Introduction

Chapter I. Wilhelmstraße

• Schulenburg Palais

• Radziwill Palais

• Reichskanzlerpalais

• The Chancellery Annex

• The Bismarck Museum

• Erich Salomon visits the Chancellery

Chapter II. Hitler in the Chancellery

• Hitler named Reich Chancellor

• Hitler’s first Chancellery renovations

• Borsig Palais

• The Annex Balcony

• Reichskanzlerpalais Events 1933-39

  • The New York Times Interviews Hitler

  • Leni Riefenstahl lunches with Hitler

  • Hitler meets Sir John Simon and Anthony Eden

  • Hitler meets Lord Londonderry

  • Hitler meets Max Schmeling

  • Hitler Welcomes German Athletes to the Reich Chancellery during the Olympic Games, 1936

  • Hitler Receives Sir Thomas Beecham

  • Hitler receives Thomas J. Watson

  • Hitler’s Birthdays in the Chancellery

  • A Mysterious Intruder

  • Herbert Hoover visits the Chancellery

  • Hitler announces Germania, the New Berlin

Chapter III. The New Reich Chancellery

• The Meyers

• The Wertheims

• Hitler’s Chancellery Plans Go Forward

• Events in the New Reich Chancellery

  • Dedication

  • First Foreign Visitor

  • Emil Hacha yields Czechoslovakia

  • Rome Berlin Axis Sealed

  • Hilter Congratulates Submarine Commander Günther Prien

  • Hitler Tells His Generals of His Plans to Attack the West

  • Sumner Welles Peace Mission

  • Hitler returns to the Chancellery after his armies smash France

  • Molotov visits the Chancellery

  • Franz Gürtner’s Chancellery Funeral

  • Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka visits the Chancellery

  • A day in the Chancellery

  • The Anti-Comintern Pact

  • Hitler confers with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al Husseini

  • Fritz Todt’s Chancellery Funeral

  • Reinhard Heydrich’s Chancellery Funeral

  • Gerhard Boldt visits the New Reich Chancellery

Chapter IV. Bunkers and Führerbunker

• Bunkers Under the New Reich Chancellery

• Other Nearby Bunkers

• The Führerbunker

• Führerbunker Details

• Hitler Moves In

• Life in the Führerbunker

• The Emergency Field Hospital under the Reich Chancellery

• Hitler’s Last Days

• “Dear Adi”: Love Letters to the Führer

• Hitler’s Library

• Frederick the Great: the King and his Portraits

• Hitler’s Other Paintings

• Wagner manuscripts lost

• Hitler’s Money

• An American in the Bunker

• Truman and Churchill visit Wilhelmstraße

• John F. Kennedy visits Wilhelmstraße

• The New York Times Visits Wilhelmstraße

• Demolition of the Bunker

• Speer After Hitler

Appendices

• Appendix A. King Friedrich Wilhelm I presents Wilhelmstraße 77 to Graf von der Schulenburg

• Appendix B. Reich Chancellors 1871-1945

• Appendix C. Paul von Hindenburg

• Appendix D. Interior renovations to the Reichskanzlerpalais 1875-1878

• Appendix E. Further renovations to the Reichskanzlerpalais 1890-1925

• Appendix F. Notable Gatherings in the Reichskanzlerpalais before 1914

• Appendix G. Hitler's speech at the topping-out ceremony of the New Reich Chancellery in the Deutschlandhalle, Aug 2, 1938

• Appendix H. Hitler's speech in the Berlin Sportpalast, January 9th, 1939, on the occasion of the completion of the New Reich Chancellery

• Appendix I. Adolf Hitler describes his Chancellery Renovations

• Appendix J. Text of Hitler’s agreement to occupy Czechoslovakia, signed in the New Reich Chancellery

• Appendix K. Heinrich Himmler’s Heydrich Eulogy

Page notes

References

Acknowledgments

Index