Английская Википедия:Death of Adolf Hitler
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:For multi Шаблон:Good article Шаблон:Pp-semi Шаблон:EngvarB Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox event Adolf Hitler, chancellor and dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945, died by suicide via a gunshot to the head on 30 April 1945 in the Шаблон:Lang in BerlinШаблон:Efn after it became clear that Germany would lose the Battle of Berlin, which led to the end of World War II in Europe. Eva Braun, his wife of one day, also died by suicide via cyanide poisoning.Шаблон:Efn In accordance with Hitler's prior written and verbal instructions, that afternoon their remains were carried up the stairs and through the bunker's emergency exit to the Reich Chancellery garden, where they were doused in petrol and burned.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The news of Hitler's death was announced on German radio the next day, 1 May.Шаблон:Sfn
Eyewitnesses who saw Hitler's body immediately after his suicide testified that he died from a self-inflicted gunshot, which has been established to have been a shot to the temple.Шаблон:EfnШаблон:EfnШаблон:Efn Otto Günsche, Hitler's personal adjutant, who handled both bodies, testified that while Braun's smelled strongly of burnt almondsШаблон:Sndan indication of cyanide poisoningШаблон:Sndthere was no such odour about Hitler's body, which smelled of gunpowder.Шаблон:Sfn Dental remains extracted from the soil in the garden were matched with Hitler's dental records in May 1945.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Efn The dental remains were later confirmed as being Hitler's.
The Soviet Union restricted the release of information and released many conflicting reports about Hitler's death. Historians have largely rejected these as part of a deliberate disinformation campaign by Joseph Stalin to sow confusion regarding Hitler's death,Шаблон:SfnШаблон:EfnШаблон:EfnШаблон:Efn or have attempted to reconcile them.Шаблон:Efn Soviet records allege that the burnt remains of Hitler and Braun were recovered,Шаблон:EfnШаблон:Efn despite eyewitness accounts that they were almost completely reduced to ashes. In June 1945, the Soviets began seeding two contradictory narratives: that Hitler died by taking cyanideШаблон:Efn and that he had survived and fled to another country.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Following extensive review, West Germany issued a death certificate in 1956.Шаблон:Sfn Conspiracy theories about Hitler's death continue to attract interest.Шаблон:TOC limit
Preceding events
By early 1945, Nazi Germany was on the verge of total military collapse. Poland had fallen to the advancing Soviet Red Army, which was preparing to cross the Oder between Küstrin and Frankfurt-an-der-Oder with the objective of capturing Berlin Шаблон:Convert to the west.Шаблон:Sfn German forces had recently lost to the Allies in the Ardennes Offensive, with British and Canadian forces crossing the Rhine into the German industrial heartland of the Ruhr.Шаблон:Sfn US forces in the south had captured Lorraine and were advancing towards Mainz, Mannheim, and the Rhine.Шаблон:Sfn German forces in Italy were withdrawing north, as they were pressed by US and Commonwealth forces as part of the Spring Offensive to advance across the Po and into the foothills of the Alps.Шаблон:Sfn
Hitler retreated to the Шаблон:Lang in Berlin on 16 January 1945. It was clear to the Nazi leadership that the battle for Berlin would be the final battle of the war in Europe.Шаблон:Sfn Some 325,000 soldiers of Germany's Army Group B were surrounded and captured in the Ruhr Pocket on 18 April, leaving the path open for US forces to reach Berlin. By 11 April, the Americans crossed the Elbe, Шаблон:Convert to the west of the city.Шаблон:Sfn On 16 April, Soviet forces to the east crossed the Oder and commenced the battle for the Seelow Heights, the last major defensive line protecting Berlin on that side.Шаблон:Sfn By 19 April, the Germans were in full retreat from the Seelow Heights, leaving no front line. Berlin was bombarded by Soviet artillery for the first time on 20 April, Hitler's birthday. By the evening of 21 April, Red Army tanks reached the outskirts of the city.Шаблон:Sfn
