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April 30: On This Day in World History … briefly
During the last three months of his life, Hitler is said to have been close to insanity as he bowed to the inevitability of defeat.
1945: Hitler ends it all
In a scene straight out of Wagner’s epic music-drama ‘The Ring of the Nibelungen’, Adolf Hitler ends his evil reign. After bidding farewell to the few loyal aides remaining with him in his Berlin bunker hideaway, the megalomaniac who reduced his country and much of Europe to ashes, retired to his suite and shot himself.
His former mistress and wife of just 48 hours Eva Braun took a cyanide potassium capsule. In accordance with Hitler’s instructions, both bodies were then burnt.
Most notable historic snippets or facts extracted from the book ‘On This Day’ first published in 1992 by Octopus Publishing Group Ltd, London, as well as additional supplementary information extracted from Wikipedia.
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