April 30

Hitler Commits Suicide in the Berlin Bunker

Adolf Hitler shot himself in his underground bunker as Soviet forces fought street by street through Berlin above him. Eva Braun, whom he had married the previous day, took cyanide. Their bodies were burned in the Reich Chancellery garden per Hitler's instructions.

Hitler's suicide ended the Nazi regime he had created and set in motion Germany's unconditional surrender seven days later, concluding the most destructive conflict in human history.