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<\/a>The Stars and Stripes, the official US Army magazine, announces Hitler’s death [Public domain]<\/p><\/div>On the afternoon of 30 April 1945, Adolf Hitler finished lunch in his bunker and, after sending everyone except Eva Braun away, he shot himself; Eva took cyanide.<\/p>\n
Hitler’s Third Reich and the program he had laid out in Mein Kampf<\/em> was over.<\/p>\n Munich had fallen that day, so had Turin in northern Italy. Mussolini was already dead, having been shot by partisans a few days earlier. By evening, the Soviet flag would be flying from the roof of the burned-out Reichstag.<\/p>\n Joseph Goebbels was quick to follow the example of his Fuehrer. Goebbels\u00a0requested the SS to poison his\u00a0young children and afterwards to shoot his wife and himself.<\/p>\n First edition of Mein Kampf, July 1925 [Public domain]<\/p><\/div>Martin Bormann, the other high-ranking Nazi who had been with Hitler until the final moments, was bent on escape.<\/p>\n On 2 May, German forces in Berlin surrendered to Marshal Zhukov.<\/p>\n Wernher von Braun, one of the leading rocket scientists from the German Army Research Centre at Peenem\u00fcnde<\/a>, surrendered to American forces in southern Germany. He was recruited and transported to the USA to work in America’s rocket program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the afternoon of 30 April 1945, Adolf Hitler finished lunch in his bunker and, after sending everyone except Eva Braun away, he shot himself; Eva took cyanide. Hitler’s Third Reich and the program he had laid out in Mein … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/WMeinKampf-150x113.jpg\")
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