Strip telegram dated 25 April 1945 at 06.23 by Adolf Hitler to Reichsleiter Bormann with Chefsache! Nur durch Offizier! stamped in red with an autograph in the left corner in Bormann’s hand with initials Gegen Ruckgabe an Z. Telegramme par Adolf Hitler au Reichsleiter Bormann.

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Telegramme a bandes en date du 25 avril 1945 a 06.23 par Adolf Hitler au Reichsleiter Bormann avec tampon rouge Chefsache. Nur durch Offizier, et mention autographe dans le coin gauche de la main de Bormann avec son paraphe Gegen Ruckgabe an Z. L’OKW est responsable envers moi de la conduite des operations. Il sera agi selon mes directives, que je ferai transmettre par le Chef d’etat-Major de l’armee, le General der Infanterie Krebs qui se trouve aupres de moi. Dans le secteur Sud avec l’aide de l’etat-Major B, Generalleutnant Winter . Groupe d’Armee Sud et Centre. QG Sud-Ouest. QG Sud Est. Qg Ouest. B. Dans le secteur Nord. UNMITTELBAR. Secteur de Defense Norvege, Commandement d’armee N 20 , Secteur de Defense Danemark, QG Nord-Ouest. 12e Armee. Groupe d’armee Vistule Weichsel avec la 9e Armee. Armee de Prusse Orientale. Groupe d’Armee Courlande Kurland. Pour le moment, la direction Generale des operations sous le commandement du Grand-Amiral Doenitz n’entrera pas en vigueur. L’objectif principal pour le commandement general de l’Armee OKW restera, via une attaque de toutes les forces, par tous les moyens, et de toute urgence du Nord-Ouest, du Sud-Ouest et du Sud devra realiser un pont de communication avec Berlin et ainsi apporter la victoire dans la bataille de Berlin. Le Groupe du QG de l’Armee et l’Inspecteur General de l’Arme Blindee passent sous la direction du Chef d’etat-Major de l’Armee. Le quartier Maitre general de l’armee de terre sera place sous la direction immediate du Chef du CQG de la Wehrmacht et recevra ses instructions de ce dernier. Les ordres pour l’OKL suivront. Format 21×30 cm, colle sur carton. Intitule Chefsache, indication exclusivement reservee aux telegrammes destines a Hitler en personne. La conference d’etat-major du 25 avril est la derniere donnee par Hitler. C’est a cette occasion qu’il declare a mes yeux, il ne fait aucun doute que la bataille a atteint ici son point culminant. S’il est vraiment exact qu’a San Francisco des divergences apparaissent entre les Allies et ce sera le cas, un veritable tournant ne pourra se produire que si je porte un coup au colosse bolchevique. Alors les autres finiront peut-etre par etre convaincus qu’une seule entite possede la capacite de contenir le colosse bolchevique moi, et le parti, et l’etat allemand actuel. Si le destin en decide autrement, je disparaitrai de la scene de l’Histoire mondiale, obscur fugitif deshonore. En dehors du fait qu’il reagisse encore en homme politique, Hitler oscille donc toujours entre le neant et l’espoir. C’est pourquoi il lance ses tout derniers ordres. Les deux premiers points sont significatifs de son etat d’esprit envers l’armee. Ils refletent sa mefiance absolue et ses arriere-pensees de trahison. Son obsession est de gagner la bataille de Berlin, dans la double optique politique et strategique de retourner les Allies contre les Russes. Il est, egalement, tres interessant de noter qu’il ne donne pas encore a l’amiral Doenitz, son futur successeur, la direction generale des operations. Ce qui prouve qu’il garde encore l’espoir de vaincre. Espoir qui passe par le fait que toutes les armees encore en etat de se battre se regroupent afin de creer un mouvement destine a desenclaver Berlin. L’objectif principal pour le commandement general de l’Armee OKW restera, via une attaque de toutes les forces, par tous les moyens, et de toute urgence du Nord-Ouest, du Sud-Ouest et du Sud devra realiser un pont de communication avec Berlin et ainsi apporter la victoire dans la bataille de Berlin. Ainsi, les armees qui se trouvent en Norvege, au Danemark, le groupe d’armee Vistule, le Groupe d’armee Courlande sont regroupes. Il ne s’agit, en l’espece, que d’un regroupement effectue sur des cartes d’etat-major. La majeure partie de ces elements sont dans l’impossibilite d’obeir a cet ordre. Seule la 