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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