On 21 April, Hitler ordered a special detachment commanded by SS-Obergruppenführer Felix Steiner to counterattack the Soviets. At the next day's afternoon situation conference, Hitler suffered a nervous collapse when he was informed that these orders had not been obeyed.Шаблон:Sfn He launched into a tirade against his generals, calling them treacherous and incompetent, culminating in a declarationШаблон:Sndfor the first timeШаблон:Sndthat the war was lost. Hitler announced that he would stay in Berlin until the end and then shoot himself.Шаблон:Sfn Later that day, he asked SS physician Werner Haase about the most reliable method of suicide. Haase suggested the "pistol-and-poison method" of combining a dose of cyanide with a gunshot to the head.Шаблон:Sfn Luftwaffe chief Шаблон:Lang Hermann Göring learned about Hitler's admission of defeat and declaration of his intended suicide and sent a telegram to Hitler, asking for permission to take over the leadership of the Reich in accordance with Hitler's 1941 decree naming him as his successor.Шаблон:Sfn Hitler's secretary Martin Bormann convinced Hitler that the letter from Göring was an attempt to overthrow the dictator.Шаблон:Sfn In response, Hitler informed Göring that he would be executed unless he resigned all of his posts. Later that day, he sacked Göring from all of his offices and ordered his arrest.Шаблон:Sfn Hitler also ordered his chief aide and adjutant, Julius Schaub, to destroy safeguarded documents and his personal train.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
By 27 April, Berlin's communication had been all but cut off from the rest of Germany. Secure radio contact with defending units had been lost; the command staff in the Шаблон:Lang had to depend on telephone lines for passing instructions and orders, and on public radio for news and information.Шаблон:Sfn On 28 April, Hitler received a BBC report originating from Reuters: it stated that Шаблон:Lang Heinrich Himmler had offered to surrender to the Western Allies. The offer was declined. Himmler had implied to the Allies that he had the authority to negotiate a surrender, which Hitler considered to be treason. That afternoon, Hitler's anger and bitterness escalated into a rage against Himmler.Шаблон:Sfn He ordered Himmler's arrest and had SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein (Himmler's SS representative at Hitler's headquarters) shot for desertion.Шаблон:Sfn
By this time, the Red Army had advanced to the Potsdamer Platz, roughly a kilometre away from the bunker, and all indications were that they were preparing to storm the Reich Chancellery. This report and Himmler's treachery prompted Hitler to make the last decisions of his life.Шаблон:Sfn Shortly after midnight on 29 April,Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn he married Eva Braun in a small civil ceremony in a map room within the Шаблон:Lang. The two then hosted a modest wedding breakfast, after which Hitler took his secretary Traudl Junge to another room and dictated his last will and testament. It left instructions to be carried out immediately following his death, with Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz and Joseph Goebbels assuming Hitler's roles as head of state and chancellor, respectively.Шаблон:Sfn Hitler signed these documents at 04:00 and then went to bed. Some sources say that he dictated the last will and testament immediately before the wedding, but all agree on the timing of the signing.Шаблон:EfnШаблон:Efn
On the afternoon of 29 April, Hitler learned that his ally, Benito Mussolini, had been executed by Italian partisans. The bodies of Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, had been strung up by their heels. The corpses were later cut down and thrown into the gutter, where they were mocked by Italian dissidents. These events may have strengthened Hitler's resolve not to allow himself or his wife to be made a "spectacle" of, as he had earlier recorded in his testament.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Efn Hitler had been given some capsules of prussic acid by Himmler through SS physician Ludwig Stumpfegger, and initially had intended to use them for his suicide. When he received the news that Himmler had contacted the Allies through a Swedish diplomat to arrange for an end to the war, Hitler was outraged. With this betrayal in his mind, Hitler began to doubt whether the ampoules would be effective. He ordered Haase to test one on his dog Blondi. The capsule workedШаблон:Sndthe dog died instantly.Шаблон:Sfn
Suicide
Hitler and Braun lived together as husband and wife in the bunker for less than 40 hours. By 01:00 on 30 April, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel had reported that all of the forces on which Hitler had been depending to rescue Berlin had either been encircled or forced onto the defensive.Шаблон:Sfn At around 02:30, Hitler appeared in the corridor where about twenty people, mostly women, were assembled to give their farewells. He went down the line, shaking hands and speaking with each of them, before retiring to his quarters.Шаблон:Sfn Late in the morning, with the Soviets less than Шаблон:Convert from the Führerbunker, Hitler had a meeting with General Helmuth Weidling, the commander of the Berlin Defence Area. Weidling told Hitler that the garrison would probably run out of ammunition that night, and that the fighting in Berlin would inevitably come to an end within the next 24 hours.