At the end of his life, Hitler was retreated in his bunker underneath the Reich Chancellery building in Berlin. The end of Hitler's regime was apparent, and on April 28th Hitler received a report that Himmler, head of the SS, had been in touch with the Allies regarding a surrender. Hitler decided that suicide was his only option. Around midnight on April 28th, Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun.
By the afternoon of April 29, Soviet ground forces were about a mile away from the Führerbunker. Inside the bunker the last news from the outside world was word of the downfall and death of Mussolini, who had been captured by Italian partisans, executed, and hung upside down and thrown into the gutter.Hitler's body was found sprawled on the sofa, dripping with blood from a gunshot to his right temple. Eva Braun had died from swallowing poison. None of the bunker’s survivors heard the shot that killed Hitler.
This site is considered one of obliteration. There is no trace of evidence that this is the location that Hitler died, and there is nothing representative of the event here for people to remember. The location is now just a parking lot that is in front of residential apartments.
"I myself and my wife - in order to escape the disgrace of deposition or capitulation - choose death"- Adolf Hitler.
References:
"The Death of Adolf Hitler." The Death of Adolf Hitler. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 May 2013.
"The History Place - World War II in Europe Timeline: April 30, 1945 - Death of Hitler." The History Place - World War II in Europe Timeline: April 30, 1945 - Death of Hitler. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 May 2013.
Eva Braun with Adolf Hitler [Photograph]. (2012). Retrieved from The Jerusalem Post website: http://www.jpost.com/Arts-and-Culture/Entertainment/How-did-Hitler-really-die
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