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The Reich Chancellery and Führerbunker Complex

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Language
  
English

Originally published
  
2006

Page count
  
214 (hardcover edition)

Country
  
United States of America

Media type
  
Print (Hardcover)

Author
  
Genre
  
History

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Original title
  
The Reich Chancellery and Führerbunker Complex: An Illustrated History of the Seat of the Nazi Regime

Pages
  
214 (hardcover edition)

ISBN
  
978-0-7864-2393-4 (hardcover edition)

Preceded by
  
Hitler Sites: A City-by-City Guidebook (Austria, Germany, France, United States)

Similar
  

The Reich Chancellery and Führerbunker Complex: An Illustrated History of the Seat of the Nazi Regime is a 2006 book by Steven Lehrer, in which Lehrer recounts the history of a group of Berlin buildings, from their construction in the 18th century until their complete destruction during and after World War II.

King Frederick William I of Prussia built the Palais Schulenburg, at Wilhelmstraße 77, for his esteemed Lieutenant General Count Adolph Friedrich von der Schulenburg.

Later the Palais had a more distinguished owner, Prince Anton Radziwill, a Polish-Lithuanian and Prussian nobleman, aristocrat, musician and politician. A guest at the Palais Radziwill was Polish composer and virtuoso pianist Frédéric Chopin.

During the Napoleonic Wars, Marshal Victor, the French Governor in Berlin, occupied the Palais.

In 1875 the feuding Radziwill heirs sold the Palais to the German Reich.

It became the Reichskanzlerpalais, the Chancellery of Otto von Bismarck and subsequent German Chancellors, the last being Adolf Hitler.

Though Hitler lived in the old Chancellery when he was in Berlin, he ordered the building of a larger, grander structure, the New Reich Chancellery, completed January 1939. Hitler’s Reich Chancellery was not only a center of government but, in Winston Churchill’s words, the hub of “a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.”

In April 1945, as the Soviet Army closed in, Hitler and his mistress, Eva Braun, committed suicide together in the Führerbunker which Hitler had built under the Chancellery garden.

References

The Reich Chancellery and Führerbunker Complex Wikipedia


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