Шаблон:Sfn Weidling asked for permission for a break-out; this was a request he had unsuccessfully made before. Hitler did not answer, and Weidling went back to his headquarters in the Bendlerblock. At about 13:00, he received Hitler's permission to attempt a break-out that night.Шаблон:Sfn Hitler, two secretaries, and his personal cook then had lunch, after which Hitler and Braun said goodbye to members of the bunker staff and fellow occupants, including Bormann, Goebbels, the secretaries, and several military officers. At around 14:30 Adolf and Eva Hitler went into his personal study.Шаблон:Sfn Hitler's adjutant SS-Sturmbannführer Otto Günsche stood guard outside the study door.Шаблон:Sfn
After some time, Hitler's valet, Heinz Linge, entered the antechamber to Hitler's quarters, where he discovered the door closed and could smell gunpowder smoke. Linge went back out to the corridor where Bormann was standing, and the two then entered the study together.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Linge later stated that while in the room he immediately noted a scent of burnt almonds, which is a common observation in the presence of hydrogen cyanide.Шаблон:Sfn Linge saw the bodies of Hitler and Braun sitting upright on the sofa, with Hitler to Braun's right. His head was canted to his right.Шаблон:Sfn Günsche entered the study shortly afterwards. He described Braun's corpse as being on Hitler's left, with her legs drawn up and slumped away from him. Günsche stated that Hitler "sat... sunken over, with blood dripping out of his right temple. He had shot himself with his own pistol, a Walther PPK 7.65."Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The gun lay at his feet.Шаблон:Sfn Hitler's dripping blood had made a large stain on the right arm of the sofa and was pooling on the rug.Шаблон:Sfn According to Linge, Braun's body had no visible wounds, and her face showed how she had diedШаблон:Sndfrom cyanide poisoning.Шаблон:Efn Günsche and SS-Шаблон:Lang Wilhelm Mohnke stated "unequivocally" that all outsiders and those performing duties and work in the bunker "did not have any access" to Hitler's private living quarters during the time of death (between 15:00 and 16:00).Шаблон:Sfn
Günsche left the study and announced that Hitler was dead to a group in the briefing room, which included Goebbels and Generals Hans Krebs and Wilhelm Burgdorf.Шаблон:Sfn These three, in addition to others including Hitler Youth leader Artur Axmann, viewed the bodies.Шаблон:Sfn Linge and another man rolled up Hitler's body in a rug,Шаблон:Sfn and then, in accordance with Hitler's prior written and verbal instructions, his and Braun's bodies were carried up the stairs and through the bunker's emergency exit to the garden behind the Reich Chancellery, where they were to be burned with petrol.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Although Hitler's corpse was partially covered by the rug, numerous witnesses testified to recognising him, as the top of his head was not covered, nor were his lower legs and feet.Шаблон:Sfn
The bunker telephone operator SS-Шаблон:Lang Rochus Misch reported Hitler's death to Шаблон:Lang (Führer Escort Command) chief Franz Schädle and returned to the switchboard, later recalling someone shouting that Hitler's body was being burned.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn After the first attempts to ignite the petrol did not work, Linge went back inside the bunker and returned with a thick roll of papers. Bormann lit the papers and threw them onto the bodies. As the two corpses caught fire, a group including Bormann, Günsche, Linge, Goebbels, Erich Kempka, Peter Högl, Ewald Lindloff, and Hans Reisser raised their arms in salute as they stood just inside the bunker doorway.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
At around 16:15, Linge ordered SS-Шаблон:Lang Heinz Krüger and SS-Шаблон:Lang Werner Schwiedel to roll up the rug in Hitler's study to burn it. Schwiedel later stated that upon entering the study, he saw a pool of blood the size of a "large dinner plate" by the arm-rest of the sofa. Noticing a spent cartridge case, he bent down and picked it up from where it lay on the rug about Шаблон:Convert from a 7.65 pistol.Шаблон:Sfn The two men removed the blood-stained rug and carried it up the stairs and outside to the Chancellery garden, where it was placed on the ground and burned.Шаблон:Sfn
