The front cover of Time magazine, May 7, 1945. Although he had committed suicide on April 30th and German radio reported Hitler had died in battle on May 1, his death was widely presumed but not yet confirmed (and although the artist depicted Hitler's eyes as brown, they were blue).

For fiction about Hitler's death see Hitler in popular culture

The generally accepted cause of Adolf Hitler's death on April 30, 1945 is suicide by gunshot and cyanide poisoning. The dual method and other circumstances surrounding the event encouraged rumors that Adolf Hitler may have survived the end of World War II along with speculation about what happened to his remains; however, consensus on most of the details was eventually reached among historians, aided by the 1993 opening of records kept by the Russian KGB and FSB. Image File history File links Hitlertime. ... Image File history File links Hitlertime. ... (Clockwise from upper left) Time magazine covers from May 7, 1945; July 25, 1969; December 31, 1999; September 14, 2001; and April 21, 2003. ... May 7 is the 127th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (128th in leap years). ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889–30 April 1945) was the Führer of the National Socialist German Workers Party and of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. ... (help· info) (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 and Führer (Leader) of Germany from 1934 until his death. ... April 30 is the 120th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (121st in leap years), with 245 days remaining, as the last day in April. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending ones own life. ... A cyanide is any chemical compound that contains the cyano group C≡N, with the carbon atom triple-bonded to the nitrogen atom. ... Combatants Allies: • Soviet Union, • UK & Commonwealth, • USA, • France/Free France, • China, • Poland, • ...and others Axis: • Germany, • Japan, • Italy, • ...and others Casualties Military dead: 18 million Civilian dead: 33 million Full list Military dead: 7 million Civilian dead: 4 million Full list World War II, also known as the Second World... The KGB emblem and motto: The sword and the shield KGB (transliteration of КГБ) is the Russian-language abbreviation for State Security Committee, (Russian: (help· info); Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti). ... The FSB (ФСБ) is a state security organisation in Russia, and is the domestic successor organization to the KGB. Its name is an acronym from the Russian Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii (Федера́льная слу́жба безопа́сности Росси́йской Федера́ции) which translates to Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation. ...

Standard account of Hitler's death

This is a reconstruction of the layout of the Führerbunker. It is believed that Hitler and Eva Braun were found in the room marked "Hitler's Sitting Room".

This map shows the approximate location of the two bunkers (Führerbunker and Vorbunker) in Berlin 1945.

Hitler relocated to the Führerbunker on January 16, 1945, where he presided over the rapid disintegration of his Third Reich as the Allies advanced from both east and west. By late April, Soviet forces had entered Berlin itself and were battling their way to the center of the city where the Chancellery was located. Realizing that defeat was imminent, Hitler began making preparations for his suicide. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2409x3390, 892 KB) Licensing I hereby release this image with the following declaration: Description This is a map of the Fuehrerbunker which I created in 2004. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2409x3390, 892 KB) Licensing I hereby release this image with the following declaration: Description This is a map of the Fuehrerbunker which I created in 2004. ... This is a reconstruction of the layout of the Führerbunker. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (720x946, 361 KB) Licensing I hereby release this image with the following declaration: Description This is a map of the location of the Fuehrerbunker and Vorbunker which I created in 2004. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (720x946, 361 KB) Licensing I hereby release this image with the following declaration: Description This is a map of the location of the Fuehrerbunker and Vorbunker which I created in 2004. ... This is a reconstruction of the layout of the Führerbunker. ... This is a reconstruction of the layout of the Führerbunker. ... January 16 is the 16th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... When spelt with a capital A, Allies usually denotes the countries supporting the Triple Entente who fought together against the Central Powers in World War I and against the Axis Powers in World War II. For more information, see the related articles: Allies of World War I and Allies of... State motto (Russian): Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! (Transliterated: Proletarii vsekh stran, soedinyaytes!) (Translated: Workers of the world, unite!) Capital Moscow Official language None; Russian (de facto) Government Federation of Socialist republics Area  - Total  - % water 1st before collapse 22,402,200 km² Approx. ... Model of the new Reich Chancellory. ...

