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Well, this is the last recording
of Hitler on film.
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He's come out of the bunker,
into the Chancellery garden,
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and is congratulating members
of the Hitler Youth, some
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of whom seem very young indeed,
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ten or 11, on their fighting
prowess.
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His left arm, which he keeps
behind his back,
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is shaking uncontrollably.
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It's a pathetic scene.
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This is what the Third Reich
has been reduced to - a bunch of 20
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kids who should not be there,
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and who were sacrificing
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themselves quite needlessly.
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But here's Hitler congratulating
them,
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because the adults
are beginning to betray him.
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These are the people on whom
he now relies.
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Children.
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This is the story of the collapse
of the Third Reich.
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As the allied troops close
in on Germany.
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Our interest is the psychology
of that collapse,
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as those at the heart of the regime
cling to power.
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It's the worst in human nature
you see during the collapse
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of the Third Reich.
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To help us tell the story,
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we've asked historians and experts
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to take us inside the minds of each
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one of the key protagonists,
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as they are forced
to confront failure.
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The cycle of thinking, at that time,
wouldn't allow anyone to think
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that what's happening is wrong.
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Being picked up, shot,
disappeared...
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They are walking into an apocalypse
on purpose.
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Ultimately, who will stay
loyal to Hitler?
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And who will betray him?
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And when?
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By early April 1945, Adolf
Hitler's Nazi regime
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is on the brink of collapse.
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In the West, American troops
have crossed the Rhine.
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The British are closing
in from the North.
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The French, from the south.
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From the east, a vast Soviet army
has paused to regroup,
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just 40 miles from Berlin.
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Allied aircraft now control
the skies over Germany...
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..launching devastating air
raids almost at will.
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Factories, airfields and railways
lie in ruins.
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With Berlin under daily bombardment,
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Hitler is in permanent refuge
in his heavily-fortified bunker...
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..a series of 30 cramped rooms
covering 3,000 square metres.
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It includes living quarters,
a canteen, dog kennels
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and a telephone exchange.
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From the subterranean
conference room,
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Hitler attempts to co-ordinate
Germany's military operations.
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The bombing is absolutely
devastating.
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Berlin is almost completely
destroyed.
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But Hitler didn't really know
the details
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of what was going
on above ground.
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And part of the reason for that is
because the people around him
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are afraid to tell him.
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They know that people who give
Hitler bad news are likely
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to be shouted out, dismissed,
or declared to be cowards.
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They might even be shot.
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As Hitler's world becomes
increasingly bizarre,
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he and his propaganda minister,
Joseph Goebbels, look for signs
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that fate will somehow intervene.
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They study astrological charts,
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and Goebbels reads Hitler stories
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of incredible comebacks
from German folklore.
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Goebbels and Hitler are fixated
with being men of history.
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Men of destiny.
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And Goebbels writes in his diary
that,
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"It is necessary to model ourselves
on the heroes of the German past."
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Hitler is particularly attached to
the figure of Frederick the Great.
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Because Frederick, like Hitler,
had to fight against Russia and,
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for quite a while, it looked
like he was going to lose.
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And he was saved by Providence.
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Frederick's great rival,
Empress Elisabeth of Russia, died
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just in time to give Prussia
a chance to win.
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Goebbels fed Hitler's hope
that for Nazi Germany, Providence
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might provide like it did
for Frederick the Great.
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In some ways, Goebbels is now doing
propaganda not only to German
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people, but also to the Fuhrer,
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shoring up the Fuhrer's psychology.
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With the Soviets so close to Berlin,
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and the Fuhrer losing his grip
on reality,
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Hitler's inner circle
must consider their next moves.
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Joseph Goebbels has placed himself
firmly at the Fuhrer's side
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in this hour of need.
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But other senior Nazis take
different approaches.
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Albert Speer is still playing
a dangerous double game.
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On the surface loyal, while secretly
undermining Hitler's orders,
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in the hope of currying favour
with the Allies,
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when the war is over.
