Hitler -- The Last Ten Days (1973)
Alec Guiness, Simon Ward, Adolfo Celi, Diane Cilento, Gabriele Ferzetti, Eric Porter, Doris Kunstmann
Director: Ennio de Concini
Country: British-Italian film
1945
April -- Hitler moves into his bunker in Berlin as the Soviet troops descending on the capital city. His girlfriend Eva Braun, age 33, was with him, along with several high-ranking Nazi ministers: top aide Martin Bormann and Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. Goebbels had his wife and six children with him in the bunker.
April 23 -- Hitler had designated Herman Goering as his successor back in 1941. This day Hiters is infuriated when he receives a telegram from Goering safe for now in the south at Berchtesgaden, saying that if Hiter did not respond by 10pm, he (Goering) would become the Reich's leader.
April 25 -- Goering arrested by the SS.
April 28th -- Hitler learns Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler was negotiating with the Allies and discussing German surrender. Hitler orders Himmler's arrest and that Himmler's personal representative in the bunker (Eva Braun's brother-in-law) shot.
April 29th -- Hitler marries Eva Braun in a civil ceremony in the bunker.
April 30 -- Hitler and Eva say goodbye to the remaining bunker staff. In their private room Eva swallows poison and Hitler takes a cyanide pill while shooting himself in the right temple. Goebbels and Bormann found the bodies. The bodies were creamated.
April 31 -- Goebbels and his wife poison their six children and then have the SS orderly shoot them in the back of the head.
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