The official version says that Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany, committed suicide in besieged Berlin on April 30, 1945, a few days before the end of the war. Subsequently, a number of researchers, however, expressed doubts about the events described by eyewitnesses, but new facts did not find reliable confirmation.
The last days of the Fuhrer
Here is a chronicle of events preceding the death of Adolf Hitler. In the last days of April 1945, the shock units of the Soviet troops completed the operation to defeat Nazi Germany. The plans of the Führer collapsed, which led him to despair. A few days before his death, Hitler took refuge in an underground bunker located in the immediate vicinity of the Reich’s office, desperate and anxious for new news from the battlefields. Immediately there were his girlfriend Eva Braun and a number of senior German officials.
Hitler gave the impression of an immensely tired person with a completely frustrated consciousness, who had lost interest in life. He often shouted at his subordinates, rushed about the room and showed all the signs of a person with a decaying personality, close to insanity. He no longer resembled the confident leader of the nation that the German people used to see Hitler in earlier times.
The day before his death, Hitler held an official wedding ceremony with Eva Brown, which ended with a modest feast. After the first and last family triumph in his life, the Führer retired to his office to make a will.
Apparently, by this time the leader of Nazi Germany made the final decision to die.
How Hitler died
April 30 Adolf Hitler said goodbye to the highest representatives of the Reich and other people close to him. After the farewell ceremony, everyone left the room, leaving the corridor. Hitler and Eva Braun were left alone. The Führer’s personal valet wrote in his testimony that Hitler and his girlfriend committed suicide at half-past four, shooting almost at the same time. The valet who came in after the shots saw the leader of the nation sitting on the couch; blood flowed from his temple. Eva Brown's body was located in another corner of the room.
Many researchers are convinced that just before the shot Hitler took an ampoule with potassium cyanide.
Martin Bormann, Hitler’s closest assistant and associate, ordered the bodies of the victims to be wrapped in blankets, transferred to the courtyard, doused with gasoline and burned in a crater from an exploding shell. The corpses, which did not have time to burn to the end, were buried in the ground right there, in the courtyard of the imperial chancellery. The remains of the Fuhrer and Eva Braun were subsequently discovered by Soviet soldiers, after which a thorough examination was carried out. The study was conducted by experienced forensic experts, so there is no reason to doubt the authenticity of the remains.
But the story of the remains of the leader of fascist Germany did not end there. Hitler’s body was reburied several times. After the war, some eyewitnesses to the death of the German leader refused their testimonies. There were new witnesses who were previously silent. The history of the death of the Fuhrer began to acquire fantastic details, which could well be fiction.
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