Squalid sofa where Hitler and Eva Braun sat as they killed themselves 明らかにする/漏らすd in photos 解放(する)d for the first time

  • Scenes were 逮捕(する)d by photographer William Vandivert in 1945
  • Vandivert was the first western photographer to be 許すd into the (船に)燃料を積み込む/(軍)地下えんぺい壕
  • (船に)燃料を積み込む/(軍)地下えんぺい壕 was beneath the pompous Reich Chancellery which was 減ずるd to brickdust by 連合した 爆弾s and ロシアの 大砲 爆撃するs
  • LIFE magazine published the photos after a trawl through 古記録s

黒人/ボイコット and white images taken by the first Western photographer to enter the squalid (船に)燃料を積み込む/(軍)地下えんぺい壕 where Hitler and his wife Eva Braun killed themselves have been 収集するd in a LIFE.com gallery for the first time.

Many of the photos did not make the final 削減(する) for the special 版 published すぐに after the war in 1945, but have been flagged up now after a trawl through the magazine's 古記録s.

Photographer William Vandivert was the first Western snapper to be 認めるd 接近 into the (船に)燃料を積み込む/(軍)地下えんぺい壕 carved beneath the pompous Reich Chancellery which was 減ずるd to brickdust by 連合した 爆弾s and ロシアの 大砲 爆撃するs.?

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Traces of the dictator: War correspondents examining the arm of sofa stained with blood which might have been Eva Braun's, while one of them uses a candle to search the floor for evidence of suicide in Adolf Hitler's underground shelter

Traces of the 独裁者: War 特派員s 診察するing the arm of sofa stained with 血 while one of them uses a candle to search the 床に打ち倒す for 証拠 of 自殺 in Adolf Hitler's 地下組織の 避難所

HQ: Adolf Hitler's command center conference room partially burned out by SS troops and stripped of evidence by invading Russians, in bunker under the Reichschanc
ellery after Hitler's suicide

HQ: Adolf Hitler's 命令(する) 中心 会議/協議会 room 部分的に/不公平に 燃やすd out by SS 軍隊/機動隊s and stripped of 証拠 by 侵略するing ロシアのs, in (船に)燃料を積み込む/(軍)地下えんぺい壕 under the Reichschancellery after Hitler's 自殺

Office: Burned and scattered papers on desk inside Adolf Hitler's command bunker where he and his mistress Eva Braun were said to have committed suicide

Office: 燃やすd and scattered papers on desk inside Adolf Hitler's 命令(する) (船に)燃料を積み込む/(軍)地下えんぺい壕 where he and his mistress Eva Braun were said to have committed 自殺

Secret lovers: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun kept their affair hidden for many years. but new images collat
ed by Life magazine shed fresh light on their final moments

Secret lovers: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun kept their 事件/事情/状勢 hidden for many years. but new images collated by Life magazine shed fresh light on their final moments

Hitler's Reich, which once stretched from Calais to the shores of the Volga in Russia, and from the 北極の Circle to North Africa, was 減ずるd to a few spartan rooms in a stinking 固く結び付ける 潜水艦 where he and his wife killed themselves on April 30 1945.

'These pix were made in the dark with only a candle for 照明 ... our small party of four (警官の)巡回区域,受持ち区域 all 残り/休憩(する) of 暴徒 who (機の)カム 負かす/撃墜する about forty minutes after we got there,' said Vandivert whose evocative photographs have lost 非,不,無 of their 力/強力にする to shock and awe.

One of the pictures shows war 特派員s 診察するing the sofa upon which the couple ended their days, and the spreading dark stain of the monster's 血 upon the fabric after he 発射 himself in the mouth with his service ピストル. Left over: A mould-covered Nazi SS officers cap with a  Death Skull insignia on the bunker's floor


残余s: A mould-covered SS officer's cap, with the 悪名高い death's-長,率いる skull emblem barely 明白な - this photo was not 初めは published in LIFE

On guard: Russian soldier standing amid rubble in Adolf Hitler's command bunker

発見: A ロシアの 兵士 standing まっただ中に the がれき. They fought their way to the heart of Nazism, in a crusade of 復讐 for the 27 million deaths Hitler's 軍隊s 原因(となる)d in their 母国

