The Most Important Events That Changed History Forever

Death of Adolf Hitler (1945)

Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot on April 30, 1945, in his underground bunker in Berlin, Germany. Hitler's wife of approximately one day, Eva Braun, swallowed cyanide to die with him. Their remains were doused in gasoline and burned in the Reich Chancellery garden.

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