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Hermann Goring, Hitler's designated
successor, has been disgraced
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and has retreated to his country
estate.
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Stripped of any real authority,
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Goring has found his own
way of coping.
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Goring is something of a fantasist,
living in a fairy tale world.
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He has a large toy train set, set
up in the attic, where he even
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has a little model bomber
that comes on, and drops bombs
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on the trains below.
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Just like a child playing.
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But on the other hand, I think
Goring is actually a much
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more realistic figure than
many of those around Hitler.
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He does recognise that the war
is over.
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In the real world, things are not
going to work out
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the way he would like.
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Heinrich Himmler has had a
breakdown,
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after being reprimanded by Hitler
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for failing to hold
the eastern front.
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He has checked himself into
a sanatorium outside Berlin
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to focus on his health.
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Himmler is physically shattered.
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For him, the dressing down is
like a kick in the teeth.
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He feels extremely fragile
because he knows that his position
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as Reich leader of the SAS,
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as Hitler's most loyal paladin,
is at stake.
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Who is Himmler without Hitler?
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A nobody.
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Himmler can't break with Hitler,
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because breaking with Hitler
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would break Himmler as a person.
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Meanwhile, Hitler continues to live
as a recluse in the bunker.
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Hitler had never had an orderly
kind of nine-to-five day.
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But increasingly, his routine
becomes
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quite cut off from the real world.
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He gets up later and later, goes
to bed later and later, living
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perpetually in artificial light.
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So day and night are almost
reversed in the bunker.
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It's a kind of upside down routine
that he has.
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The once-charismatic Fuhrer now
avoids public engagements.
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He no longer makes speeches
on the radio or in person.
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So it falls to Goebbels, his most
trusted deputy,
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to be the face of the regime.
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Goebbels travels in Germany.
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He tries to encourage troops.
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He gives speeches to cheer them up.
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In many ways, Goebbels is
having to nurse both Nazi Germany
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and the leader of Nazi Germany.
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These are desperate times
and Goebbels knows that.
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And so he must have seen this dire
state of German troops,
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the unpreparedness, and how unlikely
it was that these troops
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could defeat the Soviets.
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This is very difficult for Goebbels,
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as reality hits him that the war
cannot be won.
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Goebbels doesn't confront Hitler
with the reality of the war,
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to preserve Hitler's psyche.
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At this point, Goebbels
is essentially waiting for a miracle
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to save Nazi Germany.
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For destiny.
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For Providence to provide salvation.
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To the whole free world,
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the stunning news has come
that Franklin Roosevelt is dead.
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Death in the hour of victory,
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like President Lincoln before him.
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Goebbels is returning to Berlin
from the front line
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when the news arrives.
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As he hears the news of Roosevelt's
death, he immediately feels,
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"This is the chance
we've been waiting for.
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"This is the miracle
that will save us."
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Goebbels can call Hitler
with great news.
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For once, Goebbels has the chance
to cheer up Hitler, in a period
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of total catastrophe.
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Hitler's absolutely overjoyed.
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He goes down the corridor
in the bunker telling everybody.
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"Everything will now change.
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"This is going to be the great
turning point."
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He will be able to divide
the Allies.
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The Americans surely will lose
interest in continuing with the war.
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Just like their hero, Frederick
the Great
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had been saved by the death of the
Empress of Russia,
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they thought that maybe
this was the parallel.
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This was history providing
for Goebbels and Hitler.
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Who are now locked in a cycle
together where the two of them need
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each other to continue to believe
that the final victory
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is still possible.
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Just four days after President
Roosevelt's death, the Red Army
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launch a huge offensive.
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This shatters the illusions
that Hitler was entertaining
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about somehow the Allies being
divided, the Americans giving up,
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the Soviets losing the support
of the West.
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The Russians begin to encircle
Berlin.
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Despite Germany's hopeless position,
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Hitler issues an order to fight
to the last.
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"Anyone trying
to save their miserable skins,"
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he says, "..is a traitor
and will be arrested and executed."
