AND MY YOUNGER BROTHER-IN-LAW HAD BEEN KILLED
10:19IN GERMANY AND THE WAR JUST COME TO ME
10:21AND I WAS ABOUT READY TO TEAR ANYONE APART
10:23ANYWAY WITH MY OWN TWO HANDS
10:25AND SHE SAID TO ME
10:27AND I SAID, YOU KNOW, IN DESPERATION ALMOST
10:29I SAID, LOOK, DON'T BOTHER ME
10:30YOU KNOW, YOU'RE DEALING WITH A JEW
10:32YOU DON'T WANT TO HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH ME
10:33AND SHE LOOKED AT ME
10:34AND SHE SAID
10:35UBER ZEE ZIN DINE WEISER YOU
10:38WHICH YOU CAN TRANSLATE
10:40BUT YOU ARE A WHITE JEW
10:42AND I DID EVERYTHING TO RESTRAIN MYSELF
10:45AND JUST BELT IT RIGHT IN THE MOUTH
10:47THE CAMPS WERE OVERRUN
11:02MANY GERMANS HAVE KNOWN OF THEM
11:04OTHERS HAVE PREFERRED NOT TO KNOW
11:06NOW THEY WERE FORCED TO SEE
11:08IN ONE PLACE THE MAYOR AND HIS WIFE WENT HOME
11:23AND HANGED THEMSELVES
11:25THIS IS BUCHEN VALT
11:30THIS IS BUCHEN VALT
11:32SO THEIR TRANSLATE
11:33TURN THEM
11:42THEM
11:44ALLOS
11:46A WEEK
11:49ALLOS
11:52ALLOS
11:54ALLOS
11:56ALLOS
11:59ALLOS
12:01those who would survive deportation slave labor selection for the death camps starvation
12:18were from every country in europe of all callings of many religions many political faiths
12:26some turned on their oppressors
12:31allied prisoners were free
12:53german soldiers went into captivity
13:01yeah
13:23displaced persons ordinary germans prisoners of war
13:26passed on the roads and had nothing to say to each other germany was an antique some giant had kicked to
13:34pieces
13:44here and there looting brief opportunities to celebrate the collapse of the system
13:49the victors had their own views on law and order some property was still sacred
14:13in april 45 berlin was more ruins than a town mainly in the center of berlin
14:27the center of berlin one couldn't find almost no building which was still intact but it was my wish to
14:50have the berlin philharmonics having a concert the last time i knew that it would be my last concert for
14:57a long time perhaps forever and i
15:01and i um i invited um friends and and uh and uh and as much peace people as possible to go in we were
15:11sitting there in our coats uh because there was no heating it was cold and it was shivering and in this
15:18atmosphere of destruction and misery the concert started and we started with the last part of the gutter demo
15:30hitler no longer made public appearances more and more he withdrew to his underground headquarters beneath
15:42the imperial chancellery the bunker
15:47when i came back from this concert for the military conference we came in the bunker and
15:55hitler was almost out of his mind and goebbels was already there and hitler showed to us this just
16:03the virus they just received of the death of roosevelt and goebbels was jumping up and saying that's
16:11it that's it now we have it got it and now i think everything will turn to the better
16:18in the east over railway lines converted to the broad russian gauge the russian command
16:23was piling up vast supplies of material six armies were involved an object to smash the german
16:31forces on the approaches to berlin and take the capital of nazi germany
16:44on the 75th anniversary of lenin's birth the 16th of april 1945 the massed artillery opened fire
16:53the
17:06my heart was you know was going smaller and i i get very anxious because i knew that the attack began
17:21the first barrage was less effective than jukov had hoped the germans were still secure in their second line
17:35in the center of the front opposite berlin there were 400 guns to the mile to open a way for the assault tank
17:54the red army was over the order reinforcing and breaking out of its bridge heads
18:13the armored columns pushed ahead against desperate resistance some of our young boys you know they
18:20jumped out of the horse you know had their panzer fast and they were shooting to to the tanks and it
18:27destroyed all the four tanks and the others were shooting with their gun and and killed all the russian
18:33soldiers and the russian must have been before in a magazine like or in a factory in a sweet factory
18:43because they had all the arms full of sweet and chocolate everybody in our unit was 15 and 16 and
18:50they're running onto the street for the chocolate in the west it was a different story side-stepping
19:07pockets of the enemy the allied columns moved east
19:09you could pick up the telephone in those days and ring up the next village it's still german occupied
19:17and its chain was working and say hello what's happening down there and one had almost moved into a
19:23a dreamlike an unreal situation where one towns and villages flew by no resistance at all normal
19:31normal countryside no damage at all and uh every day one said to himself now surely this can't go on and
19:38uh certainly i think one's the thought of one's own survival after all this gradually became more
19:45and more uppermost when one did run into any sort of terminal resistance to me it was a matter of the
19:51half anger so what are these how dare these people prolong the agony anymore and of the other half was a
19:58so i'm the only blue front
