In Hitler's Bunker: A Boy Soldier's Eyewitness Account of the Führer's Last Days

In Hitler's Bunker: A Boy Soldier's Eyewitness Account of the Führer's Last Days by Lehmann, Armin. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781840187700.

During the last 10 days of Hitlers Berlin, 30,000 German teenagers perished defending their beloved Fuhrer in the Allied 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 gladly given his life 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 Commands bunker complex. It was a stroke of fate that brought him into the company of the notorious Nazis of Hitlers hated Reich: Bormann, Himmler and Goebbels and, of course, the Fuhrer himself. When Hitler greeted Armin with a friendly tug on the cheek, the 16-year-old boy knew he had been granted a unique part in history. And as the Fatherland braced itself for a bloody Goetterdaemmerung, a drama of Wagnerisan proportions unfolded before his young eyes. In HITLERS BUNKER is Armins 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 SA officer father who instilled the Nazis hateful creed in his son. It follows Armins odyssey through the ranks of the Hitler Youth, joining when he was only ten and winning two Iron Crosses for his bravery in battle. It shares Armins teenage anguish over the beautiful German nurse who fell in love with him - and went on to betray him. It is the story of Armins gradual realisation of the full horror...