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Right up until the end,
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Hitler is issuing orders
that everyone is to keep fighting.
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They should sacrifice themselves.
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They should allow themselves
to be shot.
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They should place themselves
in the way of the guns.
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For Hitler, it's all or nothing.
It's victory or death.
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News of the Soviet offensive soon
reaches Hitler's inner circle.
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Himmler is in a sanatorium
as the world is falling apart.
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And he is thinking
about how the Third Reich
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is about to lose the war.
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He's increasingly unsure
about what to do next.
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Himmler still knows that his entire
position exists,
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his entire livelihood exists
because Hitler trusts him.
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Himmler never says anything
in public against Hitler.
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But for the first time in his life,
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Himmler is a divided man.
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Now that the chips are down,
he's thinking very carefully
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about his top priority,
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about how to come out of the war,
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how to save his own neck,
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how to position himself in a
scenario
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where Hitler is perhaps no
longer the undisputed leader
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of the Third Reich.
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Stuck in this dilemma,
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an unlikely adviser comes
to the rescue.
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A physiotherapist trained
in ancient Tibetan medicine.
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Himmler is spending a lot
of time with Felix Kersten,
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who is Himmler's personal masseur.
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Himmler is suffering from severe
stomach cramps.
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His pain increases as the Allies
are closing in on Germany.
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And he is using his masseur
as a sounding board.
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He starts exploring with Kersten
potential scenarios
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for how to reach out to the Western
Allies to try to negotiate
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a post-Hitler Germany.
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Himmler lets Kersten travel
to neutral Sweden on his behalf,
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to find an intermediary
who can sound out the Allied
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leaders in secret.
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It seems simply unimaginable,
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absurd that the head of an
organisation
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that declares, "Our honour
is our loyalty to Hitler,"
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that was the SS mantra.
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That this man,
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the supposedly most loyal henchman
of Hitler starts relaxing.
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Acting behind Hitler's back.
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Hitler occasionally leaves
the bunker to take walks
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with his girlfriend, Eva Braun,
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in the Chancellery Gardens.
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She has moved into the bunker
to be with him.
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Eva Braun presents him with the
comfort that he wants.
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She provides affirmation to him.
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She supports his delusions.
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And this mustn't be underestimated,
the importance
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of that stabilising domestic force.
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She is his cup of tea. His packet of
crisps, at the end of a hard day.
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Eva Braun first met Adolf
Hitler over 15 years ago
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when she was just 17.
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An aspiring model and actress...
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..she was working as an assistant
for Hitler's official photographer.
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She is a young woman who likes
athletics, who likes
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going to the movies,
who like skiing.
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It's hard to imagine what this young
woman
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who daydreams about film stars,
sees in this man.
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But what it is, is.. ..is power.
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But most of the German people
don't know Hitler has a girlfriend.
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Hitler wants to conceal
his relationship.
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Because he feels that he has great
authority as the unmarried leader
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of his nation.
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In a sense, he's married
to Nazi Germany.
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This is very isolating for her.
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And the more she's concealed,
the more desperate she is that one
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day all will be revealed,
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and she'll be shown
to be this incredibly loyal,
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humble and hugely important support
to the Fuhrer.
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Germany is losing the war, but it
doesn't cross Eva Braun's mind
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to desert Hitler.
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Her great mission in life
is to become the First Lady
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of the Third Reich.
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Realising that Germany can no
longer win the war,
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Himmler's masseur
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Felix Kersten, begins to explore
the possibility of negotiating
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with the Allies.
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Kersten suggests Himmler,
the architect of the Holocaust,
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could offer to release imprisoned
Jews as a gesture
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of his humanitarianism and goodwill.
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Kersten speaks to the World
Jewish Congress who suggests
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a Jewish intermediary.
Norbert Masur.
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So Masur faces a moral dilemma.
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Should he negotiate with Himmler
to save Jewish prisoners?
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In the moment Norbert Masur
gets that call,
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it's an immediate response
that he's ready to do it.
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There's no hesitation whatsoever.
