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The last birthday of Adolf Hitler

This video is about Hitler's last birthday. Regretfully, owing to a fake copyright claim, I have had to edit it. The 20 April 1945 was Hitler’s last birthday, on that day he was 56 although he gave the impression of someone much older. It is also the day the film Downfall commences and as such most of you will be familiar with the events of that day. Whereas I cannot compete with such a brilliant film, I can add to some of the details shown in that production. Hitler slept at very unconventional times and his rhythm of life was forced onto those around him with conferences taking place at night. His conferences got later and later and Albert Speer noted in his memoirs that the joke was that if they got any later then they would be at a time suitable for any early riser. The events of the 19 April 1945 did not bode well. In the late afternoon of that day, two Soviet columns had broken through the German lines at Müncheberg, due east of Berlin, and at Wriezen, to the north. There was nothing to stop them. The German commanding officer, Gerneral Heinrici admitted that the battle was about to be decided. Hitler had by this time been living in the Bunker for some time. The unpleasant atmosphere and feeling of doom made Hitler’s secretary Martin Bormann record that it was ‘not exactly a birthday situation.’ The minds of those that had known Hilter for some time must have gone back only six years when Hitler celebrated his fiftieth birthday as a relatively young man for his age and with great pomp and circumstance in Berlin. That day, the 20 April 1939, may have been the best day in his life. It was a national holiday, huge crowds turned out to meet him in Berlin although Hitler did have to stand with his arm outstretched in the Nazi salute for six hours as the parade passed him by. One imagines that his thoughts turned to that day only six years previously to the mess he now found himself in and which he alone had caused, although naturally he blamed others. At 50, Hitler had been young for his age, by the time he was 56, it was as though he was twenty years older. As far as Hitler was concerned, as he went to bed more or less at dawn, birthday greetings could be expected at midnight. He had asked his staff to refrain from ceremony, but a number of people gathered and as they were there, Eva Braun persuaded him to greet the staff. Karl Saur, Chief of Staff to Armaments Minister Albert Speer, brought a present of a scale model of a mortar. Hitler, seemingly realising without admitting that Berlin was lost, discussed with Josef Goebbels and Robert Ley about his determination to defend the Alpine Redoubt and Bohemia-Moravia in the south, and Norway in the north. What is important about this discussion is that it shows that Hitler was still unsure about what he was going to do. After the formal part of the meeting, he went back to his rooms where he had some tea with Eva Braun before retiring to bed. Around mid day, his valet Linge woke him and let him know that General Burgdorf was there to say that the Red Army had broken through at Spremberg. Hitler, does not appear to have been too bothered as he told Linge that he wanted to sleep another hour as he had not slept all night. On 20 April 1945, there was constant bombing by the USAAF and RAF. In the film Downfall we see Hitler furious about the Soviet artillery attacks although perhaps in reality Hitler was a bit more subdued. His personal doctor Theordor Morell gave him a glucose injection whilst Hitler played with one of the puppies of his dog Blondi. He ate lunch with Eva Braun and his secretaries, Johanna Wolf and Christa Schroeder. After lunch they all went to see an architectural model of Linz and he showed them the location of the apartment where he had lived with his mother. This is the location of the New Chancellery in Berlin. Until the fall of the Berlin Wall, most of it was in the death zone along the East German border. This was one of the presents Hitler bequeathed to the German people. The New Chancellery had been completed only in 1939 and this is what it looked like then. As you can see, nothing is left of it today. Hitler had followed very closely its construction and as he fancied himself as an architect, he had given orders as to specifics. On 20 April 1945, he went into the Chancellery for the very last time with his adjutant Julius Schaub. These two photographs are possibly the last two ever taken of him. Later he went to the garden where he greeted and decorated a line of Hitler Youth. Hitler apologised for not being able to speak very loudly, but he did promise victory. Some time around 16:00 he went back into the Bunker, never to step outside again in his life. The main war conference was to be held in the early evening.   / historysite   Please consider supporting me on Patreon.   / alanheath