With Germany lying in ruins after six devastating years of war, and with defeat imminent, Hitler decided to take his own life. Early on the morning on April 29, 1945, in a civil ceremony in his bunker, Hitler married his mistress of many years, Eva Braun. The next day at a little after 3:30 p.m., they bit into thin glass vials of cyanide. As he did so, Hitler also shot himself in the head with a 7.65 mm Walther pistol. The handful of remaining Nazi faithfuls trooped uneasily into his underground study, surveyed his still-warm remains-slouched on a couch, with blood trickling from the sagging lower jaw, and a gunshot wound in the right temple-and sniffed the bitter-almonds smell hanging in the air. Wrapped in a gray army blanket, he was carried up to the shell-blasted Chancellery garden. Gasoline was slopped over him in a reeking crater and ignited while his staff hurriedly saluted and backed down into the shelter.
2006-08-10 20:41:48
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answered by j@mE$ 6
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He had no kids. He shot his dogs. He and Eva got married. Drank some poison then he shot her. Some say he wimped out and a general shot him. That or Hitler offed himself. The bodies were then doused with gasoline and all were lit.
A kgb higher up had his presumed skull on his desk for many years.
Hes not alive. Hed be like 117 or 116 now.
2006-08-10 20:44:21
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answered by Lupin IV 6
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Hitler committed suicide in the Führerbunker on April 30, 1945 by means of a self-delivered shot to the head (it is likely he simultaneously bit into a cyanide ampoule). Hitler's body and that of Eva Braun (his long-term mistress whom he had married the day before) were put in a bomb crater, partially burned with gasoline by Führerbunker aides and hastily buried in the Chancellory garden.
When Russian forces reached the Chancellory they found his body and an autopsy was performed using dental records (and German dental assistants who were familiar with them) to confirm the identification. To avoid any possibility of creating a potential shrine the remains of Hitler and Braun were repeatedly moved, then secretly buried by SMERSH at their new headquarters in Magdeburg. In April 1970, when the facility was about to be turned over to the East German government, the remains were reportedly exhumed, thoroughly cremated, and the ashes finally dumped unceremoniously into the Elbe.
2006-08-10 20:45:02
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answered by ira a 4
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Avoid any and all conspiracy theories. Hitler shot himself in his bunker in Berlin. His then wife (they'd married a week before) poisoned herself. On his own orders, his body was burned so that it could not be taken by the advancing Soviet army. This was 30 April 1945.
2006-08-10 20:44:39
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answered by elical 1
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He swallowed cyanide and then shot himself to make sure. There was some confusion about his body due to Stalin's paranoia and Soviet secrecy, but his skull is in the former KGB archive to this day as his body was only partially burned.
2006-08-10 20:40:30
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answered by michinoku2001 7
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He committed suicide along with Eva Braun in the Berlin bunker as the Russian army came into Berlin.
2006-08-10 20:44:26
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answered by Fred R 2
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According to theory he drank poison then shot himself. Then his soldiers burned his body. Watch the movie Downfall it's good.
2006-08-10 20:45:32
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answered by Anonymous
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He was cornered by the US and other countries fighting in the war and he had nope of escaping.So instead of surendering and get the risk of prison and death penalty.He shot himself in the head.His body was burned,yes.
2006-08-10 20:43:35
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answered by Anonymous
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Er, no...Hitler took his family into a bunker. He poisoned his kids, shot his wife, and then shot himself.
I think he took some of his most trusted officials in with him, along with their families, as well, who all did the same thing he did with their families and their own lives.
2006-08-10 20:40:55
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answered by Eri 3
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He lives
2006-08-10 20:44:16
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answered by Anonymous
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