The Red Army shelled the area in and around the Reich Chancellery on and off during the afternoon. SS guards brought over additional cans of petrol to further burn the corpses. Although the corpses were being burned in the open, where the distribution of heat varies (as opposed to in a crematorium), according to eyewitnesses, the copious amount of fuel applied from about 16:00 to 18:30 reduced the remains to something between charred bones and piles of ashes which fell apart to the touch.Шаблон:Sfn At approximately 18:30, Lindloff (and perhaps Reisser) covered up the ashen remains in a shallow bomb crater.Шаблон:Sfn The shelling and a fire from napalm incendiary bombs continued until 2 May. During this period it was difficult to spend any time in the garden because of the continuous shelling.Шаблон:Sfn
Aftermath
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Krebs met Soviet general Vasily Chuikov just prior to 04:00 on 1 May, giving him the news of Hitler's death, while attempting to negotiate a ceasefire and open "peace negotiations".Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Joseph Stalin was informed of Hitler's suicide around 04:05 Berlin time, thirteen hours after the event.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn He demanded unconditional surrender, which Krebs lacked authorisation to give.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Stalin wanted confirmation that Hitler was dead and ordered the Red Army's counterespionage unit, SMERSH, to find his corpse.Шаблон:Sfn
The first inkling to the outside world that Hitler was dead came from the Germans themselves. On the night of 1 May, the Шаблон:Lang radio station interrupted their normal program to announce that Hitler had died that afternoon,Шаблон:Efn and introduced his successor, Dönitz.Шаблон:Sfn Dönitz called upon the German people to mourn their Führer, whom he stated had died a hero defending the capital of the Reich.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Hoping to save the army and the nation by negotiating a partial surrender to the British and Americans, Dönitz authorised a fighting withdrawal to the west. His tactic was somewhat successful: it enabled about 1.8 million German soldiers to avoid capture by the Soviets, but came at a high cost in bloodshed, as troops continued to fight until 8 May.Шаблон:Sfn
In the early morning hours of 2 May, the Soviets captured the Reich Chancellery.Шаблон:Sfn Inside the Шаблон:Lang, Krebs and Burgdorf shot themselves in the head.Шаблон:Sfn In early May, Hitler's and Braun's dental remains were extracted from the soil.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Efn Stalin was wary of believing Hitler was dead and restricted the release of information to the public.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn By 11 May, dental assistant Käthe Heusermann and dental technician Fritz Echtmann, both of whom had worked for Hitler's dentist Hugo Blaschke,Шаблон:Efn identified the dental remains of Hitler and Braun.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Efn Both would spend years in Soviet prisons.Шаблон:Sfn An alleged Soviet autopsy of Hitler made public in 1968 was used by forensic odontologists Reidar F. Sognnaes and Ferdinand Strøm to confirm the authenticity of Hitler's dental remains in 1972.Шаблон:Sfn In 2017, French forensic pathologist Philippe Charlier also found the dental remains in the Soviet archives, including teeth on part of a jawbone, to be in "perfect agreement" with X-rays taken of Hitler in 1944.Шаблон:Sfn Charlier used electron microscopy to examine the tartar, which contained only plant fibres, a detail consistent with Hitler's vegetarianism.Шаблон:Sfn A 2018 paper co-authored by Charlier concludes that these remains "cannot be a fake", citing their significant wear.Шаблон:Sfn No gunpowder residue was detected, indicating that Hitler did not die by a gunshot wound through the mouth.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Efn
In early June 1945, SMERSH moved the remains of several individuals, including the Goebbels family (Joseph, Magda, and their children), from Buch to Finow. Hitler and Braun's remains were alleged to have been moved as well, but this is most likely Soviet disinformation. There is no evidence that any bodily remains of Hitler or BraunШаблон:Sndwith the exception of the dental remainsШаблон:Sndwere found by the Soviets.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The remains of the Goebbels family and others were buried in a forest in Brandenburg on 3 June 1945, then exhumed and moved to SMERSH's new facility in Magdeburg, where they were Шаблон:Nowrap in February 1946.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn By 1970, the facility was under KGB control and scheduled to be relinquished to East Germany. Concerned that a known Nazi burial site might become a neo-Nazi shrine, KGB director Yuri Andropov authorised an operation to exhume and destroy the decaying remains. On 4 April 1970, a KGB team thoroughly cremated them and cast the ashes into the Biederitz river, a tributary of the nearby Elbe.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Efn
