Daily Mail UK
Never-before-seen documents from Adolf Hitler’s final days in his underground bunker have come to light more than 70 years later after being kept as a souvenir by a French soldier.
Historians Xavier Aiolfi and Paul Villatoux have combed through dozens of papers sent from the bunker in Berlinas Soviet forces encircled the German capital in the run up to Hitler’s suicide in April 1945.
The fascinating letters, telegrams, and personal effects include the Nazi dictator’s last futile military order – which commanded his forces across Europe to rescue Berlin, despite most of them having been cut off or wiped out – as well as an announcement of his decision to kill himself.