20:06woodson a little town in northern germany 30 miles short of the elm here the germans did stand and fight
20:28there was an edginess now among the allied fighting men their fingers quick on the trigger their
20:36opponents were elite troops and officer cadets it took a four-day battle with considerable losses and
20:42many civilian deaths before resistance collapsed
20:56mostly the germans surrendered thankfully allowed their main aim to go into captivity with the anglo
21:13americans rather than with the russians on whose land and population they had inflicted such losses
21:18desperately they strove to reach safety in the west
21:38in the raw pocket over 300 000 men of army group b were surrounded and forced to surrender
21:44the western allies had achieved their main objective the destruction of the german land forces in the west
22:04it wasn't until the first half of april that he retired to the bunker because the air raids were
22:15getting worse and more frequent the bunker was divided up in such a way that in the lower area
22:28there was a military conference chamber with an anti-room which led to hitler's study
22:35his workroom and bedroom led off this anti-room and also a room with a bathroom for eva braun
22:46there were some women in hitler's former life who were important for him but i think
22:53uh since uh during the last time there was nobody as near and as close to him like eva braun she loved him
23:04really and she came surprisingly to berlin and when she arrived hitler tried to seem angry but he didn't
23:12he wasn't successful his eyes were so full of joy and he was obviously so happy that she was there
23:20um that nobody um tried to to send her back the russians were now firing on berlin itself their forward
23:37troops already in the outskirts fighting their way from street to street
23:43so um came his birthday the 20th of april and there came the congratulations and everybody shook him
23:55his hand and wished him the best and and it was but it was all very depressed it was not a happy birthday
24:05um and when the official part was over hitler retired at once but eva braun she invited some of the
24:15peoples to go upstairs in her little living room to make a birthday party and one found a record
24:24hit a song like to dance a dance music music and so we sat around the table and tried to forget our
24:33our our miserable situation and and there was laughing and joking and and everybody um drank and and
24:42giggled and gackled and it was um a very artificial um sort of of gayness
24:54after that there was another conference on the situation but it was already apparent that it was
25:00getting near the end rice lighter bormann said to me that i should put everything in motion
25:10so that we would have luggage ready in case of a possible move to the berghof in berchtesgaden
25:16she refused absolutely and said no i cannot go i cannot leave berlin i have to make a decision here
25:30in berlin or i have to go under and this was the first one the first time that he ever
25:39uh mentioned uh mentioned the possibility that we could not win we that he mentioned uh the the chance of
25:50of defeat and i remember the april 20th 1945 that was the birthday of adolf hitler and in the radio there was
26:01a speech of joseph goebbels and he said berlin will remain german and vienna will germ will be german again
26:13and my mother said god thanks we will win the war and i said mother you were wrong and goebbels is wrong
26:24it's terrible but i'm quite sure the war is over and we will lose the war and my mother said do you think
26:33in this hour goebbels will tell us a lie
26:52the battle for berlin itself was extremely difficult it had to be taken street by street house by house
27:00some of them nine and ten stories high and there were lots of these houses
27:08the fascists held out on every floor they had also set up barricades in every street
27:13they converted the main buildings into strong points against us
27:29we are in berlin now and in this evening we just visited my mother and you know she was very
27:42really crying because she thought maybe i'm dead or something and um it was late in the evening and we
27:51wanted to sleep there but some men of the house they came and they said it's impossible you can't sleep
27:59here because the russian they are not far from here and if they arrive here by night and they see you
28:05here with this guns and so maybe maybe they will shoot us so we couldn't sleep there we went over the street
28:13there was a school and we slept there
28:18on the 21st we went on together into the outer ring of the suburbs of berlin
28:31berlin itself the order of the day of our high command reverberated through the whole country
28:40they were heard throughout the world our soldiers have broken into berlin
28:52the russians had worked out their tactics in detail using models of streets and buildings
28:57behind the apparent chaos of the street fighting lay a precise plan to encircle the city and strike
29:03at the center some of these troops had come all across russia through territory the retreating germans
29:09had looted burn destroy berliners sheltering in their cellars wondered what their fate would be