Hitler finished drafting his last will and testament at 4 am on April 29. Shortly after midnight on April 30, 1945, Hitler married Eva Braun in a small civil ceremony in a map room within the bunker complex, and dictated his personal will and political testament to secretary Traudl Junge, before finally retiring to bed at around 4:00 am. The last will and testament of Adolf Hitler were dictated by Hitler to his secretary Traudl Junge in his Berlin Führerbunker on April 29, 1945 the day he and Eva Braun married. ... April 29 is the 119th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (120th in leap years). ... April 30 is the 120th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (121st in leap years), with 245 days remaining, as the last day in April. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler Eva Anna Paula Braun (February 6, 1912 – April 30, 1945) was the longtime companion (and ultimately, wife for a night and a day) of Adolf Hitler. ... Traudl Junge just after World War Two. ...

Shortly after noon on April 30, Hitler had a short meeting with Party Secretary Bormann before eating a small lunch consisting of spaghetti with a light sauce. Hitler and Eva Braun then said their personal farewells to members of the Führerbunker staff and fellow occupants, including the Goebbels family, Bormann, the secretaries, and several military officers. At around 2:30 pm, as Soviet forces raised their banner over the neighboring Reichstag, Adolf and Eva Hitler went into Hitler's personal study. Hitler and Bormann in the early 1940s Martin Bormann (June 17, 1900 – May 2, 1945?) was a prominent German National Socialist (Nazi) official who became head of the Party Chancellery (Parteikanzlei) and Private Secretary to Adolf Hitler, gaining his trust and deriving immense power within the Third Reich by controlling... Joseph Goebbels Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels (October 29, 1897 – May 1, 1945) was Adolf Hitlers Propaganda Minister (see Propagandaministerium) in Nazi Germany. ... the Reichstag building (June 2003) A Red Army soldier flies the Soviet flag over the Reichstag The Reichstag building in Berlin was constructed as the place where the Reichstag, the parliament of the German Empire, would convene. ...

Some witnesses later reported hearing a loud gunshot at around 3:30 pm (the Goebbels' young son is said to have declared, "A direct hit!" thinking it was a bomb overhead). After waiting a few minutes, Hitler's valet, Heinz Linge, with Bormann at his side, opened the door to the study. Linge later stated he immediately noted a scent of burned almonds in the small study, a common observation made in the presence of prussic acid, a form of cyanide. The Hitlers were both sitting on a small sofa, Eva on the left, Adolf to the right. Eva's body slumped away from Adolf's. Hitler appeared to have shot himself in the right temple with a 7.65 mm pistol which lay at his feet. Blood was dripping from the wound to his right temple and had made a large stain on the left arm of the sofa. Eva had no visible physical wounds and Linge assumed she had poisoned herself. Heinz Linge (1909-1982) was one of Adolf Hitlers servants at his headquarters. ... Hydrogen cyanide is a chemical compound with chemical formula HCN. A solution of hydrogen cyanide in water is called hydrocyanic acid or prussic acid. ... A cyanide is any chemical compound that contains the cyano group C≡N, with the carbon atom triple-bonded to the nitrogen atom. ...

Several witnesses stated the two bodies were carried to a small, bombed-out garden outside the bunker complex, where they were doused with petrol and set alight by Linge and members of Hitler's personal SS bodyguard. The SS guards and Linge later noted the fire did not completely destroy the corpses, but Soviet shelling of the bunker compound made further cremation attempts impossible and the remains were later covered up in a shallow bomb crater. Gasoline, as it is known in North America, or petrol, in many Commonwealth countries (sometimes also called motor spirit) is a petroleum-derived liquid mixture consisting primarily of hydrocarbons, used as fuel in internal combustion engines. ... The infamous double-sig rune SS insignia. ...

Soviet troops stormed the Chancellory at approximately 11:00 pm. Hitler and Braun's badly burned and hastily buried remains were recovered by a SMERSH unit which was subsequently assigned to locate the Führer's body (it was attached to the 79th Rifle Corps of the Soviet Third Shock Army and is frequently referred to as 79th SMERSH). SMERSH (short for SMERt SHpionam (СМЕРть Шпионам), or Death to Spies) was the name of counterintelligence departments in the Soviet Union formed during the Great Patriotic War, to secure the rear of the active Red Army, on the front to arrest traitors, deserters, spies, and criminal elements. // History The organization was created...

Autopsy

A Red Army photo from May 1945, hoaxed for propaganda purposes in the days immediately after the fall of Berlin. Other prints of this image show the corpse has been posed with a photo of Eva Braun.

