This Day in History: <br />Adolf Hitler Dies <br />by Suicide April 30, 1945 Sitting next to his new wife, <br />Eva Braun, in a small bunker <br />room 55 feet underground of <br />the chancellory building in Berlin, the 56-year-old "Fuhrer" <br />ended his life by consuming a <br />cyanide capsule and simultaneously <br />shooting himself with a pistol. Braun also died <br />by taking cyanide. Per Hitler's orders, their <br />bodies were removed up to <br />the chancellory garden and burned. The Russian army was closing in on <br />Berlin and were less than 24 hours from <br />the bunker where Hitler had been <br />holed up since January of that year. The "1,000 Year Reich" <br />was finished. The 12 years of Nazi rule in <br />Germany were perhaps the most <br />catastrophic of the 20th century.
