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    However, I don¡¯t know what Hitler was thinking. He insisted that Marshal Keitel sit for a while while the servants brought the meal.  <-> Hitler also brought Marshal Keitel food for the journey, sandwiches and a field ration - half a bottle of brandy and chocolate.  Keitel then went to General Wenck's headquarters, and Field Marshal Jodl went to the new headquarters of the High Command of the German Armed Forces at Kranitz, north of Potsdam.

    The exchange of fire between the US military and the Germans had basically come to a standstill at this time. John smiled and said to Bernard Lin: "Don't you want to catch Hitler? There is probably no hope!"

    Lin Bona curled his lips and boasted: "I have arranged for those Soviet guys to catch it for me!"

    John laughed and said: "Hitler, this old guy, I heard is a psychopath! But when the Soviet devils went to arrest him, he turned into a madman!"

    I laughed and said: "This is impossible! He will definitely commit suicide!"<

    "Suicide?" John nodded, "Maybe he will commit suicide!"

    This guy, Bernard Lin, is always arrogant: "Captain, how do you know?"

    Nonsense, how do I know?  It would be weird if I didn't know, I thought to myself.

    Whether Hitler was mentally sound and to what extent he was insane will never be decided.  Colonel Demechi¨¨re had been with Hitler on the night of Sunday, April 22, and had carefully observed Hitler in many impromptu meetings.  He believed: "His insanity was a sense of self-excellence for the German nation that surpassed other nations." Colonel Demechi¨¨re's words well explained why Hitler felt that the citizens of Berlin should accompany him to commit suicide.

    "Operation Palace", the German evacuation of Berchtesgaden, began to escalate, and a small group of people prepared to leave the next morning.  Hitler's naval adjutant, Admiral von Putkamer, had been ordered to destroy all of Hitler's government documents at the Berghof.  Julius Schaub, Hitler's personal aide-de-camp who was in charge of all Hitler's files in the Reich Chancellery and bunkers, was ordered to destroy all of Hitler's personal correspondence.  Two of Hitler's four secretaries had been sent to southern Germany.  Dr. Masur, who had been trembling with fear, finally got his wish and joined the team. He brought a small German Army suitcase filled with Hitler's private medical records.

    Allied intelligence heard even more exaggerated reports of high-ranking Nazi party officials fleeing Berlin.  The State Department in Washington, D.C., received a warning message from the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi stating that "Nazi Party leaders planned to travel to Japan via Norway."  A Heinkel 177 aircraft will fly them to Norway.  There may already be a "Viking" plane waiting for them there, and then they will take this plane directly to Japan.  There is no doubt that this was wishful thinking on the part of the Spanish Nazis.  These people even prepared to use "U" submarines to transport food to Germany and then transport the Nazi leaders out.  In several hospitals in Switzerland, Germans were admitted to the hospital for treatment in the name of wounded or sick. In fact, these people were important people who needed to be rescued.  However, claims that camouflaged German aircraft continued to transport VIPs to Spain were largely close to the truth.  Laval Lavel, the former prime minister of France's Vichy government, was one of those passengers who flew from Germany to Barcelona on an unmarked Junkers transport plane.

    With the departure of a large number of people, many rooms in the bunker and the Prime Minister's Office were vacant.  Major Freytag von Loringhofen moved into the bunker with General Krebs and found that the room had a good ventilation system.  But in the small conference room, with nearly twenty people inside, the smell was almost unbearable.  Hitler was the only one sitting, the others almost fell asleep while standing.

    Bombing and shelling left cracks in the walls of the bunkers and filled the air with dust.  Since smoking was strictly prohibited in the lower rooms of the bunker, those eager to smoke had to climb to the bunker rooms one level above.  Despite all these inconveniences, the bunker and the basement of the Chancellery were "lavishly stocked" with food and wine.  The generous supply of wine kept many people's heads above water.

    In the bunker, Colonel Demechi¨¨re noticed that there was an atmosphere of collapse.  You can see people getting drunk.  Some people look depressed, and people at all levels act a little manic.  Discipline no longer exists.  At this time, Mrs. Goebbels came in with her six children, and the debauchery inside formed a shocking contrast with the Nazi values ????about family.  But both do contain the same undertones of sentimentality, self-pity, and cruelty.

    Freytag von Loringhofen was at the bottom of the stairs when he suddenly saw Mrs. Goebbels ascending the concrete stairs, followed by six children.  She seemed to have "very elegant manners" and the six children behind her were some 12 years old.  The youngest is only 5 years old.  Their names are divided into634f; sweated a lot.

    Anna entered Berlin with the International Red Cross symbol tied to her left arm.  Her first interview location was Berlin's largest shelter, the Anhalter station bunker near the main Berlin-Stadtbahnhof station.  The bunker was built of reinforced concrete, with three floors above ground and two floors below ground, with walls four and a half meters thick.  Authorities provided pine stools and tables, as well as canned sardines as an emergency food supply.  With fuel and food both in short supply, both were quickly depleted.  The great advantage of the Anhalt bunker was that it was directly connected to the Berlin Underground, although of course no trains ran on the railway at this time.  People can walk five kilometers to Chengbei Station without exposing themselves.

    Anna and her partner were here and found that the bunker was overcrowded and the conditions were appalling.  More than 10,000 people crammed into the 3,600-square-meter space.  Anna recorded that people were so crowded that the toilets could not be used even when they were empty, and people could not walk to the toilets.

    One woman interviewed by Anna described how she spent six days on one of the stairs.  Germans, who love cleanliness, especially cannot stand this situation.  With water supplies cut off, drinking water has become the first need.  There was a water pump outside the station that was still functioning, so the young women near the bunker exit took the risk and ran to fetch water with buckets.  Because the Soviets had made the station a major artillery bombardment target, many people died on the way to get water.  But the person who brought the water back gained the everlasting respect of those who were too weak to fetch it themselves.  They would give those who didn't have the guts to run through Soviet crossfire a drink of water, in exchange for some food.  (To be continued.)
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