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This lack of fear or anxiety
in that moment is almost surprising.
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But for him, it just seems such
a clear, unquestionable thing to do.
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It's a tremendous act of courage.
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Just hours later, Norbert Masur
boards a plane from Stockholm
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to Berlin, for one of the most
extraordinary meetings
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of the Second World War.
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Masur, a German-born Jew,
left his homeland before the Nazis
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came to power in the 1930s.
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He hasn't been back for a decade.
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Masur really sees a country
on the run.
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He sees a scared population
that's defeated.
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He's really observing now first-hand
the end of this war,
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seeing a very different Germany,
a defeated regime.
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Masur is driven by the Gestapo
to Felix Kersten's country estate,
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not far from the infamous
Ravensbruck concentration camp.
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In the time Masur has been away,
six million Jewish people
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have been murdered by the Nazis
and their collaborators,
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including members of his own family.
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The Allies have liberated several
concentration camps, and the scale
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of the genocide is now becoming
known to a horrified, wider world.
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Masur was under no illusions
about what this regime had done.
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He's clearly aware of the fact
that this could be his last mission.
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The idea that you're going to find
yourself, in a few hours,
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face-to-face with the person
singularly responsible for this kind
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of death and destruction...
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..it's really very dangerous.
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Something could also go
terribly wrong.
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That same evening, while Masur
waits patiently for Himmler,
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Joseph Goebbels takes to the
airwaves
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to rally the German people, for one
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last great effort
on the Fuhrer's behalf.
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It's just a few hours before
Hitler's 56th birthday.
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In a rare moment of quiet, Hitler
escapes the bunker to inspect
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the battered remains of the iconic
Reich Chancellery building.
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The last known photographs
of him ever taken.
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By now, Germany is almost cut
in two.
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Only a narrow corridor of land
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divides the British and Americans
from the Soviets.
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And with the Soviets just ten
miles from central Berlin,
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there are just two shrinking
passages in and out of the city.
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Berlin is now on the front line.
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And is openly described
as the Reich's funeral pyre.
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Its population of three million
is suffering, and they've lost
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their faith in their leaders'
empty promises.
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Pride and patriotism have turned
to resentment and desperation.
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They fear for their lives,
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and have little access to food
or fresh water.
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Hitler's inner circle receive
an invitation
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that few of them want
but cannot refuse.
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It's Hitler's birthday.
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On Hitler's birthday,
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Eva Braun is very concerned
that he gets a birthday cake,
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so she ensures that one
is baked for him that morning.
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It seems quite bizarre
that Eva Braun is concerned
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with such small details.
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And yet for her, this makes absolute
sense, because what she wants
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is to maintain appearances
to the end.
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Even in the dying days,
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she is loyal to the ultimate
degree, beside Adolf Hitler.
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This is no day for a birthday party.
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Berlin is being shelled
by the Soviets.
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Bombs are falling on the city.
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It is deeply inappropriate
and deeply weird.
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With some of them already
betraying Hitler,
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his inner circle must now travel
across Germany to the bunker.
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The Soviets are attacking Berlin,
the Allies are bombing the city
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to smithereens, and all of the Nazi
hierarchy, all these big figures,
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travel to pay their tribute
to the Fuhrer on his birthday.
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It becomes, in some ways,
I think, an act of loyalty.
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For discredited Luftwaffe
chief Hermann Goring,
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it's awkward, as he's been so
publicly humiliated. As Hitler's
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nominated successor, he has long
harboured fantasies of taking
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over the Third Reich.
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After months and months
when he's been on the outside,
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it's impossible to take
seriously any longer
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the idea that Goring might become
the Fuhrer if anything happened
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to Hitler, because nobody
seems to obey him.
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They have no respect for him at all.
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They don't regard him as the
legitimate heir of the Fuhrer.
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Himmler has also been invited
in from the cold.
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He knows what's happening
on the outskirts of Berlin.
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Even in the worst moment
in the history of the Third Reich,
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when defeat is imminent...
