Otto Günsche
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Otto Günsche (September 24, 1917 – October 2, 2003) was a Sturmbannführer in the SS and a close aide of Adolf Hitler.
Günsche was present (and a survivor) at the July 20 plot to kill Hitler.
As the end of the Third Reich became imminent, Hitler asked Günsche to ensure that his body would be burnt after his death. Having done so, Günsche left the Führerbunker a few hours later, on 30 April, 1945. He was captured by Soviet troops encircling the city soon thereafter.
The Soviet Union released him in 1956 and he returned to Germany.
He died of heart failure at his home in Lohmar, Germany in 2003. He had three children, including a son named Kai.
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Günsche was portrayed by actor Götz Otto in Der Untergang (2004), a film about Hitler's final days.
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- James O'Donnell, The Bunker
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April 22 | April 23
Julius Schaub • Christa Schröder • Johanna Wolf | Theodor Morell • Albert Speer
April 29 | April 30 | May 1
Robert Ritter von Greim • Hanna Reitsch • Heinz Lorenz • Wilhelm Zander • Heinrich Müller • Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven | Otto Günsche • Gerda Christian | Wilhelm Mohnke • Martin Bormann • Artur Axmann • Traudl Junge • Ludwig Stumpfegger • Hans Baur • Erich Kempka • Johann Rattenhuber • Günther Schwägermann • Werner Naumann • Hans-Erich Voss
Committed suicide | Killed
Adolf Hitler • Eva Braun • Hermann Fegelein • Joseph Goebbels • Magda Goebbels • Wilhelm Burgdorf • Peter Högl • Hans Krebs | Goebbels children
Date of departure uncertain
Heinz Linge • Walther Hewel • Constanze Manziarly • Nicholaus von Below
Still present when Soviet forces arrived on May 2
Rochus Misch • Erna Flegel • Werner Haase • Johannes Hentschel
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