29:23at russian house even the children had not been evacuated they all lived in cellars
29:37i went into the cellars and remember most of all the repetition of this phrase
29:41when will this nightmare end suddenly on april 22nd i think yes there he come out of the military
29:57conference with a totally stony face and and dark threatened eyes and he called us to come to this little
30:11anteroom and he sent for eva brown and for the secretaries and for the secretary of for the cook who was still in berlin
30:22who cooked for him and then he came in and said with a monotone voice and so unkindly as we never have heard him speak to us
30:33ladies please pack your things at once you have to go to the south the last the last airplane starts
30:44in about an hour and then was a silent no he said it's it's all lost there's no there's no hope you have to go
30:54and then was a moment of absolute silence and we stood like shocked and
31:03suddenly if a brown made a few steps went to hitler and said but you know i don't leave you i stay on your
31:14side you know that don't try to send me away and then hitler did something very astonishing what he never
31:24did and nobody had ever seen such a guest he kissed her on his on her lips
31:32and then it happened that the other girls and and me too we heard us saying we we stayed too
31:43the situation in the bunker was a fantastic one one really can't uh unrealistic one one really can't
31:58describe how is how the moods went on and off like waves sometimes they were all exhilarating and were
32:10thinking well now the western troops coming for uh release of berlin goebbels was exclaiming one of the
32:20biggest decisions of hit of uh war hitler just made he was he is now um determined to uh no more to fight
32:31against the western only to the east in berlin and this will mean that the western powers will
32:39will join us in our fight against russia and such things happened every now and then and then a few
32:47minutes afterwards everybody was speaking about uh suicide and how they are preparing it goebbels in
32:55details uh was saying how he will let his children killed which were already in the bunker after a few
33:07days the telegram came from gearing which said mein führer no longer my beloved führer just my führer
33:18i know that you are now totally cut off and are no longer in possession of full freedom to command
33:32according to the law of succession i will now step into your position and will undertake to represent
33:39germany both in internal and external matters yours goering your goering
33:50hitler was so worked up over this he sat in his chair and could not grasp it at first
34:00this was added to by borman who added fuel to the fire somewhat so that hitler then said
34:06hitler then that to give me an ultimatum that really is the end one day there came um one of the men
34:16of the press bureau press office and um brought the news um he had i think he had heard it by uh radio
34:25from reuter uh news agency that um himmler had have negotiations with uh graf bernard dot
34:36for capitulation and hitler was very upset because he held himmler for his most faithful paladin
34:46and the most reliable one and now he saw that also he had tried to betray him he remembered suddenly
34:55that the poison which he had um to use for himself um were given to him from one of himmler's staff and he
35:05mistrusted that it may affect perhaps uh himmler tried a dirty trick and and gave him something like
35:15what only make him unconsciousness unconscious so that um he could be transported against his will out of
35:24the bunker and uh delivered to the enemy and to to test this he um ordered um a doctor to try to test
35:35this uh poison capsule at the dog so he said farewell to this creature i think it was next if a brown
35:46this one this one who stood next to him and blondie died very promptly
36:00for a tiny handful of german anti-nazis the russians came as liberated
36:21on tuesday morning the 24th in the morning we suddenly saw the the gestapo had disappeared
36:30during the night the whole prison was given over to normal normal prison
36:35guards old men loved nice men and when we saw that the many of the uniforms the the the the
36:45the gestapo guards had put away there we said now when the russians take over
36:54you are the man who will be killed not me not we let us out they were very
37:00uh they said no we can't do that tonight the gestapo will come back
37:07and then we made in the afternoon of tuesday we made a made an agreement with them and said look we
37:12will we will put out ourselves we the prisoners some guards on the roof and observe the coming near
37:21of the of the russian front and in the minute we hear a russian gunfire not only the artillery shelly
37:30then you let us out they said all right when the door was open at the prison there was with us
37:36a jewish russian doctor who was in concentration inmate of sachsenhausen the the famous and he i
37:43don't know by what reason was a month ago was brought by the gestapo to our prison to do the
37:51most dirty jobs in the prison all the time and we couldn't contact him much but we knew him of course