12e armee citee avant le Groupe d’Armee Vistule est capable de pouvoir rejoindre Berlin. C’est la tres fameuse armee Wenck, celle qui fut le dernier espoir de Berlin en feu. Celle sur qui tout le monde comptait. a reception de cet ordre, Wenck cessa les combats avec les Americains et repondit a l’ordre de secourir la ville. Son armee, formee recemment, se tourna subitement vers l’est et dans une confusion generale, elle prit par surprise les Sovietiques qui encerclaient la capitale du Reich. Hitler considera la poussee de Wenck comme le dernier espoir de Berlin. Les troupes de Wenck se dirigerent vers Berlin avec un bon moral, mais furent stoppees hors de Potsdam par une forte resistance de l’Armee rouge. Incapable d’atteindre Berlin, Wenck planifia de se deplacer vers la foret de Halbe et de rejoindre le reste de la 9e armee et la garnison de Potsdam, tout en ouvrant une voie permettant aux habitants de Berlin de s’enfuir.Il s’agit la d’un document de la plus extreme importance historique marquant le dernier ordre militaire d’Adolf Hitler, et en meme temps ce qu’il croyait etre son ultime coup de des politique. Format 21×30 cm. Coins colles au scotch sur une feuille de carton vert. Salissures et petites pliures. Deux trous de perforation de classement. Traduction originale manuscrite du capitaine Leroy en français jointe. Ces documents ont ete recuperes par le capitaine Michel Leroy dans le bunker d’Hitler a Berlin ou il etait entre en fraude en novembre 1945. Ces archives se trouvaient sur la table du bureau personnel de Martin Bormann. L’histoire de leur decouverte a donne lieu a un documentaire sur la chaine RMC en 2019 intitule Fuhrerbunker, les dernieres archives et la publication d’un livre, traduit en trois langues Les dernieres archives du Bunker par Paul Villatoux et Xavier Aiolfi aux editions Memorabilia. Piece historique de la plus extreme importance. Strip telegram dated 25 April 1945 at 06.23 by Adolf Hitler to Reichsleiter Bormann with Chefsache! Nur durch Offizier! stamped in red with an autograph in the left corner in Bormann’s hand with initials Gegen Ruckgabe an Z. The OKW is responsible to me for the conduct of operations. It will be done according to my instructions, which I will have transmitted by the Army chief of staff, General der Infanterie Krebs who is with me. In the south sector with the assistance of the HQ B Generalleutnant Winter. Army Group South and Centre. HQ Southwest. HQ Southeast. HQ West. In the north sector. UNMITTELBAR. Norway defence sector, Army command N°20, Denmark defence sector, HQ Northwest. 12th Army. Vistule Army group Weichsel with the 9th Army. East Prussian army. Kurland army group. For the moment, the general direction of operations under the command of Admiral Doenitz will not come into force. The main objective for the High command of the Armed Forces OKW will remain, via an attack by all forces, by any means, and urgently in the Northwest, Southwest and South must make a means of communication with Berlin and bring victory in the battle of Berlin. The army group HQ and Inspector General of the Armoured Force go under the direction of the Commander in chief of the army. The quartermaster general of the army will be placed under the immediate direction of the GHQ Chief of the Wehrmacht and will receive instructions from him. Orders for the OKL will follow. Format 21 x 30 cm, stuck on card. Entitled Chefsache, term reserved exclusively for telegrams destined for Hitler in person. The HQ conference of the 25th April was the last given by Hitler. It was on this occasion that he declared. To my mind, there is no doubt that the battle has now reached its culmination. If it is really true that in San Francisco differences appear between the allies and that is the case a real turn in events cannot happen unless I strike the Bolshevik colossus. Then the others may perhaps be convinced that only one entity has the capacity to contain the Bolshevik colossus myself and the party and the current German state. if fate decides otherwise, I will disappear from the stage of world history, a disgraced and obscure fugitive. Hitler is still reacting like a politician and is