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..top Nazi leaders are unable
to confront Hitler with the truth.
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They simply do not have the guts,
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because they all owe their positions
of power to Hitler.
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This tells you so much about
the mind-set of the Nazis.
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They're all trying to come
out of the war alive.
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They are, essentially, cowards.
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When they arrive, Hitler
is nowhere to be seen.
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The Fuhrer is refusing to get
out of bed.
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Hitler says he doesn't want
to be congratulated.
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It's all completely meaningless.
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What is there to congratulate
when everything is falling apart?
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It is Eva Braun who is sent
to collect him,
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to stir him
back into life.
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Eva Braun is riding high
at this point.
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She is at the height of her power.
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She is the only one that can, not
just have access to Hitler
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in his bedroom,
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but can also bring him back out to
face the world.
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It shows the consolidation
of her power and she loves this.
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While the inner circle wait
for their Fuhrer, he receives
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his daily pick-me-up.
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By April, Hitler's having 28
different medications per day.
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00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:09,400
Amphetamines to try and bolster
his physical and mental state,
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and keep him going in a situation
which was hugely stressful
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and where he doesn't have a lot
of sleep.
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He can't stand the thought
of meeting his staff, who must also
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surely know that everything is lost.
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He's come right to the end
of his tether.
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The meeting is uneasy,
uncomfortable...
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..and, for the first time, perhaps
for many attendees, there's doubt
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as to Hitler's capability.
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00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:59,960
Goebbels is assessing, particularly,
Goring and Himmler.
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What are they doing?
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Are they loyal? Are they useful?
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00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:07,960
Are they what we need?
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Will they betray the Fuhrer?
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00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:18,920
Himmler is greatly shocked
when he sees Hitler,
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00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:22,200
because Hitler is a wreck.
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Trembling, looks much older than 56.
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00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:31,560
Himmler realises that Hitler
is losing the plot.
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00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:38,080
Little does Hitler know,
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00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:42,240
Faithful Heinrich,
as he affectionately calls him,
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00:37:42,240 --> 00:37:45,120
is already making plans
behind his back.
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00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:52,760
Himmler is feeling stressed out.
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00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:57,960
Where do his loyalties lie now?
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00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:05,000
Himmler certainly doesn't
want to stay in the bunker.
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00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,880
He's trying to get out as soon
as possible, but he feels
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00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:12,320
that he cannot leave before other
Nazi bigwigs leave, because Himmler
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00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:16,920
fears that if he leaves
before others, other Nazi leaders
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00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:18,400
will talk behind his back,
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and say something critical
about him to Hitler.
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00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:26,200
Before Himmler can make his excuses,
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Hitler urges everyone
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into his Situation Room,
to discuss their next moves.
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Hitler has always dominated strategy
meetings,
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00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:41,160
but now he looks
to them for answers.
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00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:49,800
Himmler and others suggest
that Hitler should go southwards
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to lead Germany from there.
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00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:57,880
Hitler has none of it.
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00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:04,800
This is a turning point.
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00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:10,880
Himmler thinks this is the moment
where everything changes.
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00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:23,400
Hitler is written
off as Germany's leader.
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00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:33,160
When they've had their conference,
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most of them make their excuses
and leave rather hurriedly.
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When Himmler leaves the bunker...
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..he probably knows that this is
the last time he is meeting Hitler.
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His mentor.
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His staunchest supporter.
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00:39:57,640 --> 00:39:59,000
His idol.
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He is somewhat nostalgic,
but he also knows that now
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is the time to make alternative
plans
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for his, Himmler's, own future.
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00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:22,720
Himmler escapes the party
and immediately heads north.
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00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:29,840
The head of the SS has arranged
another meeting that night.
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00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:38,200
Just after the party, Himmler drives
through the night to the estate
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of Felix Kersten, his masseur,
to meet with Norbert Masur.
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00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:50,760
During the course of the evening,
Mazer received a telephone call
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00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:55,080
that Himmler would not come
until around 2:30am in the morning.
