Unpublished LIFE photos in Hitler Bunker at end of WWII

Life magazine (or whatever it's called now that it exists as an archive and some online and occasional physical products) just released some previously unpublished images taken 67 years ago Monday, in the hours just after the Allies took the heart of Berlin to effectively end the war in Europe. Check out the remarkable photographs here.

Photographer William Vandivert, who went on to co-found the famed Magnum photo agency with some of the best-known photojournalists of the era, was definitely Johnny on the spot, slipping into  the central Berlin area where Hitler had his offices and his bunker, and where he died.

I'm particularly taken by the 12th slide, a photo of rubble that included a crushed globe and a fallen bust of Hitler, as good a metaphorical summation as I can imagine of the events of that day.