In Hitler's Bunker

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In Hitler's Bunker

A Boy Soldier's Eyewitness Account of the Führer's Last Days

Autobiography: historical, political and military Warfare and defence European history Modern warfare Second World War

Authors: Armin Lehmann, Tim Carroll

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Language: English

Published by: Mainstream Digital

Published on: 12th August 2011

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 340 Kb

ISBN: 9781780573021


During the last months of Hitler's Berlin

An estimated 30,000 German teenagers perished defending their beloved Führer in the Russian onslaught. Armin Lehmann was one of the few boy soldiers who escaped the bloodbath. Like every other member of the Hitler Youth, Armin would have given his life gladly for his leader, but he was not to be sacrificed to the enemy at the gate. Instead, he was chosen to serve in the German High Command's bunker complex. It was a stroke of fate that brought him into the company of the most notorious Nazis of Hitler's hated Reich, including Martin Bormann, Goebbels, and, of course, the Führer himself. When Hitler greeted Armin, the 16-year-old boy knew he had been granted a unique part in history.

In Hitler's Bunker

is Armin's eyewitness account of the Nazi apocalypse. It is also the story of how his unquestioning fanaticism won him that role in the final act of the Third Reich. It takes us back to his boyhood and the brutal SS father who instilled the Nazi's hateful creed in his son. It follows Armin's odyssey through the ranks of the Hitler Youth and shares his teenage anguish over his doomed love for a beautiful German nurse. It is the story of Armin's gradual realisation of the full horror of what he had been part of, and recounts his quest for the truth, which took him in the footsteps of Mahatma Ghandi and to a meeting with Albert Schweitzer, the missionary and theologian. Above all, In Hitler's Bunker is the story of how one man, instead of running away from his past, confronted it and found peace, at last.

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