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Unpublished Photo: This Vandivert shot not only captures the chaotic state of Hitler’s bunker, but also features an item that recalls the wanton gangsterism that characterized Nazi rule: a 16th-century painting looted from a museum in Milan. In the typed notes (see next slide) that Vandivert sent to LIFE’s New York offices immediately after getting to Berlin, he described his intense, harried visit to the bunker: 

“Note and note well. These pix were made in the dark with only candle for illumination … Our small party of four beat all rest of mob who came down about forty minutes after we got there.”

LIFE’s Will Vandivert was the first western photographer to go where few photographers would dare to go — inside Hitler’s Führerbunker.