Hitler's death

What really happened in the Führer's bunker? This documentary reconstructs in detail the final days in Hitler's last hiding place and the events following his death.

Using interviews with contemporary witnesses and rare archive material, Michael Kloft reconstructs the days before and after Hitler's suicide in 1945 in this documentary.

They have been described many times in books, memoirs and films: Adolf Hitler's last ten days in his bunker deep beneath the Reich Chancellery in Berlin.

Did Hitler shoot himself, as Prussian military honour demanded? Or did his loyal servant deliver the coup de grâce after he had bitten into a poison capsule?