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

A Shell Of What Once Was

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

While Hitler’s accommodations inside of the Führerbunker may never have been ideal, they were still much nicer than the majority of the population in Berlin and the rest of war-torn Europe. They were big enough to house Hitler and Eva, as well as Joseph Goebbels, his wife, and six children who also killed themselves inside of the bunker.

Here, we can see the full extent of destruction that occurred within the underground bunker. Very few things of worth or importance were untouched or left behind. Only weeks after Hitler committed suicide, his bunker looked like every other part of Berlin.