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World War II: Führerbunker: On his 56th birthday Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.
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Subterranean bunker complex for Adolf Hitler
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Nazi Party youth wing (1926–1945)
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