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Adolf Hitler, chancellor and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, committed suicide via a gunshot to the head on 30 April 1945 in the Führerbunker in Berlin [a] after it became clear that Germany would lose the Battle of Berlin, which led to the end of World War II in Europe.
Adolf Hitler [a] (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, [c] becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.
On 26 November, mental patient Josef Thomas, who traveled from Elberfeld to Berlin to shoot Hitler and air force commander Hermann Göring, was arrested by the Gestapo after he confessed his intent. [14] 1937: Berlin: Unknown man in SS uniform An unidentified man in SS uniform reportedly tried to kill Hitler during a rally at the Berlin ...
planned and carried out an elaborate assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler: executed, Dachau: Carl Friedrich Goerdeler: 1884–1945: German: Mayor of Leipzig, Putschist political opponent: executed, Berlin-Plötzensee: Willi Graf: 1918–1943: German: White Rose resistance fighter; student German resistance to Nazism: Guillotined, Munich ...
The Death of Adolf Hitler: Unknown Documents from Soviet Archives [a] is a 1968 book by Soviet journalist Lev Bezymenski, who served as an interpreter in the Battle of Berlin. The book gives details of the purported Soviet autopsies of Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun, Joseph and Magda Goebbels, their children, and General Hans Krebs.
Executed by Nazi Germany for involvement in the failed 20 July 1944 attempt to kill Adolf Hitler: Hans Graf von Sponeck: February 12, 1888 July 23, 1944 56 years, 154 days Collaborated with Einsatzgruppe D: Imprisoned by Nazi Germany after disobeying orders, then executed in the aftermath of the failed 20 July 1944 attempt to kill Adolf Hitler
Count Claus von Stauffenberg (German: [ˈklaʊs fɔn ˈʃtaʊfn̩bɛʁk] ⓘ; 15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944) was a German army officer who is best known for his failed attempt on 20 July 1944 to assassinate Adolf Hitler at the Wolf's Lair, part of Operation Valkyrie, a plan that would have seen the arrest of Nazi leadership in the wake of Hitler's death and an early end to World War II.
Carl Wentzel appearing before Judge Roland Freisler at the People's Court, 1944 On 20 July 1944, Adolf Hitler and his top military associates entered the briefing hut of the Wolf's Lair military headquarters, a series of concrete bunkers and shelters located deep in the forest of East Prussia, not far from the location of the World War I Battle of Tannenberg. Soon after, an explosion killed ...