37:58then he stood there on the street and where to go as a russian and i said look come with us my my
38:06mother-in-law will feed you you can't become in our basement and he went with me when the first units
38:12of the russians came two days later he meet them on the door addressing them the russian here all
38:19he are all anti-fascists in this in this basement when the russian came in in the end we found
38:28at least we found the first lot the fighting troops which came in they took away our watches of course
38:36and they were very cautious and we could understand that they took away things they liked but they
38:44behaved very businesslike they stayed in this house here and they lived in this room three or four of
38:51them are quite high officers and they got up in the morning at eight o'clock and then at nine o'clock they
38:58went out to the tier garden which isn't very far from here and behind the tier garden is or was the
39:04chancery where hitler was still alive and fighting they went out and did their job and came back
39:11back five o'clock in the afternoon shop and then they asked me down here to play the piano and
39:23give them a little tune and then we drank together we sang together suddenly we saw the first russian
39:33soldiers they knocked at our door came in and were very kind said to my mother and to me if there were
39:49german soldiers in the house or asked for weapons and then they left but the next russians were quite
40:01different um one of them raped me and uh other inhabitants of the house two women who were living
40:12next door they were killed and we weren't able to bury them because the shelling was still going on
40:19when the russians came along and they asked us where are your women we want to have your women
40:27they said in german or they call german so i had the trick or i found the trick to take them to these
40:37two dead bodies i opened the carpet and said this is my frau here i can't supply you with any women
40:45these are the only two women we we knew here which we had and the russians kneeled down some of them
40:55and made the cross and said little prayers which was very astounding and got up again and kissed me
41:04because they thought i was the widower and gave me presents gave me cigarettes gave me bread
41:15clapped my mommy on my shoulder and went off again and got what they wanted probably the next house or in
41:23the next street every night time i used to go home to see my mother and have get something to eat
41:30and some cigarettes and so because we didn't get any food at daytime and my mother was was every time
41:41every night she was very lucky to see me again naturally and so my mother asked me and also other
41:49people from from our house they asked me just take your uniform out stay here and and don't go back to
41:56to fighting and and always i said no i i can't do it i couldn't stay at home safe you know and they are
42:06still fighting
42:15dukov called the battle of berlin one of the most difficult battles of the war
42:19it cost the russians over a hundred thousand men
42:26total german losses are unknown
42:48The storming of Berlin continued.
43:04The encircling ring around the whole city and around the center of Berlin itself was being drawn tighter and tighter.
43:12Only a few hundred yards separated us from the viper's nest of Hitler's headquarters.
43:17The imperial chancellery.
43:20Then he began my last will.
43:25And then he dictated me at first his private will and afterwards his political testimony.
43:35And I must confess that I was at first in a very excited mood
43:46because I expected that I would be the first and the only one who knows,
43:56who is going to know the explanation and the declaration why the war had come to this end.
44:05And why Hitler couldn't stop and why the development and why it's a catastrophe.
44:14I thought, now I will come to the moment of the truth.
44:21And I was heart-bumping when I wrote down what Hitler said.
44:28But he used nothing new.
44:32He came out with his old phrases.
44:38He repeated his accusations,
44:43his revenge swearing to the enemy and to the Jewish capitalistic system.
44:53And then he announced in the second part of the history of the political testament,
45:04he announced a new government.
45:07Eva Braun had by now persuaded the Führer to the point
45:17where he actually wanted to improvise a marriage service to her.
45:28To do this, they got an official from the propaganda ministry
45:34who would fulfill the function of registrar.
45:41I joined the others in this little workroom of Hitler
45:46and they were sitting there around the table
45:50and so I had to congratulate Eva Braun
45:55and I was a little shy what to say.
46:02And I shake a hand to her and she said,
46:05oh, you can say Mrs. Hitler to me now.
46:09And I did.
46:09On the rocket, this is for the Reichstag.
46:20Others said, remember Stalingrad.
46:24Remember the Ukraine.
46:26Remember the widows and children.
46:29Remember the tears.
46:33Hitler had now drawn his conclusions.
46:37He said farewell to everybody.
46:43I was the last one he came to.
46:47Hitler said to me,
46:49I have given the order to break out.
