Image: Hitler as photographed on Mar. 20, 1945

(Friday, April 20, 1945; during the Battle of Berlin on the Eastern Front during World War II) — On his 56th birthday, German dictator Adolf Hitler left his Führerbunker to decorate a group of Hitler Youth soldiers in Berlin. It would be his last trip to the surface from his underground bunker.

That afternoon, Berlin was bombarded by Soviet artillery for the first time.

Video: 'The World At War 1973(World War II Documentary)Episode 21-Nemesis:Germany(February-May 1945)' (Apr. 20, 1945, at 23:45)