Following the Red Army advance into Berlin on 21 April 1945, Hitler, his personal secretary Martin Bormann and Joseph Goebbels remained in the Führerbunker to lead the defense of the capital against the Soviets. Göring left Berlin and moved to the south, reaching his estate at Obersalzberg on 22 April. That same day, Hitler in a lengthy diatribe against his generals first publicly admitted that the war was lost.