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He's sitting in that place waiting
for Himmler,
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agitated at the thought that, in
a few minutes,
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he would be face-to-face with one
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of the worst murderers of
the Jewish people.
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00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:26,240
It is an extremely tense,
eerie atmosphere.
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00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:34,800
There isn't a single word of apology
by Himmler towards Masur.
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00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:40,960
There isn't a single word of regret.
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00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:44,640
What is going on here?
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00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:52,920
Masur is really sitting there and
not allowing himself
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00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:57,040
to burden himself with the horrors
of the entire Holocaust,
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00:41:57,040 --> 00:41:58,680
not allowing his pulse
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00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:01,000
to start to pace at a faster rate,
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00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,440
to maintain his calm throughout.
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00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:13,600
Masur is forced to listen
to Himmler's lies.
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00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:24,840
And Himmler totally downplays
the severity of the Holocaust.
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00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:28,960
For Himmler, it has been a moral
duty to murder the Jews.
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00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:41,080
For Himmler, these Jewish prisoners
are not really human beings.
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They are simply bargaining chips.
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00:42:51,240 --> 00:42:54,920
This is the moment where Masur
really wants to reach
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00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:58,960
across the table and grab
his counterpart by the throat.
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00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:04,840
He really worries that his resolve
to stay calm
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00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:06,880
and collected, might crumble.
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00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:19,920
So what Masur does is negotiate
the release of as many inmates
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00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:22,760
of these concentration camps
as he can.
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00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:34,320
In the end, Himmler concedes
that 1,000 Jews will be released
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00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:38,400
from the Ravensbruck concentration
camp, to the Red Cross.
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00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:46,840
For him, it perversely is an act
of generosity, an act of goodwill.
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00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:50,680
Himmler, mass murderer,
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00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:55,880
he thinks that by releasing some
Jewish prisoners, he may well clean
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00:43:55,880 --> 00:44:00,000
up his reputation, that the Western
Allies will actually start
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00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:01,240
listening to him.
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00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:16,760
Meanwhile, in Berlin, Hitler
has long gone to bed.
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00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:24,840
His girlfriend, Eva Braun,
takes the party upstairs
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00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:28,640
to her old apartment in the Reich
Chancellery building.
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00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:41,040
Hitler's birthday party provides a
huge opportunity for release.
472
00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:47,040
The pressure in the bunker,
the smell, the atmosphere,
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00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:52,560
the knowledge of almost certain
death is incredibly oppressive.
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00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:57,360
They absolutely know
they're going to be defeated.
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00:44:57,360 --> 00:44:59,280
They haven't got hope.
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00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:01,600
What they have got is champagne.
477
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:08,400
Eva leads a gang of revellers
for one last dance.
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00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:18,720
They've only got one record
which they play over and over again.
479
00:45:18,720 --> 00:45:21,400
And it's quite a manic scene,
really.
480
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:36,240
Eva is determined to be at
the centre, at the heart of things.
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00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:42,600
One thing that she can affect now
is the mood and the atmosphere,
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00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:44,760
the environment of the people
she's with.
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00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:47,040
And she's always loved a party.
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00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:58,760
But the party atmosphere is soon
interrupted by the sound
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00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:03,120
of artillery shells landing
all around the Reich Chancellery.
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00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:28,120
Hitler decides on this desperate
moment,
487
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:30,360
on one last throw of the dice.
488
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:36,880
To launch a huge assault
on the besieging Red Army.
489
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:47,560
He makes it clear that anybody
who disobeys his orders
490
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:50,680
for this final assault is
going to be shot.
491
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:57,520
And he sits back and waits
for the reports of the victory.
492
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:03,520
Hitler has very few believers
left by now.
493
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:10,320
Everyone in the bunker knows
that Nazi Germany has been defeated,
494
00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:11,480
that they have lost.
495
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:15,000
But Hitler is determined to fight
on until the bitter end.
496
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:19,560
And the human cost of this is tens
of thousands of lives.
497
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:26,120
But Eva Braun is one of the key
enablers keeping him going.
