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

Inside Of The Bunker

Photo Credit: William Vandivert/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

The photos taken by Wiliam Vandivert were taken two weeks after the Red Army forces had looted and destroyed much of the interior. Here, we can see Russian war correspondents inspecting a blood-stained sofa.

They had to rely on candles and other sources of light because most of the electricity in the bunker and all of Berlin was dead. It has been assumed that the blood on the sofa was Hitler’s as he had shot himself while his wife had died from cyanide poisoning.