46:55You should break out in groups.
46:58Join one of these groups and try to get through to the West.
47:01Then I asked Hitler,
47:07for whom should we fight on for now?
47:11And to that Hitler said in a monotone,
47:15for the coming man.
47:17I saluted him.
47:19He gave me his hand
47:21and I disappeared out of the room.
47:24Suddenly there was a bang.
47:26There was a shot
47:28and it was obviously within the bunker
47:33because the noises of the outside shooting,
47:41we know how they sound.
47:45And the little boy of Goebbels,
47:51he noticed,
47:52and he noticed that there was another sound.
47:56He said,
47:56Oh,
47:57that was a bull eye.
47:59That was a bull's eye.
48:02And I
48:02thought,
48:04Yes,
48:04you are right.
48:05That was really a bull's eye.
48:06I went into Hitler's workroom
48:12with the former Reichsleiter Bormann
48:15and this picture presented itself to us.
48:21Hitler was sitting on the left of the sofa
48:24with his face bent slightly forward
48:27and hanging down to the right.
48:31With the 7.65,
48:32he had shot himself in the right temple.
48:36The blood had run down onto the carpet
48:40and from this pool of blood,
48:43a splash had got onto the sofa.
48:53Eva Braun was sitting on his right.
48:58Eva Braun had drawn both her legs up
49:01onto the sofa
49:02and was sitting there with cramped lips
49:05so that it immediately
49:06became clear to us
49:08that she had taken cyanide.
49:14I took Hitler
49:15by his neck.
49:17Behind me were two other officers
49:19from his bodyguard.
49:21And so we took Hitler's body
49:26and proceeded with it
49:28into the park.
49:33In the park,
49:34we laid the bodies together
49:36next to each other
49:38and poured the available petrol
49:41over them.
49:42in the Reich's chancellery park,
49:46there was fire all around.
49:51A draft had got up
49:53so that we could not set the corpses alight
49:56with an ordinary match.
49:58So I twisted a taper
50:06out of some paper
50:07from a notebook
50:08and Reichleiter Bormann,
50:11who meanwhile
50:12had also come upstairs
50:13with others
50:14like Dr. Goebbels,
50:16Bergdorf
50:16and some officers,
50:19lit the taper
50:20and I threw the taper
50:22onto the bodies
50:23and in an instant
50:26the corpses
50:27were set alight.
50:39That night
50:40we were the first
50:40to take the fight
50:41into the chancellery itself.
50:43Our objective
50:48was to be the planting
50:49of our banner
50:50on the building itself.
50:54It was a group of us.
50:56Our group consisted of me,
50:58Salajan,
50:59Alimov
50:59and Uzbek
51:00who was the young communist
51:01organizer of our battalion.
51:03He and his young communists
51:05had fought through
51:05with us together.
51:07They protected me
51:08so that I could fight
51:09my way in
51:09to hoist the flag.
51:11They gave me the banner
51:12to enable me
51:13to get into the building
51:13itself and hoist it up.
51:16Having got into the building
51:17we started making our way
51:19up the staircase
51:19towards the attic.
51:24Some fascists
51:25opened up on us
51:25and Salajan
51:26was hit in the head
51:27and fell.
51:30His friends rushed
51:31forward to him
51:32while I had to make it
51:33upstairs to plant the banner.
51:42And having made my way
51:44onto the roof
51:44through a shell hole
51:45I secured our red banner
51:47with a length
51:48of telegraph wire.
51:49when the armies
52:03of East and West
52:04met in the heart
52:05of Germany
52:05there was a brief
52:07moment
52:07of warmth
52:08and commeridge.
52:09Well, we can't speak
52:12lingo
52:12but we can't fight
52:12the same way
52:13together, come on.
52:13Yes.
52:15Well, all the best
52:16old men.
52:17I'm very, very glad
52:18to have met you.
52:19Very glad indeed.
52:21Thank you very much.
52:27We don't understand
52:27the language
52:28but we mean
52:28the same thing.
52:29The Red Army
52:47saw themselves
52:47as liberators
52:48not avengers.
52:59But the crimes
53:02of Hitler's Reich
53:02had to be paid for.
53:04It was the ordinary
53:05German who paid.
53:06The Red Army
53:36The Red Army
54:06The Red Army
54:18The Red Army
54:18The Red Army
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