We learn that officials were still receiving their wages normally until the end of April 1945, and the last concert of the Berliner Philharmoniker took place in mid-April 1945, three weeks before the end of the war, with the Russian army less than 100km from Berlin.
By its very sharp focus, this is a book for those who know the Second World War and want to "zoom in" on this aspect: why (and how) Nazi Germany she held so long?