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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 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
The major Western Allied contribution to the battle was the...
- Cyanide Poisoning
An inquest determined that Turing's death from cyanide...
- 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
Illness and death Joseph Stalin 's health had begun to deteriorate towards the end of the Second World War . He had atherosclerosis as a result of heavy smoking, a mild stroke around the time of the Victory Parade in May 1945, and a severe heart attack in October 1945.
Category:1945 deaths. This category has articles on people who died in the year 1945. See also: 1945 births . Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1945 deaths.
1945 ( MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1945th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 945th year of the 2nd millennium, the 45th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1940s decade.
May 16, 1945 (Wednesday) The Battle of the Malacca Strait ended in British victory and the sinking of the Japanese heavy cruiser Haguro. Born: Nicky Chinn, English-American songwriter and record producer; in London, England; Died: Kaju Sugiura, 49, Japanese admiral (killed in the sinking of the Haguro) May 17, 1945 (Thursday)
Death dates of victims of the Great Purge. Stalin 's purges and massacres between 1936 and the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany ( Great Purge) had about one million victims. This list includes some of the most prominent victims along with the date of their deaths.
Apr 30, 2015 · April 30, 2015 9:00 AM EDT. I t wasn’t immediately clear what had happened on April 30, 1945. This much the world knew: Adolf Hitler was gone, one way or another. The week after, TIME ran a list...
