Hitler's bunker in the spring of 1945
In April 1945 the Red Army waged fierce battles on the streets of Berlin, meter by meter conquering the capital of the Reich. It was obvious who would win the war in Europe. With the death of Adolf Hitler's April 30, 1945 was the end of the Third Reich. In the battle for Berlin, killing hundreds of thousands of people, including anyone not exactly taken into account civilian casualties.
Shortly after the completion of a two-week siege of the city came to Berlin 33-year-old photographer William Vendayvert LIFE. Here is his previously unpublished photographs, which he did in the ruins of Berlin, and in the bunker of Hitler.
discuss photo (0) | A. Vendayvert was the first Western photographer to receive access to Hitler's bunker. Some photos taken by them, LIFE was published in July 1945, but most of the pictures from this collection have never been published. In the photo, one of the rooms in the command bunker, burnt by the retreating Germans and purified from the surviving values of the advancing Soviet troops. (William Vandivert / TIME & LIFE Pictures) | # . |
discuss photo (0) | Two. Obervalshtrasse, the center of Berlin. Here in the spring of 1945 were the most brutal battles. (William Vandivert / TIME & LIFE Pictures) | # . |
discuss photo (0) | Three. Painting of the 16th century, the Germans abducted from a museum in Milan. Vendayvert wrote about this in the editorial: "We had to take pictures in the dark, using a light one candle - light in the room was not. Our group ahead of everyone else who came only forty minutes later." (William Vandivert / TIME & LIFE Pictures) | # . |
discuss photo (0) | 4. The first 20 pages of records Vendayverta made to editors in New York. Photographer describes not only the footage shot on each film, but also the mood and atmosphere in the bunker of Hitler and the Reich Chancellery ("look at the Office ... it bombed, burned and shot to hell"). (William Vandivert / TIME & LIFE Pictures) | # . |
discuss photo (0) | Five. Illuminating the dark corridors with candles, correspondents examine the sofa, covered with blood stains. Vandayvert writes: "Photos correspondents, considering the sofa on which shot themselves Hitler and Eva Braun. Eva sat at the far end, and Hitler in the middle. Then Hitler fell to the floor." This proved to be only half true. Historians believe that Eva Braun committed suicide with cyanide, and not a gun, so that the blood on the couch was not the blood of Eve. (William Vandivert / TIME & LIFE Pictures) | # . |
discuss photo (0) | 6. The correspondent of Percy Knauth exploring the dirt and debris on the bottom of the trench in the garden of the Reich Chancellery, which is said to commit suicide after the bodies were burned Hitler and Eva Braun. Entries Vendayverta "broken-down bird feeders on the tree ... these were hung everywhere in Berchtesgaden (Hitler's estate in the Bavarian Alps). Probably meant a lot to him." (William Vandivert / TIME & LIFE Pictures) | # . |
discuss photo (0) | 7. The famous "dead head" - the emblem of the SS - barely visible under a layer of mold. Cap lying on the floor hopper, drenched with water. (William Vandivert / TIME & LIFE Pictures) | # . |
discuss photo (0) | Eight. The phrase "violence and looting" sounds in the medieval, but perfectly describes the actions of Soviet troops in conquered Berlin. It is foolish to deny it, because no army in the history of warfare has not been completely sinless in this respect. Not surprisingly, the Soviet troops cleared the bunker from the fact that the Germans have taken with them and burned during the retreat. (William Vandivert / TIME & LIFE Pictures) | # . |
discuss photo (0) | 9. Vendayvert writes: "Almost all the famous buildings of Berlin lay in ruins. In the heart of the soldiers could pass along a few blocks without seeing a soul, feeling only the smell of death." In the photo: view bombed Schöneberg district of Berlin. From August 1940 to March 1945, American, British and Soviet bombers carried out a total of more than 350 air raids on the city. Killed tens of thousands of civilians. (William Vandivert / TIME & LIFE Pictures) | # . |
discuss photo (0) | 10. Allied forces (British, American, French and Soviet) gained control of Berlin, but this does not mean that they rest on their laurels. Hard work was carried out to restore order in the devastated city. On the shoulders of a soldier who wanted to return home, fell woes of an entire people. In the photo: Private First Class Douglas Paige in Berlin Sports Palace stands on the site where you would normally deliver their speeches Hitler. The building was destroyed during the bombing of January 30, 1944. (William Vandivert / TIME & LIFE Pictures) | # . |
discuss photo (0) | 11. The columns at the entrance to the Reich Chancellery and the entire lower portion of the building painted with the names of the victims and survivors who, like all the soldiers at all times wanted to confound the enemy, to honor fallen comrades or simply witness: I was here, I survived. (William Vandivert / TIME & LIFE Pictures) | # . |
discuss photo (0) | 12. Soviet soldiers and an unknown civilian moving a huge eagle that hung before the entrance to the Reich Chancellery. Vendayvert: "It was loaded on a car to take away as a trophy." (William Vandivert / TIME & LIFE Pictures) | # . |
discuss photo (0) | 13. Frustrated by a bust of Hitler's Globe, and the wreckage before the Reich Chancellery. This picture could not be better illustrated by the state of Berlin in April-May 1945 on the eve of the Potsdam Conference. Just at this time in the city was becoming more and more popular the song "Berlin Kommt Wieder" (Berlin, will return). And it was considered dangerous not only because of the text, but because of how Berliners sang it. (William Vandivert / TIME & LIFE Pictures) | # . |
discuss photo (0) | 14. William Vendayvert shot for LIFE from late 1930 until 1948. In 1947 he, together with Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson and David Seymour created the agency "Magnum Photos" (where he worked for a year). Vandayvert died in 1992. |
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