"A super glossy book, filled with colour photos of the locations as they are today, and mono ones of what they looked like at the time, this is your guide to the last days in the Fuhrerbunker and what happened to to the leaders of the Third Reich...the real interest is what happened after Hitler's suicide. Here you can follow the Nazi rats as they fled the sinking ship, making this a fascinating account of the downfall of those in power."

The Armourer Magazine, December 2021

This work is by a Dutch historian with an interest in the main German personalities still close to Hitler at the end of WWII. This work concentrates on the last few days of Hitler, his Berlin bunker, and those who remained with him during the days leading to the bitter end of the war. During this period, Hitler was still surrounded by his personal staff, from cleaners and cooks to his personal telephone operator, his stenographers and secretaries, his guards, his chosen ministers with, in some cases, their families and a range of military officers including a number of his senior generals. The total number in the bunker must have exceed a hundred individuals, all of whom could see their final days slipping away as the Russians entered Berlin and began to seal off Hitler’s bunker.

The account presents the reader with an air of approaching doom as Hitler and a number of his staff openly talked of their suicide – rather than be taken prisoner by the Russians. Yet many escaped and evaded the approaching Russians. So a majority of Hitler’s staff either obtained permission to depart or slipped away. A number were given Hitler’s personal assistance in the form of transport out of the city center and even to the two airports still open to the Luftwaffe. As the Russian net tightened such escapes became increasingly difficult and dangerous. The author then lists these escapees and their method and routes of escape, all of which make for fascinating reading.

For this reviewer, the book was of special interest having served in Berlin in the early 1960s when the routes and locations described were still much as they were post WWII, including access into Hitler’s bunker before it was built over.

A well researched and detailed work which will be of interest to the many followers of such new material.

Adrian Greaves - The Anglo-Zulu War Historical Society

This book is a fascinating book looking at the final days of the end of the Third Reich, it looks predominantly at the days and activities going on inside the Hitler bunker. It looks at the people involved from the Nazi leaders, to the wives, girlfriends, but also their staff and probably what you would call their civil service. I really enjoyed reading the text in the book and especially the little boxes that explained what happened and what the outcome was for each individual.

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UK Historian

'Escaping Hitler's Bunker' describers the fear and plotting of political and military leaders, trapped in Hitler's bunker, unable to flee until Hitler commits suicide. As the Russian troops battled with German soldiers in the nearby ruins, female secretarial staff, doctors, nurses, and Hitler's private pilot gathered in groups, waiting to leave and fearful of their treatment if captured by Russian troops. Hitler commits suicide, and in their groups, flee through the ruins, across dead soldiers, shell shattered government buildings and the constant noise of gunfire. The well-illustrated 'ESCAPING HITLER'S BUNKER' is a page turner, giving the reader a glimpse of the fear gripping the leaders of the Third Reich, and the fate of escape parties.

Richard Gough - Historian, writer, author of the Escape from Singapore, The jungle was Red, Outpost of the Empire, SOE Singapore 1941-42. Waiting publication Tony Poe, CIA Paramilitary in SE Asia.

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"Most interesting are DeBoer’s burrowing into the minds of those determine to live in order to read their thoughts about how they would achieve impossible escape."

ARGunners.com

This work is an excellent summation of the masses of information, much first-hand testimony garnered over the years since 1945 and is a fitting conclusion to the saga of the last days of Hitler and the Third Reich.

Martin Willoughby, Chairman of the Wessex Branch of the Western Front Association