498
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:30,000
To prepare for the arrival
of the Red Army,
499
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:34,560
Eva Braun practises her shooting
in the Chancellery Gardens.
500
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:38,600
She is resolute and determined,
and she is absolutely confident
501
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:40,840
that she can play the role
to the end.
502
00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:45,880
She has agency and she makes active
choices to support the regime,
503
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:50,200
and to support the leader
of that murderous criminal regime.
504
00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:56,040
She absolutely is culpable.
505
00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:57,080
She is a Nazi.
506
00:48:21,720 --> 00:48:26,400
Hitler is expecting to hear
of stunning victories around Berlin.
507
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:32,240
And is told that the attack
never took place.
508
00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:37,520
The troops weren't there.
509
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:40,120
The whole plan was simply a fantasy.
510
00:48:47,720 --> 00:48:50,040
He breaks down completely.
511
00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:59,720
And has a half an hour rant,
screaming and shouting at them.
512
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:06,440
By the end, Hitler was commanding
troops that didn't actually exist.
513
00:49:11,800 --> 00:49:15,360
But he sees it in terms of lack
of bravery,
514
00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:18,240
lack of commitment,
lack of will.
515
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:25,440
Hitler believes that everyone
has betrayed him.
516
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:36,640
There will be a complete defeat,
and Germany will go down with him.
517
00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:48,320
He's going to kill himself.
518
00:49:51,720 --> 00:49:54,360
He's going to end it all.
519
00:50:03,320 --> 00:50:06,520
Hitler's staff are appalled by
this outburst.
520
00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:10,440
The only thing they can think
of doing is telephoning Goebbels
521
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:14,880
and asking him to come along
straight away to calm Hitler down.
522
00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:25,520
He goes into Hitler's bedroom,
finds him exhausted, dishevelled.
523
00:50:29,560 --> 00:50:31,520
The very picture of defeat.
524
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:36,320
In many ways, this is a moment
of liberation for Goebbels,
525
00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:38,840
because Hitler gives up
on the delusion that the war
526
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:40,120
can still be won.
527
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:48,360
Goebbels decides himself to stay
in Berlin in the bunker, and share
528
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:50,320
the Fuhrer's fate with him.
529
00:50:58,080 --> 00:51:02,360
Hitler starts preparing
for the Red Army's arrival,
530
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:05,880
instructing staff to destroy
top secret documents
531
00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:07,480
from his private safe.
532
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:13,440
And in a moment of magnanimity
towards his staff, Hitler grants
533
00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:17,440
permission for them to leave
the Fuhrer bunker to flee
534
00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:18,640
for their lives.
535
00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:23,520
He's now seeing the rats
leaving the sinking ship.
536
00:51:25,720 --> 00:51:29,440
He has this feeling of being left
alone and deserted
537
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:31,200
by his closest comrades.
538
00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:39,200
There's no point in in carrying on.
539
00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:47,920
Hitler's outburst only encourages
those of his disciples
540
00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:50,520
who have decided to save themselves.
541
00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:57,720
When Himmler receives the news
of Hitler's meltdown,
542
00:51:57,720 --> 00:52:00,200
Himmler feels emboldened.
543
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:03,040
He feels a certain sense
of liberation.
544
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:10,880
He knows that Hitler is going to die
within the next few days.
545
00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:15,360
He feels that his decision to enter
into negotiations with the Western
546
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:18,480
Allies is now more urgent
than ever before.
547
00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:24,440
As Himmler thinks about life
without Hitler, he entertains
548
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:28,240
the idea that he could be the next
leader of Germany.
549
00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:35,840
At this moment, you can see
the true colours of Himmler.
550
00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:44,040
As a ruthless, selfish egomaniac
who cares only about himself.
551
00:52:48,680 --> 00:52:52,400
Himmler wants to create
a new role for himself
552
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:54,360
in a post-Hitler Germany.
553
00:52:57,200 --> 00:53:00,200
This, while the war is still raging
on all fronts.