An autopsy was performed by this SMERSH unit, led by Chief Forensic Pathologist Dr. Faust Sherovsky. They first identified Hitler using odontological records of removable dental fittings given to Hitler by his dentist Hugo Blaschke. Two of Blaschke's arrested assistants (Fritz Echtmann and Kaethe Hausermann) confirmed the accuracy of the records by first drawing sketches of his bridgework from memory. Hitler or his doppelgangers This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Hitler or his doppelgangers This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... The short forms Red Army and RKKA refer to the Workers and Peasants Red Army, (in Russian: Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия - Raboche-Krestyanskaya Krasnaya Armiya), the armed forces first organized by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918. ... An autopsy, also known as a post-mortem examination or an obduction, is a medical procedure that consists of a thorough examination of a corpse to determine the cause and manner of a persons death and to evaluate any disease or injury that may be present. ... SMERSH (short for SMERt SHpionam (СМЕРть Шпионам), or Death to Spies) was the name of counterintelligence departments in the Soviet Union formed during the Great Patriotic War, to secure the rear of the active Red Army, on the front to arrest traitors, deserters, spies, and criminal elements. // History The organization was created... Forensic odontology (also called Forensic Dentistry) deals with the proper handling, examination and evaluation of dental evidence, which will be then presented in the interest of justice. ...

Sherovsky noted in his initial report that a piece of Hitler's skull cap was missing. The autopsy also led to the discovery of glass fragments in his mouth along with traces of cyanide in both bodies and the official cause of death published by the team was poisoning by cyanide with no mention of a gunshot wound. The findings were released by the USSR on May 16, 1945 and were quickly recognized as lacking by both Soviet and Western authorities. May 16 is the 136th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (137th in leap years). ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ...

Rumours of escape

Allied officials were deluged with a flurry of unsubstantiated reports that Hitler had escaped from Berlin and fled to Argentina, Spain or a moated castle in Westphalia. Although such rumours abated somewhat after the war, the lack of public confirmation of the existence of Hitler's remains caused rumours to circulate and re-appear for several decades, including various myths that he had fled to New Swabia in Antarctica (and even descended into a hollow earth). These rumours, often repeated on websites, usually conflated facts regarding the post-war activities of fugitive ex-Nazi officials (including the ODESSA organisation) with fictional storylines from the many popular books, films and television programs that have been produced on the topic, but no evidence has ever emerged that either Hitler or Braun were alive after April 30, 1945. (help· info), IPA: , is the capital city as well as a state of Germany, and also the countrys largest city. ... The moated manor house of Baddesley Clinton in Warwickshire, England Moats (also known as a Fosse) were deep and wide water-filled trenches, excavated to provide a barrier against attack upon castle ramparts or other fortifications. ... The main gatehouse of Harlech Castle, Wales. ... Westphalia (German: Westfalen) is a region in Germany, centred on the cities of Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen, Münster, Bielefeld, and Osnabrück and included in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony. ... The 1938-1939 expeditions logo New Schwabenland or Neuschwabenland (New Swabia in English) is an area of Antarctica between 20°E and 10°W (overlapping a portion of Queen Maud Land) claimed by Germany between 1939 and 1945. ... The phrase hollow earth refers to the esoteric idea that the planet Earth has a hollow interior, almost always associated with the idea that it has a habitable inner surface. ... The geographical situation of Odessa city and province within Ukraine Odessa (Ukrainian: Одеса, Odesa; Russian: ) is a city in southwestern Ukraine, a major port on the Black Sea, and the administrative centre of the countrys Odessa Oblast. ... April 30 is the 120th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (121st in leap years), with 245 days remaining, as the last day in April. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ...

Later Russian disclosures

A book by Soviet journalist Lev Bezymensky on the SMERSH autopsy report was published in the west in 1968 but was associated with other disinformation attempts and considered untrustworthy. 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Disinformation, in the context of espionage, military intelligence, and propaganda, is the spreading of deliberately false information to mislead an enemy as to ones position or course of action. ...

The KGB/FSB opened their files to the public in 1993, releasing records and statements by former KGB members. Drawing from these, historians reached a general consensus about what happened to the bodies of Hitler and Braun. The KGB emblem and motto: The sword and the shield KGB (transliteration of КГБ) is the Russian-language abbreviation for State Security Committee, (Russian: (help· info); Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti). ... The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (Федера́льная слу́жба безопа́сности Росси́йской Федера́ции or ФСБ, Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii, FSB) is a state security organisation in Russia, the successor to the KGB by way of the FSK (Federalnaya Sluzhba Kontrrazvedki (Федера́льная Слу́жба Контрразве́дки), Federal Counterintelligence Service). ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...

