HITLER HAD PLANNED to leave Berlin on April 20, his fifty-sixth birthday, for Obersalzberg and there direct the last stand of the Third Reich in the legendary mountain fastness of Barbarossa.

• 希特勒原来打算在4月20日他五十六岁生日那天，离开柏林前往上萨尔斯堡，在传说中的巴巴罗沙高山堡垒中指挥第三帝国的最后抵抗。