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(Tuesday, May 1, 1945, 9:40 p.m. CEST; during the Battle of Berlin on the Eastern Front during World War II) — The radio station Reichssender Hamburg interrupted their normal program tonight to announce that an important broadcast would soon be made. After dramatic funeral music by Wagner and Bruckner, Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz (appointed as Hitler’s successor in his will) announced that Hitler was dead (Hitler had actually committed suicide the previous day).

Tonight’s announcement immediately followed the suicide of Hitler’s propaganda minister, Josef Goebbels.