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hours after their arrival, still were waiting for some
food; ill people, dying people. We visited the sick
room and also a sort of nursery, where the children
were brought together during the day. In the evening,
they were returned to their parents in the different
parts of the building. The children were just going to
get their food when we came. There was anticipation
in the air. A chunk of bread and a mug of potato
soup is not much for a child between five and twelve
years old, but at least it is something, and it is eaten
very carefully when it is the only meal of the day,
when one has to go to bed on an empty stomach,
only to wake up with a gnawing hunger. The scene
in this nursery in the building on Kuppstrasse, gave
us a very clear picture of what the Swedish feeding
of children in Berlin could mean.
I had expressed a desire to see the bunker in which
Hitler spent his last days, and we paid it a visit. It
was grim to walk through the now totally destroyed
but at one time beautiful rooms of the
Reichschancellery, and go down into the shelter. Outside the
entrance, the bodies of Hitler and Eva Braun had
very likely been burnt in order not to fall into the
hands of the Allies, and thereby prove to the whole
world in what way the Nazi leader left the world
in which he had caused so much suffering.
The Bunker consists of a number of rooms which
had evidently been very comfortably furnished. A
Russian sentry and a German policeman, who were
guarding the entrance, gladly gave us some
information which they had probably given to most of the
visitors to the bunker. They were of the opinion that,
it was far from certain that Hitler was dead. They
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