After the autopsy their remains were frequently buried and exhumed by SMERSH during the unit's relocation from Berlin to a new facility at 30-32 Klausnerstrasse in Magdeburg where they (along with the charred remains of propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, his wife Magda and their six children) were permanently buried in an unmarked grave beneath a paved section of the front courtyard and the location was kept highly secret. View of Magdeburg with the cathedral, from the tower of the Johanniskirche Magdeburgs center has numerous Stalinist neo-classicist buildings Interior of the Cathedral of Magdeburg, looking towards the Grave of Otto I. The cathedrals twin spires, seen from the courtyard Unser Lieben Frauen Monastery Magdeburg, the capital...

By 1970 the SMERSH facility (now controlled by the KGB) was scheduled to be handed over to the East German government. Keen to destroy any possibility Hitler's burial site might become a Neo-Nazi shrine, KGB director Yuri Andropov authorised a special operation to destroy the remains. On April 4, 1970 a Soviet KGB team (who had been given detailed burial charts) exhumed the bodies and thoroughly burned them before dumping the ashes in the Elbe river. 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... National motto: none Official languages German Capital East Berlin Largest city East Berlin Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 106th 108,333 km² Negligible Creation -Abolition 7 October 1949 3 October 1990 Currency East German mark Time zone  â€“ in summer CET (UTC+1) CEST (UTC+2) National anthem Auferstanden aus Ruinen Internet... The terms Neo-Nazism and Neo-Fascism refer to any social or political movement to revive Nazism or Fascism, respectively, and postdates the Second World War. ... Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov (Ю́рий Влади́мирович Андро́пов), (June 2 (O.S.) = June 15 (N.S.), 1914 – February 9, 1984) was a Soviet politician and General Secretary of the CPSU from November 12, 1982 until his death just sixteen months later. ... April 4 is the 94th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (95th in leap years). ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... The Elbe River (Czech Labe (help· info), Sorbian/Lusatian Łobjo, German Elbe) is one of the major waterways of Central Europe. ...

Skull and jaw fragments

Hitler skull fragment in the Moscow Archive

A skull fragment had also been recovered from Hitler's sitting room in the Führerbunker and it was found to contain a single bullet hole, most likely from a 7.65mm round. The skull fragment was taken to Moscow in 1946 along with the jaw section which had been used for the dental identification, both eventually finding their way to the Moscow Archives. Decades later they were located in a basement of the Moscow Archives, and the skull fragment was publicly displayed as part of an exhibition called The Agony of the Third Reich. Hitler skull from Moscow Archive This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Hitler skull from Moscow Archive This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ...

By 2003 the skull fragment was being kept in a plastic floppy disk case. That year, American forensic scientist Mark Benecke was given access to the skull and jaw fragments along with some surviving teeth and two metal dental bridges. He positively identified the upper bridge from a 1944 X-ray of Hitler's head which had been obtained by US and British intelligence operatives after the war. "You could challenge the validity of the skull," he said, "but the teeth are absolutely conclusive. They are definitely Hitler's." A floppy disk is a data storage device that is composed of a ring of thin, flexible (i. ...

When asked if he would have liked to do a DNA test, Benecke replied, "Absolutely. It was only that I didn't have a sterile drill with me at the time that I didn't take a sample. I would like to do a DNA match but, otherwise, the story is over for me. There is no secret left." [1] DNA testing would not be possible without a specimen for comparison, for which the cooperation of living relatives of Hitler would be needed. None of them show any evidence of wanting to participate in such a test. (Gardner, 2001).

Pistol or cyanide?

Journalist James O'Donnell, after extensive interviews with inhabitants of the bunker (including those unavailable for years due to Soviet detention), noted a consensus that shortly before his death, Hitler spoke with another doctor, Werner Haase, who gave him instructions on how to make the suicide successful, which included recommending a combination of cyanide and a gunshot to the temple. However, Haase died in Soviet captivity and O'Donnell relied on witness accounts.

