The Reich Chancellery and Führerbunker Complex

The Reich Chancellery and Führerbunker Complex: An Illustrated History of the Seat of the Nazi Regime is a 2006 book by Steven Lehrer, in which Lehrer recounts the history of a group of Berlin buildings, from their construction in the 18th century until their complete destruction during and after World War II.

Later the Palais had a more distinguished owner, Prince Anton Radziwill, a Polish nobleman, aristocrat, musician and politician in Prussia.

A guest at the Palais Radziwill was Polish composer and virtuoso pianist Frédéric Chopin.

It became the Reichskanzlerpalais, the Chancellery of Otto von Bismarck and subsequent German Chancellors, the last being Adolf Hitler.

Hitler's Reich Chancellery was not only a center of government but, in Winston Churchill’s words, the hub of "a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime."

Chopin playing piano in Radziwill's Berlin salon at Palais Radziwill ( Henryk Siemiradzki , 1887) [ 1 ]
Old Reich Chancellery - formerly Palais Schulenburg