The Last Thirty Days: War Diary of the Wehrmacht  High Command from April to May 1945 The Battle for Berlin - Reflections on the Events of 1945

This book presents the final phase of the war as seen daily by a young officer of the German general staff. The reader is a witness to the dramatic events in headquarters and in Berlin. Until the bitter end, the command staff remained the German command authority and was employed by the Allies even after capitulation. The way in which the records were made with their dramatic sequence of possibilities, hopes, limitations and illusions, is scientifically explained in the introduction by historian Walther Hubatsch. By concentrating on the major events, Schultz-Naumann, as keeper of the War Diary, has not only recorded them, but also has clarified the effects of command decisions. His War Diary and his representation of the Battle for Berlin are inexorably linked together. Gravely wounded towards the end of the war, Major Schultz-Naumann, a trained military historian, was assigned to keep the official War Diary of the German High Command. After the War, he was among the first officers attached to NATO.