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. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781840188967.

During the last months of Hitlers Berlin, an estimated 30,000 German teenagers perished defending their beloved Fuhrer in the Russian 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 given his life gladly 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 most notorious Nazis of Hitlers hated Reich, including Martin Bormann, Goebbels and, of course, the Fuhrer himself. When Hitler greeted Armin, the 16-year-old boy knew he had been granted a unique part in history. In Hitlers Bunker is Armins eyewitness account of the Nazi apocalypse and reveals 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 SS father who instilled the Nazis hateful creed in his son, then follows Armins odyssey through the ranks of the Hitler Youth, sharing his teenage anguish over his doomed love for a beautiful German nurse. Armins gradual realisation of the full horror of what he had been part of led him to undertake a quest for the truth, which took him in the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi and to a meeting with Albert Schweitzer, the missionary and theologian. Above all, In Hitlers Bunker is the story of how one man, instead of running away from his past, confronted it and found peace at last.