Then I went to the barrack hut to see the ‘crime scene’ for myself. There were still some soldiers outside, groaning. Berger, the stenographer who had been seated opposite Hitler, was dead. The bomb had torn off his legs. The chief of the Luftwaffe general staff, whose legs had been crushed, was groaning close to death. He and Dr Karl Brandt, who had been standing next to Hitler and had taken most of the blast, died immediately afterwards. Schmundt, who lost an eye and a leg, died two weeks later in the military hospital at Rastenburg.
