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Adolf Hitler, chancellor and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, committed suicide via a gunshot to the head on 30 April 1945 in the Führerbunker in Berlin [a] after it became clear that Germany would lose the Battle of Berlin, which led to the end of World War II in Europe.
- Last Will and Testament
First page of the political testament. Adolf Hitler,...
- Conspiracy Theories
Hitler depicted by the US Secret Service in 1944 to show how...
- Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an...
- Battle of Berlin
Result: Soviet victory Collapse of Nazi Germany; Death of...
- Cyanide Poisoning
Cyanide poisoning is poisoning that results from exposure to...
- Reich Chancellery
The Reich Chancellery (German: Reichskanzlei) was the...
- Last Will and Testament
The 20 July plot was a failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler, the chancellor and leader of Nazi Germany, and subsequently to overthrow the Nazi regime on 20 July 1944. The plotters were part of the German resistance, mainly composed of Wehrmacht officers. [1] [2] The leader of the conspiracy, Claus von Stauffenberg, planned to kill Hitler ...
General der Gebirgstruppe Hubert Lanz and Generals Hans Speidel, Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz, and Paul Loehning planned to arrest or kill Hitler during his visit to Army Detachment Kempf in Ukraine. Strachwitz was to surround Hitler and his escorts with his tanks.
Killing Hitler: Directed by Jeremy Lovering. With Peter McDonald, Kate Ashfield, Kenneth Cranham, Keith Allen. A drama-documentary about Operation Foxley, a 1944 British plan to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945 after being hunted by Soviet troops storming Berlin.
From a beer hall skirmish to a conspiracy by a cabal of Nazi dissidents, learn the stories behind six assassins who nearly succeeded in killing Hitler.
On April 30, 1945, holed up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. Soon after, Germany...