554
00:53:00,200 --> 00:53:03,680
This, while Nazi
terror is still going on.
555
00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:06,080
This, while Hitler is still alive.
556
00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:13,760
Now is the time, Himmler believes,
for himself to step up.
557
00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:27,040
As Himmler makes
plans to save his own skin,
558
00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:29,120
there is news from Stockholm.
559
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:42,400
Following Norbert Masur's
negotiations with Himmler,
560
00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:46,640
1,000 prisoners from the Ravensbruck
concentration camp
561
00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:48,160
have been released.
562
00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:12,080
There is a Jewish principle
in Hebrew called Pidyon Shvuyim.
563
00:54:12,080 --> 00:54:16,400
It means the redemption
of prisoners, which is that the act
564
00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:20,280
of saving a soul is the act
of saving humanity.
565
00:54:33,040 --> 00:54:39,640
There are not just 1,000 plus
people who are alive thanks to him.
566
00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:45,920
But they're the descendants,
567
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:48,240
and their descendants' descendants,
568
00:54:48,240 --> 00:54:50,040
who are alive, thanks to him.
569
00:54:57,400 --> 00:55:02,080
The heroes of wars are very often
people such as Norbert Masur, people
570
00:55:02,080 --> 00:55:04,720
who rise to the moment and rise
to the occasion and do
571
00:55:04,720 --> 00:55:05,880
the right thing.
572
00:55:39,760 --> 00:55:41,960
This is the BBC Home Service.
573
00:55:41,960 --> 00:55:43,520
Here is the news.
574
00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:47,600
Berlin is tonight completely
surrounded by Russian armies.
575
00:55:47,600 --> 00:55:49,200
That is the good news.
576
00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:52,680
There are signs that the Germans
are on the run.
577
00:55:56,720 --> 00:55:59,600
And the Germans say Hitler
is still inside the city.
578
00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:16,760
With Berlin completely encircled
by the Allies, the Fuhrer remains
579
00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:22,200
over 15 metres underground
in his concrete bunker, accompanied
580
00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:26,960
only by a few secretaries
and die-hard loyalists.
581
00:56:26,960 --> 00:56:30,360
On the 25th of April, Russians
succeed in cutting off
582
00:56:30,360 --> 00:56:32,760
communications to the bunker.
583
00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:37,760
Telephone wires are cut.
584
00:56:41,280 --> 00:56:45,840
All that Hitler has got
left is radio, and even
585
00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:47,160
that is problematic.
586
00:56:47,160 --> 00:56:49,440
They become ever more isolated.
587
00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:59,080
By this time, you can hear
the Russian guns and shells
588
00:56:59,080 --> 00:57:02,040
from inside the bunker,
deep underground.
589
00:57:06,720 --> 00:57:08,720
The Russians are clearly coming.
590
00:57:08,720 --> 00:57:10,520
The Red Army is moving in.
591
00:57:10,520 --> 00:57:15,520
It's only a matter of days,
perhaps even hours, to the end.
592
00:57:21,920 --> 00:57:25,480
There's no more talk of forces
coming with relief from outside.
593
00:57:25,480 --> 00:57:28,160
So it looks as if the Nazis
are preparing to write off
594
00:57:28,160 --> 00:57:31,040
both their Fuhrer
and their capital.
595
00:57:42,560 --> 00:57:46,040
The Red Army is already nearing
the Reich Chancellery,
596
00:57:46,040 --> 00:57:47,160
threatening it.
597
00:57:50,520 --> 00:57:55,200
The Goebbels' decision to take
their children in the bunker seems
598
00:57:55,200 --> 00:57:59,720
crazy, but in their own logic,
it made a lot of sense.
599
00:57:59,720 --> 00:58:01,360
It's an act of courage.
600
00:58:01,360 --> 00:58:03,520
It's probably his last resort.
601
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:09,360
This is a grim event,
but she's facing a grim reality.
602
00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:11,800
The clock is ticking.
603
00:58:11,800 --> 00:58:13,240
Time is running out.
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