Abandoned furniture and debris: Vandivert was the first Western photographer to gain access to Hitler?s F?hrerbunker after the fall of Berlin

Abandoned furniture and 破片: Photographer William Vandivert was the first Western photographer to 伸び(る) 接近 to Hitler's F?hrerbunker after the 落ちる of Berlin

Another is a 遺物 of war, a rare 16th century 絵 略奪するd from Italy to adorn a 塀で囲む of the (船に)燃料を積み込む/(軍)地下えんぺい壕's 熟考する/考慮する where self-任命するd 'artist' Hitler 問題/発行するd his final 命令(する)s to 非,不,無-existent armies in the dying days of his 支配する.

On the 床に打ち倒す of one room a 不正に scarred S.S. officer's cap with it's grinning death's 長,率いる skull is caught in Vandivert's レンズ while yet another 以前 unpublished picture shows LIFE 特派員 Percy Knauth 精査するing through 破片 in the shallow ざん壕 in the garden of the Reich Chancellery where the 団体/死体s of Hitler and his wife - he married her hours before their 自殺 協定/条約 - were 浴びせる/消すd with 石油 and 始める,決める 燃えて.

Source: Empty jerrycans of gasoline reportedly used by SS Troops to burn bodies of Adolph Hitler & Eva Braun after their suicides in his command bunker

Source: Empty jerrycans of ガソリン 報道によれば used by SS 軍隊/機動隊s to 燃やす 団体/死体s of Adolph Hitler & Eva Braun after their 自殺s in his 命令(する) (船に)燃料を積み込む/(軍)地下えんぺい壕

Examination: LIFE correspondent Percy Knauth sifting through the dirt & debris in the shallow shell hole where the bodies of Hitler and Eva Braun were thought to have been burned after their suicides, in the garden of the Reichstag

Examination: LIFE 特派員 Percy Knauth 精査するing through the dirt & 破片 in the shallow 爆撃する 穴を開ける where the 団体/死体s of Hitler and Eva Braun were thought to have been 燃やすd after their 自殺s, in the garden of the Reichstag. This photo was not 初めは published in LIFE?

Burned wreckage inside Adolf Hitler's command bunker
Unident hand touching destroyed hinge of door to Adolf Hitler's command bunker, burned off by advancing Russian combat engineers.

Burnt out: 難破, left,? inside Adolf Hitler's 命令(する) (船に)燃料を積み込む/(軍)地下えんぺい壕 and 権利,? 手渡す touching destroyed hinge of door to Adolf Hitler's 命令(する) (船に)燃料を積み込む/(軍)地下えんぺい壕, 燃やすd off by 前進するing ロシアの 戦闘 engineers. These photos were not 初めは published in LIFE magazine

After the Fall: In the garden of the Reich Chancellery, Berlin, 1945

After the 落ちる: In the garden of the Reich Chancellery, Berlin, 1945. This photo was not 初めは published in LIFE

Symbolic: A crushed globe
 and a bust of Hitler amid rubble outside the ruined Reich Chancellery

象徴的な: A 鎮圧するd globe and a 破産した/(警察が)手入れする of Hitler まっただ中に がれき outside the 廃虚d Reich Chancellery. This photo was not 初めは published in LIFE

Other never-before-seen images are those of the ventilation tower of the (船に)燃料を積み込む/(軍)地下えんぺい壕, pockmarked with shrapnel from 爆弾s and 爆撃するs, a desk used by Hitler strewn with papers and the 入り口 to the troglodyte 過密な住居.

?VIDEO? 古記録 foortage shows British 軍隊/機動隊s in Berlin at Hitler's (船に)燃料を積み込む/(軍)地下えんぺい壕?

A 特に poignant 発射 are the empty jerry cans of 石油 used for the Fuehrer's funeral pyre, lying abandoned in the がれき of the Chancellery garden.

