Editing Adolf Hitler (section)

==== Death ====
By mid-1945, Hitler was utterly defeated, and, finding no way out of the situation, refusing to surrender or be captured, Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his bunker on April 30<sup>th</sup>, 1945 by shooting himself in the head. His wife of one day, Eva Braun, committed suicide by taking a cyanide pill. He killed his dog before killing himself. Their remains were later cremated. It is believed the Soviets found his body around 1970 and later cremated him and his wife Eva.

The Third Reich would not long survive after the death of the Führer; in his last will and testament, Hitler appointed [[Joseph Goebbels]] as Chancellor of Germany and Grand Admiral [[Karl Dönitz]] as President of Germany. Goebbels and his wife Magda would murder their children and commit suicide themselves one day after Hitler's death, and only one month later, Dönitz and Chief of Staff [[Alfred Jodl]] agreed to sign the instruments of unconditional surrender on May 23, formally putting an end to Hitler's reign of terror and vision of a "thousand-year Reich".

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File:Hitler 20 April 1945.jpg|Last picture of Hitler taken before his death ten days later.
File:Stars & Stripes & Hitler Dead2.jpg|''Stars & Stripes'' paper announcing Hitler's death.
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