therefore still swaying between hope and despair. That is why he sends out his very last orders. The first two points are indicative of his state of mind towards the army. They reflect his absolute distrust and his underlying thoughts of treason. His obsession is to win the battle of Berlin, with the dual political and strategic perspective of turning the allies against the Russians. It is also very interesting to note that he has not yet given the general direction of operations to Admiral Doenitz, his successor. Thus proving that he still had the hope of winning. The hope that all armies still able to fight will come together to create a movement to open up Berlin. The principal objective for the high command of the armed forces OKW will remain, via an attack by all forces, by all means and in the utmost urgency from the Northwest, from the Southwest and from the South and must make a communication bridge with Berlin and thereby bring victory to the battle of Berlin. The armies in Norway, Denmark, the Vistule army group,the Courland army group were regrouped. It was in fact merely a regrouping carried out on the maps of the general staff. The majority of these units were unable to obey this order. Joachim FEST The Last Days of Hitler, Perrin. This news is certainly the reflection of an information dispatch such as those in this set of archives. This shows the poverty of their sources of information and the importance of these dispatches. Occupied from the 9th April 1940, it was not liberated until the 8th May 1945 after the surrender of the German forces. Also liberated after the 8th May 45. This group of armies was created 24th January 1945 to protect Berlin from the Soviet army that was advancing on the city along the river Vistule, Weichsel in German. However, since its creation it has been pointed out that its name was badly chosen as the units were concentrated to the east of the Oder. The Courlande army groups, Heeresgruppe Kurland, is a group of German armies of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. It was created on the Eastern front from the remainder of the north army groups, isolated in the Courland peninsula by the advance of Soviet armed forces during the Baltic offensive in 1944. This group remained cut off until the end of the Second World War in Europe. All these units received an order from the Wehrmacht command to surrender during the capitulation of 8th May 1945, representing 180,000 men. Only the 12th Army mentioned before the Vistule Army group was capable of joining Berlin. It was the very famous Wenck , who was the last hope of Berlin in flames and the one that everyone was counting on. When this order was received, Wenck ceased fighting with the Americans and responded to the order to save the city. His recently formed army suddenly turned to the east and in the general confusion they took the Soviets by surprise who were encircling the capital of the Reich. Hitler considered Wenck’s advance as the last hope for Berlin. Wenck’s troops headed towards Berlin with a good morale but were stopped outside Potsdam by strong resistance from the Red Army. Incapable of reaching Berlin, Wenck planned to move towards the Halbe forest and join the rest of the 9th Army and the Potsdam garrison, while opening a way for the inhabitants of Berlin to flee. This document is of the highest historical importance indicating Hitler’s final order and what he believed to be his final throw of the political dice.Format 21 x 30 cm. Corners sellotaped on a sheet of green card. Staining and light creasing. Two holes for filing. Original handwritten translation in French by Captain Leroy attached. These documents were salvaged by Captain Michel Leroy from Hitler’s bunker in Berlin, where he had secretly entered in November 1945. These archives were found on Martin Bormann’s personal desk. The story of their discovery was the subject of a documentary on the RMC channel in 2019 entitled Führerbunker, the Final Archives and also the subject of a book The Final Archives of the Führerbunker by Paul Villatoux and Xavier Aiolfi published by Memorabilia and which has been translated into three languages. Etat II+.