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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.
[5] This disinformation, propagated by Stalin's government, [6] [7] has been a springboard for various conspiracy theories, despite the official conclusion by Western powers and the consensus of historians that Hitler killed himself on 30 April 1945. [8] [9] [10] It even caused a minor resurgence in Nazism during the Allied occupation of ...
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.
Miller had died when he was 30, and he “only really knew her” in the last two years of her life. What he would later discover in his research, he says, was “a completely different person”.
The Rommel myth, or the Rommel legend, is a phrase used by a number of historians for the common depictions of German Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel as an apolitical, brilliant commander and a victim of Nazi Germany due to his presumed participation in the 20 July plot against Adolf Hitler, which led to Rommel's forced suicide in 1944.
[4] This disinformation, propagated by Stalin's government, [5] [6] has been a springboard for various conspiracy theories, despite the official conclusion by Western powers and the consensus of historians that Hitler killed himself on 30 April 1945. [7] [8] [9] It even caused a minor resurgence in Nazism during the Allied occupation of Germany ...
Hitler poisoned himself." [178] The alleged body was estimated to be about 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) tall (about the length of the box it was delivered in). [179] (Hitler stood 1.65 m or 5 ft 5 in tall.) [180] [181] The report states that "the skin is completely missing" but some traces of muscles remained.
Adolf Hitler (right) and his chauffeur Julius Schreck (left), both wearers of the toothbrush moustache—their only substantial physical similarity (1925). The 1939 book The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler alleges that the Nazi Party used four people as doubles for Hitler, including the author, who claims that the real dictator died in 1938 and that he subsequently took his place. [11]