History Channel - Dead Mens Secrets Set 1 (2002) Part 9 Escape from Hitler's Bunker

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Part 9 Escape from Hitler's Bunker

In 1945 Soviet tanks roared through the flaming ruins of Berlin. In Hitler's bunker under the Reich Chancellery waited a group of the most hated men in history. The leader of Nazi Germany spent his final days cowering in his Berlin Bunker as his empire crumbled, before consuming cyanide and shooting himself with a pistol as the Red Army closed in. After storming central Berlin, the Soviets discovered Hitler's body, along with the lair 55 feet under the Reich Chancellery, which contained 18 small rooms and was fully self-sufficient, with its own water and electrical supply. While Hitler and Goebbels killed themselves, others decided to make a break for it. Hermann Goering and Heinrich Himmler were caught soon after their flight from the bunker. But what happened to party secretary Martin Bormann and Gestapo chief Heinrich Muller? With their city occupied and every Allied soldier on the lookout for high-ranking Nazi officials, how is it possible that these men escaped and where did they go?

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