Hitler kills himself in the bunker
April 30, 1945
With Soviet tanks a few blocks from the Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun, wrote a testament blaming the Jews, and shot himself in the mouth. Aides burned the bodies in the garden. A week later Germany surrendered unconditionally. Twelve years of the thousand-year Reich had ended in fire and suicide.
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- Liberation of the camps · Europe · War
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- V-E Day · Europe · War
- Nagasaki bombed · East Asia · War
- Yalta Conference carves up postwar Europe · Europe · Politics
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