Adolf Hitler
ADOLF HITLER Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945, at age 56, in his underground Führerbunker in Berlin. As Soviet forces advanced, Hitler died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, while his wife, Eva Braun, took cyanide. Their bodies were burned in the Reich Chancellery garden to preventAdolf Hitler (1889–1945) was the totalitarian leader of Nazi Germany who initiated World War II and orchestrated the Holocaust. Rising to power as head of the Nazi Party, he became Chancellor in 1933, dismantling German democracy to establish a dictatorship. His aggressive expansionism triggered WWII in 1939, leading to millions of deaths. HITLER WARS Adolf Hitler served in World War I (1914–1918) as a decorated Bavarian army messenger. He was the totalitarian dictator and supreme commander of Nazi Germany during World War II (1939–1945). H...