Adolf Hitler spent 105 days living almost completely below ground during the collapse of Nazi Germany. Despite being built primarily as an artillery defense and characterized by the slate grey concrete in which it was encased, the Führerbunker was surprisingly luxurious, including dining rooms, a sumptuous study for the Nazi leader, and a conference room. It was here that Hitler married his lover Eva Braun shortly after midnight on April 29, as Berlin was pounded by artillery strikes by the advancing Allied forces.

Senior Nazis Joseph Goebbels and Martin Bormann were witnesses at the ceremony, though they were part of a dwindling circle of loyalists who, following Hitler, were willing to remain in Berlin as the city became encircled. Most of Hitler’s former allies had left Berlin. The wedding party, it seems, was preparing to go down with the ship. The following day, Hitler and Braun entered the Nazi leader’s study and failed to emerge. They were found slumped together on a couch, which was stained with blood from a gunshot wound at Hitler’s temple. Braun’s body was said to smell strongly of almonds, a sign that she had taken a cyanide pill, one of which had hours earlier been tested on Hitler’s dog, Blondi. Other dogs in the bunker were also killed. Goebbels and his wife died by suicide in the bunker, arranging the murders of their six children, also in the bunker, before they ended their own lives, per The Sydney Morning Herald, while Bormann died on the surface attempting to flee Berlin.