Moreover, O'Donnell learned that many of the witnesses who claimed to have heard a gunshot actually did not (the doors to the study were considered thick enough to muffle such a sound). Some witnesses told O'Donnell that during interrogations Allied officers encouraged them to confirm they heard a shot.

It's often asserted attempts have been made to portray a more "honorable soldier's death" for Hitler by way of single gunshot, as opposed to a "coward's suicide" by poison. O'Donnell noted that such claims are based on ideology, not fact, and remarked such claimants should learn how to "give the devil his due." An ideology is an organized collection of ideas. ...

In 2005, Erna Flegel, who served as a nurse in the bunker, said Hitler was so paranoid he suspected spies had filled his cyanide capsules with something nontoxic and may explain why he killed his dog Blondi while testing a capsule. Moreover, the capsules had been obtained through Heinrich Himmler, who Hitler believed had betrayed him [2]. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Erna Flegel (born in 1913) was a German nurse. ... A nurse is a health care professional who is engaged in the practice of nursing. ... Blondi (d. ... (help· info) (October 7, 1900 – May 23, 1945) was the commander of the German Schutzstaffel (SS) and one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany. ...

Flegel was also quoted that year as saying, "There were a few people who then heard it [the shot] and there were others who didn't. The Führer suddenly wasn't there any more. I knew that the Führer was dead. Suddenly there were more doctors in the bunker, including Professor Haase. I didn't see Hitler's body. It was taken up to the garden. The Führer had such an authority that when he was there you knew it. It felt so extraordinary."

Could he have done both?

Another point of speculation has been whether Hitler was physically capable of shooting himself in the moments following biting a glass ampule of cyanide, since rapid and violent convulsions often occur during cyanide poisoning.

One theory suggests Hitler died after ingesting cyanide and his body was then shot by someone else to either make sure he was dead or make it appear the Führer had died a soldier's suicide by gunshot. Eva Braun is sometimes mentioned as the shooter. She had trained with a pistol during the preceding weeks (as did many German women in response to stories of widespread rape and murder by advancing Red Army soldiers) and was presumably one of the only people Hitler trusted at the end of his life. Other candidates would include Heinz Linge (Hitler's valet) and Martin Bormann, who were the first to enter the study. Most historians discount these possibilities. A Browning 9 millimeter semiautomatic pistol Ordnance pistol of the French Navy, 19th century A pistol or handgun is a usually small firearm that can be used with one hand. ... Hitler and Bormann in the early 1940s Martin Bormann (June 17, 1900 – May 2, 1945?) was a prominent German National Socialist (Nazi) official who became head of the Party Chancellery (Parteikanzlei) and Private Secretary to Adolf Hitler, gaining his trust and deriving immense power within the Third Reich by controlling...

O'Donnell also noted that Walter Hewel, like Hitler, was given instructions on the same dual suicide method (along with the same type of cyanide capsule). Hewel committed suicide on May 2 by a combination of the capsule and a gunshot wound to the head. O'Donnell cited Hewel's death as a cruel positive proof such a suicide was possible. Walter Hewel (1904 - May 2, 1945) was a high-ranking German ambassador in the Nazi Government. ...

Based on witness reports of a loud gunshot and Linge's account of finding the bodies, Hitler shot himself in the right temple after Braun took cyanide. There is significant evidence that to ensure self-destruction, Hitler bit into a glass ampule of cyanide as he pulled the trigger of his personal Walther PPK pistol. Walther PPK Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Walther PPK The Walther PP is a pistol made in Germany, France and the United States (PPK only) at various times. ...

Trivia

• In July 1943 Pierre J. Huss, chief correspondent in Berlin for the International News Service who had interviewed Hitler several times during the 1930s and 1940s, filed a report which concluded, "But Hitler, unlike Il Duce, probably will ride the storm to the bitter end, wildly spilling oceans of blood in occupied countries and even in the Reich itself, and kill himself rather than follow Mussolini's example and resign." That same year a classified psychological report by the Office of Strategic Services came to the same conclusion.

• During Hitler's last lunch of spaghetti with a "light sauce," according to the secretaries who ate with him, conversation revolved around dog breeding and how lipstick was made from sewer grease. Both were topics Hitler had brought up on numerous past mealtime occasions.

• There was an anecdote, likely an urban legend, that the fragment of Hitler's skull from the Archives was presented as a gift to Stalin, who then used it as an ashtray. This story may have emerged from a more prosaic tale however, since the fragments were kept for a time in a wooden cigar box by a member of 79th SMERSH.