For politically motivated reasons, the Soviet Union presented various versions of Hitler's fate.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn On 5 June, the Soviets claimed that his body had been examined and that he had died by cyanide poisoning.Шаблон:Sfn At a press conference on 9 June, the Soviets said they had not actually identified the body and that Hitler had likely escaped.Шаблон:Sfn When asked in July 1945 how Hitler had died, Stalin said he was living "in Spain or Argentina".Шаблон:Sfn In November 1945, Dick White, the head of counter-intelligence in the British sector of Berlin, had their agent Hugh Trevor-Roper investigate. His report was expanded and published in 1947 as The Last Days of Hitler.Шаблон:Sfn In the years immediately after the war, the Soviets maintained that Hitler was not dead, but had escaped and was either being shielded by the former Western Allies, was in Francoist Spain, or was somewhere in South America.Шаблон:Sfn
Until the mid-1950s, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and Central Intelligence Agency received many leads claiming that Hitler might still be alive, while giving none of them credence.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The documents remained classified until the early 2010s, as authorised by the 1998 Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The secrecy in which the investigation was shrouded helped fuel conspiracy theories asserting Hitler's survival.Шаблон:Sfn Presiding judge at the Einsatzgruppen trial at Nuremberg Michael Musmanno considered all such claims contrary to the evidence.Шаблон:Sfn
Between 1948 and 1952, amid denazification proceedings in West Germany, legal disputes over Hitler's former property (including The Art of Painting by Johannes Vermeer) were hindered by the lack of an official death declaration. Beginning in 1952, a federal court in Berchtesgaden interviewed 42 witnesses about Hitler's suicideШаблон:Sndbehind closed doors to avoid testimonies influencing one another. After four years of extensive review, Judge Heinrich Stephanus concluded: "There can no longer be the slightest doubt that on 30 April 1945 Adolf Hitler put an end to his life in the Chancellery by his own hand, by means of a shot into his right temple."Шаблон:Sfn A death certificate was issued on 25 February 1956, with an attached report of more than 1,500 pages. An 80-page expert criminological report was prepared in mid-1956, focusing on the "substantial discrepancies" between eyewitness testimonies and serving as a springboard for photographic reconstructions. Ballistic experiments were arranged to determine which interpretation of the fatal gunshot was most likely.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Efn The declaration became public and legally binding by the year's end. Hitler's demise was entered as an assumption of death on the basis that none of the witnesses had seen his body, which German historian Anton JoachimsthalerШаблон:Sndwho cites some of the testimonies in his book on the dictator's deathШаблон:Sndpoints out is incorrect.Шаблон:Sfn The federal court went on to publish a summary of its findings of fact in a 1958 press release.Шаблон:Sfn
Further Soviet investigations and disinformation
On 11 December 1945, the Soviets allowed a limited investigation of the bunker complex grounds by the other Allied powers (Britain, France, and the US). Two representatives from each nation watched several Germans dig up soil down to the concrete roof of the bunker; the excavation included the bomb crater where Hitler's burnt remains had been buried. Found during the dig were two hats identified as Hitler's, an undergarment with Braun's initials, and some reports to Hitler from Goebbels. The Soviet People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) barred further excavation on the accusation that the representatives had removed documents from the Reich Chancellery.Шаблон:Sfn
At the end of 1945, Stalin ordered the NKVD to form a second commission to investigate Hitler's death.Шаблон:Sfn On 30 May 1946, agents of the NKVD's successor, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD), found part of a skull in the crater where Hitler's remains had been exhumed.Шаблон:Sfn The remnant consists of part of the occipital bone and part of both parietal bones.Шаблон:Sfn The nearly complete left parietal bone has a bullet hole, apparently an exit wound.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn This remained uncatalogued until 1975,Шаблон:Sfn and was rediscovered in the Russian State Archives in 1993.Шаблон:Sfn In 2009, University of Connecticut archaeologist and bone specialist Nick Bellantoni examined the skull fragment,Шаблон:Sfn which Soviet officials believed to be Hitler's.Шаблон:Sfn According to Bellantoni, "The bone seemed very thin" for a male,Шаблон:SfnШаблон:EfnШаблон:Efn and "the sutures where the skull plates come together seemed to correspond to someone under 40".Шаблон:Sfn A small piece detached from the skull was DNA-tested, as was blood from Hitler's sofa. The skull was determined to be that of a woman, while the blood was confirmed to belong to a male.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:EfnШаблон:Efn
