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The news of Hitler's death was announced on German radio the next day, 1 May. [3] Eyewitnesses who saw Hitler's body immediately after his suicide testified that he died from a self-inflicted gunshot, which has been established to have been a shot to the temple .
- Last Will and Testament
The last will was a short document signed on 29 April at...
- 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
Death of Adolf Hitler and other high-ranking Nazi officials;...
- Cyanide Poisoning
Cyanide poisoning is poisoning that results from exposure to...
- Reich Chancellery
The Reich Chancellery (German: Reichskanzlei) was the...
- Ruhr Pocket
The Ruhr pocket was a battle of encirclement that took place...
- World War II in Europe
The European theatre of World War II was one of the two main...
- Last Will and Testament
After the Allied invasion of France, Germany was conquered by the Soviet Union from the east and the other Allies from the west, and capitulated on 8 May 1945. Hitler's refusal to admit defeat led to massive destruction of German infrastructure and additional war-related deaths in the closing months of the war.
Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, cause of death (if known), and reference.
May 19, 2018 · A thousand people were working at BBC Monitoring at Caversham Park by the time of Hitler's death. Among them was a senior Italian monitor, Doris Penny, who became Karl's first wife.
Adolf Hitler took his own life on 30 April 1945, dying in ignominy in an underground shelter at the Reich Chancellery two days after his fascist ally Benito Mussolini had been assassinated by...
Nov 27, 2021 · Hitler began to indulge in delusional strategies that would allow Germany to somehow regain the initiative as the might of the Allies squeezed in from either side. On April 30, Hitler committed suicide, but not before clarifying who his successors were to be.
Apr 30, 2015 · William Vandivert—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Papers (mostly news reports dated April 29, the day before Hitler and Eva Bruan killed themselves) inside Hitler's bunker, Berlin, 1945.
