Event
Death of Adolf Hitler: Adolf Hitler and his wife of one day, Eva Braun
30 Apr 1945 · 52.51° N, 13.38° E
What the records say
- When
- 30 Apr 1945
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 52.51° N, 13.38° E
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Death of Adolf Hitler.
Summary
Death of Adolf Hitler: Adolf Hitler and his wife of one day, Eva Braun, commit suicide as the Red Army approaches the Führerbunker in Berlin. Großadmiral Karl Dönitz succeeds Hitler as Reichspräsident (President of Germany) and Joseph Goebbels succeeds as Reichskanzler (Chancellor of Germany), in accordance with Hitler's political testament the day earlier.
3 sources record it
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “suicides de Adolf Hitler et Eva Braun dans le bunker de la chancellerie à Berlin, alors que les troupes russes approchent de son bunker”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Политическое завещание Гитлера”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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