The author was a combat veteran, and a much better informed eyewitness than Traudl Junge He is the only living person to have experienced the events portrayed in THE DOWNFALL
A career soldier, Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven was one of the lucky few officers ordered out of the Sixth Army in January 1943. Appointed ADC to General Guderian, then General Krebs, he served at Hitler's HQ in East Prussia and then in the Berlin bunker. After the war he joined the West German army and served as a staff officer in various NATO postings.
[Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven] paints a stirring picture of a dictatorship in its final chaos, when no one could trust anyone at all. - THE SPECTATOR - M.R.D. FootVon Loringhoven leaves us in no doubt about Hitler's cruelty. - THE GUARDIAN - Chris Petit
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