The museum provides a detailed account of Hitler’s rise to power and fall. This is one of the most researched periods in history. Leaving the museum after five hours, Ingrid was demoralized because so little has seemed to have changed in the world and ruthless dictators are still coming to power.
In 1940, Hitler ordered the construction of bunkers when the allies began bombing German cities. The museum contains facsimiles of some of the rooms of his own bunker, which has been completely demolished, though pictures of its rooms, taken both by American and Russian soldiers, are displayed here. The evidence of his suicide is indisputable, but some people still believe he escaped.
Replica of Hitler’s bunker.
Facsimile of the room in which he and Eva Braun committed suicide.
The museum itself is a bunker. During one of the air raids 12,000 people were crammed in to escape the bombing. When, to hinder the advance of Russian troops, the SS blew up the bulkheads to the Landwehr Canal to flood subway tunnels, this bunker was also flooded. Many died trying to escape.
A bomb shell before an enlarged photograph.
Brother and Sister, Hans and Sophie Scholl (1921-1943) created the White Rose resistance movement. They were discovered and executed.
Claus von Stauffenberg attempted to kill Hitler with a bomb brought into a meeting. He was arrested and execute.
The Scholls and von Stauffenberg are among the very few who put up resistance against the NAZI regime,