Video: '296B - The Death of Adolf Hitler - WW2 - April 30, 1945'

(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.

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

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