The Battle of Berlin

Chapter 49

“Berlin Bleibt Deutsch”

16 April - 2 May, 1945

The Nazi Government Collapses - The Fuhrerbunker

Herman Goring - 20 April

Reichsmarschall of the Luftwaffe
Fled to Bavaria

Robert Ley - 21 April

Head of Reich Labor Front
Fled to Bavaria

Heinrich Himmler - 20 April

Reichsfuhrer SS
Fled to Flensburg

Eckhard Christian - 22 April

Luftwaffe Chief of Staff
Evacuated

Albert Bormann - 23 April

Personal Adjutant to the Fuhrer
Evacuated to Bavaria

Joachim von Ribbentrop - 23 April

Foreign Minister
Fled to Flensburg

Albert Speer - 23 April

Minister of Armaments and Production
Fled to Flensburg

Julias Schaub - 23 April

Personal Adjutant to the Fuhrer
Evacuated to Bavaria

Ernst Robert Grawitz - 24 April

Director - German Red Cross
Suicide

Robert Ritter von Greim - 28 April

Chief - Oberkommando der Luftwaffe
Evacuated to Schleswig-Holstein

Hermann Fegelein - 28 April

SS Liaison to the Fuhrer
Executed for Desertion

Adolf Hitler - 30 April

Fuhrer
Suicide

Martin Bormann - 1 May

NSDAP Party Secretary
Deceased during breakout

Arthur Axmann - 1 May

Reichsjugendfuhrer
Fled to Lubeck

Josef Goebbels - 1 May

Reichskanzler (Propaganda Minister)
Suicide

Wilhelm Burgdorf - 2 May

Chief of Army Personnel Office
Suicide

Hans Krebs - 2 May

Army Chief of Staff
Suicide

Heinrich Mueller - Unknown

Director - Gestapo
Missing, Likely killed