Death of Adolf Hitler - Dramatizations

Dramatizations

• The Death of Adolf Hitler is a British 1973 made-for-television production. Set in the Führerbunker, it follows the last ten days of Hitler’s life. It stars Frank Finlay in the title role, who won a BAFTA award of Best Actor for his performance.
• Hitler: The Last Ten Days is a 1973 feature film directed by Ennio De Concini and starring Sir Alec Guinness in the title role.
• The Bunker was a 1981 made-for-television film directed by George Schaefer and based on the book The Bunker (1978) by James O'Donnell about the last months of the war and days in the Führerbunker from 17 January 1945 to 2 May 1945. Sir Anthony Hopkins won an Emmy Award for his portrayal of Hitler.
• War and Remembrance is a 1989 American TV miniseries. Part 12 (its final part) devotes several minutes to a realistic portrayal of Hitler's final few days, except that General Weidling is replaced by a fictitious character ("General Armin von Roon").
• Der Untergang (Downfall) is a 2004 German feature film largely set in and around the Führerbunker. Director Oliver Hirschbiegel reconstructed the look and atmosphere through eyewitness accounts, various survivor memoirs, and other verified sources. It also carries an interview with Traudl Junge.

• Death of Adolf Hitler: Images

• Hitler (right) visiting Berlin defenders in early April 1945 with Hermann Göring (centre) and the Chief of OKW, Field Marshal Keitel (partially hidden)

• Heinz Linge, Hitler's valet, was one of the first persons into the study after Hitler had committed suicide.

• Joseph Goebbels, his wife Magda and their six children. Standing in the back is Goebbels' stepson, Harald Quandt, the sole family member to survive the war.

• Churchill sits on a damaged chair from the Führerbunker in July 1945.

• The destroyed Führerbunker in 1946