As the Red Army occupies Berlin in 1945, Adolf Hitler and his new wife Eva Braun commit suicide in the Fuhrerbunker.
Adolf Hitler, the Austrian-born German politician who led the Nazi Party, served as Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and was the Führer ('Leader') of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945, committed suicide by gunshot on April 30, 1945, in his Führerbunker in Berlin. Eva Braun, his one-day wife, committed suicide with him by drinking cyanide. In accordance with his prior written and verbal orders, their remains were carried up the stairs through the bunker's emergency exit, doused in gasoline, and set ablaze in the Reich Chancellery garden outside the bunker that afternoon.
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