Incredible Images From The First Western Photographer To Step Foot Inside Hitler’s Hidden Bunker

Useless Documents Of The Nazi Regime

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One of the few things actually left behind and intact in the bunker were numerous drawers filled with Nazi documents. Although these may seem too important to leave behind because they could contain valuable information, these pictures were taken weeks after the original raid.

Almost immediately after Germany’s surrender, Soviet intelligence agents scoured the bunker looking for anything that might aid in ending the war as fast as possible. Everything that was left was mostly useless and not something that Soviet soldiers wanted to take for themselves.