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Hitler moved into the Fhrerbunker. He was joined by his senior staff, Martin Bormann, and later, Eva Braun and Joseph Goebbels with Magda and their six children who took residence in the upper Vorbunker.

Previously a forced labour camp for juveniles, the camp infrastructure was used as an extermination camp for "sick, no longer efficient, and over 52 years old women".

The medieval city centre was systematically bombed by the Royal Air Force and the U.S. Army Air Forces and about ninety percent of it was destroyed in only one hour, with 1,800 residents killed and roughly 100,000 displaced.

The final major Luftwaffe offensive during the war and a massive effort to disable allied air power in the low countries. The effort was ultimately a pyrrhic tactical success. Allied losses were replaced in weeks.

One of the bloodiest sieges of the war. German and Hungarian troops defended the city for a month and a half, against attacks by elements of Malinovsky's 2nd Ukrainian Front, before they unconditionally surrendered.