• When she passed away on October 31, 2003, Kamato Hongo was the only living person with a birthdate earlier than Adolf Hitler. With the death of Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan on May 29, 2004, Maria Capovilla was the only person born in the 1880s known to still be alive. Since she was five months younger than Hitler, if he were alive somewhere, he would have been the oldest living person in the world.

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See also

• Führerbunker
• List of suicides

This is a reconstruction of the layout of the Führerbunker. ... See also: deaths by accidental drug overdose, people by cause of death This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness. ...

Documentaries

• Adolf Hitler's Last Days, from the BBC series "Secrets of World War II" tells (obviously) the story about Hitler's last days.
• The World at War (1974) is a famous British series which contains much information about Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, including an interview with his secretary, Traudl Junge about the very end in the bunker.

The World at War was a 1974 television documentary series on the Second World War, the events that led up to it, and those that followed in its wake. ... Traudl Junge just after World War Two. ...

Dramatizations

• Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973) is a movie depicting the days leading up to Adolf Hitler's death, starring Sir Alec Guinness.
• The Bunker (1978) by James O'Donnell, describing the last days in the Führerbunker from 1945-01-17 to 1945-05-02. Made into the TV movie The Bunker (1981), starring Anthony Hopkins.
• Der Untergang (2004) is a German movie about the last days of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. It also features interviews with Traudl Junge.

Hitler: The Last Ten Days is a 1973 film depicting the days leading up to Adolf Hitlers suicide. ... The Bunker is a book, by American journalist James ODonnell, detailing the final days of Adolf Hitler and his entourage in 1945. ... This is a reconstruction of the layout of the Führerbunker. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... January 17 is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (123rd in leap years). ... The Bunker is a book, by American journalist James ODonnell, detailing the final days of Adolf Hitler and his entourage in 1945. ... Der Untergang (2004; international English title Downfall) is a German film depicting the final days of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany in 1945. ... Traudl Junge just after World War Two. ...

Bibliography

• The Last Days of Hitler, by Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper 1947. University Of Chicago Press; Reprint (1992). ISBN 0226812243
• Inside Hitler's Bunker : The Last Days of the Third Reich by Joachim Fest, ISBN 0374135770

Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton (January 15, 1914 - January 26, 2003) was a notable historian of early modern Britain and Nazi Germany. ... Joachim C. Fest (born December 8, 1926 in Berlin) is a German journalist and author, best known in English-speaking countries for his biography of Adolf Hitler. ...

References

• O'Donnell, James - The Bunker. - New York: Da Capo Press; Reprint(2001). - ISBN 0306809583.
• Waite, Robert G.L. - The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler. - New York: First DaCapo Press Edition, 1993 (orig. pub. 1977). - ISBN 0306805146.
• Ada Petrova - The Death of Hitler: The Full Story With New Evidence from Secret Russian Archives - W W Norton & Co Inc (May 1, 1995) - ISBN 0393039145
• Gardner, Dave - The Last of the Hitlers, BMM, Worcester, UK, 2001. ISBN 0954154401
• Beevor, Antony, Berlin - The Downfall 1945, Penguin Books, 2004
• Ryan, Cornelius, The Last Battle, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1966
• After the Battle, No.61 Special Edition, Battle of Britain International Ltd, 1988, London
• Hansig, Ron, T. HITLER'S ESCAPE, Athena Press, London, ISBN1 932077 82 0.

The Bunker is a book, by American journalist James ODonnell, detailing the final days of Adolf Hitler and his entourage in 1945. ... Antony Beevor (born on December 14, 1946) is a British historian, educated at Winchester College and Sandhurst. ... Cornelius Ryan (5 June 1920 – 23 November 1974) was an Irish-American journalist and author mainly known for his writings on popular military history, especially World War II. His two best-known books are The Longest Day (1959), which tells the story of the D-Day (day one of the...

External links

• The Death of Hitler
• Der Untergang at The Internet Movie Database
• Article on the KGB destruction of Hitler's remains (link broken)
• BBC article on the public display of Hitler's skull fragment
• Washington Post article on the death of Hitler
• The World was Lied to about Hitler's Death (note: Revisionist)
• The OMEGA File - HITLER ESCAPED! (note: Revisionist)

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