Rare and Unpublished Pictures of Hitler's Bunker, Where He Was Burnt, And Other Fighting Scenes He was During The World War

The following pictures were taken by William Vandivert of Time & Life Magazine, the pictures are courtesy of Time magazine. They are very rare and unpublished pictures of events shortly after Hitler committed suicide.


Oberwallstrasse, in central Berlin, saw some of the most vicious fighting between German and Soviet troops in the spring of 1945


A new view of a photograph that appeared, heavily cropped, in LIFE, picturing Hitler's command center in the bunker, partially burned by retreating German troops and stripped of valuables by invading Russians



            
These pix were made in the dark with only candle for illumination ... Our small party of four beat all rest of mob who came down about forty minutes after Time correspondents  got there. Above: A 16th century Madonna and Child stolen from a Milan museum


            
With only candles to light their way, war correspondents examine a couch stained with blood (see dark patch on the arm of the sofa) located inside Hitler's bunker.


            
An SS officer's cap, with the infamous death's-head skull emblem barely visible. Of this image, Vandivert's notes simply state, "[M]oldy SS cap lying in water on floor of sitting room."


           
                      A ruined, empty and likely looted safe inside Hitler's bunker


           
LIFE correspondent Percy Knauth, left, sifts through debris in the shallow trench in the garden of the Reich Chancellery where, Knauth was told, the bodies of Hitler and Eva Braun were burned after their suicides.



Russian soldiers and a civilian struggle to move a large bronze Nazi Party eagle that once loomed over a doorway of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin.