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After he retired, a curious thing happened. The tension which had been building up to an almost unendurable point in the bunker broke, and several persons went to the canteen — to dance. The weird party soon became so noisy that word was sent from the Fuehrer's quarters requesting more quiet. The Russians might come in a few hours and kill them all — though most of them were already thinking of how they could escaped — but in the meantime, for a brief spell, now that the Fuehrer's strict control of their lives was over, they would seek pleasure where and how they could find it. The sense of relief among these people seems to have been enormous, and they danced on through the night.
希特勒一走，不可思议的事便发生了。地堡里一直不断加剧的几乎令人无法忍受的紧张气氛突然间被打破了，好几个人走进食堂—跳起舞来，怪诞的舞会不久变得吵吵嚷嚷，以至于元首的住处传出话来，要大家安静一些。俄国人说不定几小时之内就要打进来，将他们统统杀死—尽管他们中间大部分人已在考虑如何逃命—但此时此刻，既然元首对他们生活的严格控制已告结束，虽是短暂的片刻，他们也要及时行乐。
Berlin was no longer defensible. The Russians already had occupied almost all of the city. It was now merely a question of the defense of the Chancellery. It too was doomed, as Hitler and Bormann learned at the situation conference at noon on April 30, the last that was ever to take place. The Russians were just a block away. The hour for Adolf Hitler to carry out his resolve had come.
柏林的防守已经崩溃。俄国人已经占领了几乎整个城市。现在的问题仅是如何保卫总理府。然而，正如希特勒和鲍曼在４月３０日中午最后一次形势分析上所获悉的那样，总理府也注定要被攻破。俄国人离总理府仅有一个街区了。阿道夫· 希特勒实现其决心的时刻已到。