ロシアの 兵士s who fought their way street by street and building by building to the heart of Nazism, in a crusade of 復讐 for the 27 million deaths Hitler's 軍隊s 原因(となる)d in their 母国, are seen in a photo taken on the same day moving a 抱擁する bronze swastika that once ぼんやり現れるd over the 入ること/参加(者) to Hitler's Chancellery on to a pile of がれき.

Defiant: At the Reichstag, evidence of a practice common throughout the centuries: soldiers scrawling graffiti to honor fallen comrades, insult the vanquished or simply announce, I was here. I survived'

反抗的な: At the Reichstag, 証拠 of a practice ありふれた throughout the centuries: 兵士s scrawling graffiti to 栄誉(を受ける) fallen comrades, 侮辱 the vanquished or 簡単に 発表する, I was here. I 生き残るd.' This photo was not 初めは published in LIFE

Heavy work: Russian soldiers and a civilian struggle to move a large bronze Nazi Party eagle that once loomed over a doorway of the Reich Chancellery, Berlin, 1945

激しい work: ロシアの 兵士s and a 非軍事の struggle to move a large bronze Nazi Party eagle that once ぼんやり現れるd over a doorway of the Reich Chancellery, Berlin, 1945. This photo was not 初めは published in LIFE

It's pver: A U.S. soldier, PFC Douglas Page, offers a mocking Nazi salute inside the bombed-out ruins of the Berliner Sportspalast where the Third Reich often held political rallies

It's over: A U.S. 兵士, PFC Douglas Page, 申し込む/申し出s a mocking Nazi salute inside the 爆弾d-out 廃虚s of the Berliner Sportspalast where the Third Reich often held political 決起大会/結集させるs. This photo was not 初めは published in LIFE

Bitter: A man on bicycle and young boy going past smashed vehicles and abandoned artillery which fill Oberwallstrasse street, where some of the most bitter fighting for control of Berlin took place

Bitter: A man on bicycle and young boy going past 粉砕するd 乗り物s and abandoned 大砲 which fill Oberwallstrasse street, where some of the most bitter fighting for 支配(する)/統制する of Berlin took place

Other hitherto unpublished photos 含む a 発射 of an American 軍人/修理人 giving the Hitler salute in the 爆弾d out Sportspalast stadium in Berlin, from where in 1943 宣伝 大臣 Joseph Goebbels made his 悪名高い 'total war' speech, and inside the Reichstag, where ロシアの 兵士s carved their 指名するs and graffiti on the 塀で囲むs of the 議会 building.

A 鎮圧するd globe of the sort Hitler used to gaze at and dream of world conquest, together with a 破産した/(警察が)手入れする of him made of bronze, are also 再生するd for the first time.

At the time Vandivert, who died in 1992, 報告(する)/憶測d for LIFE; 'Almost every famous building in Berlin is a shambles. In the centre of town GIs could walk for 封鎖するs and see no living thing, hear nothing but the stillness of death, smell nothing but the stench of death.'

Death pact:Adolf Hitler with mistress Eva Braun - the pair died together in the bunker

Death 協定/条約: Adolf Hitler with mistress Eva Braun - the pair died together in the (船に)燃料を積み込む/(軍)地下えんぺい壕

Downfall: The film of Hitler's life imagined how the dictator would have looked on the sofa where he finally killed himself, sat next to Eva braun

Downfall: The film of Hitler's life imagined how the 独裁者 would have looked on the sofa where he finally killed himself, sat next to Eva braun

Vandivert was the first Western photographer to 伸び(る) 接近 to Hitler’s F?hrerbunker after the 落ちる of Berlin, and a handful of his pictures of the (船に)燃料を積み込む/(軍)地下えんぺい壕 and the 廃虚d city were published in LIFE magazine in July 1945.

On the LIFE website today WEDS it 明言する/公表するs; 'A few of those images are republished here; most of the pictures in this gallery, however, never appeared in LIFE. Taken together, they illuminate the surreal, 乱すing universe Vandivert 遭遇(する)d in the (船に)燃料を積み込む/(軍)地下えんぺい壕 itself, and in the streets of the vanquished city beyond the (船に)燃料を積み込む/(軍)地下えんぺい壕’s 塀で囲むs.'

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