Video: 'The World At War 1973(World War II Documentary)Episode 21-Nemesis:Germany(February-May 1945)' (Apr. 30, 1945, at 46:10)

(Monday, April 30, 1945, 3:30 p.m. CEST; during the Battle of Berlin on the Eastern Front during World War II) — As Soviet troops approached his Berlin bunker, Adolf Hitler committed suicide today along with his wife of one day, Eva Braun.

Hitler, 56, shot himself and Braun, 33, took cyanide.

In accordance with Hitler’s instructions, the bodies were burned in the garden behind the Reich Chancellery.