On 29 December 1949, a secret dossier on Hitler was presented to Stalin, which was based upon the interrogation of Nazis who had been present in the Шаблон:Lang, including Günsche and Linge.Шаблон:Sfn Western historians were allowed into the archives of the former Soviet Union beginning in 1991, but the dossier remained undiscovered for twelve years; in 2005, it was published as The Hitler Book.Шаблон:Sfn
In 1968, Soviet journalist Lev Bezymenski published his book, The Death of Adolf Hitler,Шаблон:Sfn which includes previously unreleased photographs of the dental remains.Шаблон:Sfn The book transcribes a purported Soviet forensic examination led by Faust Shkaravsky, which concluded that Hitler died by cyanide poisoning.Шаблон:Efn Bezymenski further theorised that Hitler requested a Шаблон:Lang to ensure his quick death,Шаблон:Sfn but later admitted that his work included "deliberate lies", such as the manner of Hitler's death.Шаблон:Sfn The book and alleged autopsy have been widely derided by Western historians. Joachimsthaler, in his extensive analysis of the circumstances surrounding Hitler's death, quotes a German pathologist as saying about the purported autopsy: "Bezemensky's report is ridiculous.... Any one of my assistants would have done better... the whole thing is a farce... it is intolerably bad work... the transcript of the post-mortem section of 8 [May] 1945 describes anything but Hitler."Шаблон:Sfn Journalist James P. O'Donnell corrects the book's claim that cyanide acts instantaneously, saying Hitler could have taken poison and still had enough time to shoot himself.Шаблон:Sfn
Legacy
After Hitler's death and the subsequent end of World War II in Europe, Germany was divided into four zones by the victorious Allies, who occupied the country.Шаблон:Sfn This led to the start of the Cold War between the Western Bloc, supported by the US, and the Eastern Bloc, supported by the Soviet Union.Шаблон:Sfn The divide was for a time physically represented by the Berlin Wall, and was eventually followed by Germany's reunification in 1990 and the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1991.
Following Hitler's death, war veteran and future US president John F. Kennedy wrote in his diary that the dictator "had a mystery about him in the way he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him".Шаблон:Sfn Historian Joachim Fest opines that the almost "traceless" death of Hitler allowed him to stay in the public eye, granting him a "bizarre afterlife"; conspiracy theoriesШаблон:Sndrooted in Soviet disinformation alleging his survivalШаблон:Sndbolstered continued doubts and speculation, including outlandish tabloid and journalistic reports published into the late 20th century.Шаблон:Sfn Conspiracy theories about Hitler's death and about the Nazi era as a whole still attract interest, with books, TV shows, and films continuing to be produced on the topic.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Historian Luke Daly-Groves wrote that Hitler's death is not about the death of one man, but carries a greater significance as to the end of the regime and the ideological impact it left behind.Шаблон:Sfn
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Joseph Goebbels, his wife Magda, and their six children. Edited into the photo in the back is Goebbels' stepson, Harald Quandt, the sole family member to survive the war
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Hitler (right) visiting Berlin defenders in early April 1945 with Hermann Göring (centre) and Chief of the OKW Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel (partially hidden)
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Heinz Linge, Hitler's valet, was one of the first people into Hitler's study after the suicides.
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Winston Churchill sitting on a damaged chair from the Шаблон:Lang in July 1945
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The destroyed Шаблон:Lang (1947)
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Eyewitness Artur Axmann providing details of Hitler's death in Nuremberg in 1947
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