US troops at Hitler's ruined residence in the Bavarian Alps (1945)

A sergeant of the 4th Infantry Division, U.S. Army, checks the weapons of his subordinates standing in formation.

The sergeant gives the command.

The platoon shoulders their rifles and begins to move.

A drill drill with personnel of the headquarters security platoon, 4th Infantry Division, U.S. Army.

A view of Hitler's ruined residence, the Berghof, in the Bavarian Alps in May 1945. The arrival of the 4th Division command at headquarters.

The generals get out of a jeep and walk into the headquarters building.

The division commander, Major General Harold Blakely, leaves the headquarters building accompanied by senior officers.

The generals head toward the ruins of Hitler's residence.

A Bavarian mountain landscape, a view of one of the ruined entrances to the residence (panorama), an officer descends down a path from the entrance.

An officer approaches a sentry standing at one of the entrances to the underground premises of the residence, goes inside accompanied by a soldier.

An officer enters the underground bunker of the residence.

The silhouette of an officer in an open doorway.

View of the doorway of the underground bunker of the residence, the officer comes outside.

The officer comes out of the underground bunker, approaches the sentry, begins to climb up the slope.

Panorama of the territory and the building of Hitler's residence, destroyed by American bombing (from bottom to top).

An American officer jumps out of a window opening in the destroyed building, goes to the sentry standing at one of the entrances, goes inside.

Books from Hitler's personal library.

Hitler's bookplate on one of the books.

Views of underground corridors, the officer walks along the corridors with an electric flashlight in his hand, inspects the walls.

The officer passes through the consecrated part of the corridor, turns the corner.

The officer walks along the corridors, a wall with windows for firing in one of the corridors.

Panorama of the Bavarian Alps and a view of one of the ruined entrances to the residence on the mountainside, an American officer descends down the slope.

Mountain landscape (panorama).