April 30, 1945, afternoon, Berlin. Reich Chancellery. The perpetrator of the bloodiest military conflict in human history, Adolf Hitler, has committed suicide.
In the late afternoon, those remaining in the bunker find Hitler shot and slumped to the ground, the sofa next to him soaked in his blood. He has taken his own life by biting cyanide and simultaneously shooting himself in the head.
Eva's lifeless body is also there. She used only cyanide to end her life. Eva flatly refuses to leave the bunker as the Red Army approaches, insisting that she is among the few people left loyal to him. Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were married on 29 April, with Joseph Goebbels and Martin Bormann as witnesses.
Hitler committed suicide just two days before the surrender of Berlin on 2 May 1945, and about a week before the end of World War II on 8 May 1945.
On 1 May 1945, 13 hours after the suicide, Stalin was informed of Hitler's death. General Hans Krebs passed this information on to Soviet General Vasily Chuikov when they met at 4 am on 1 May to negotiate Germany's surrender.
The charred remains were discovered by the Russians. Hitler was identified by his personal dentist from the dentures he had made. After the bodies of the Goebbels family, Adolf and Eva Hitler and General Krebs were identified, they were buried in the area of deployment of the SMERSH counterintelligence department of the 3rd Shock Army - first in the Berlin district of Buch, then in the towns of Finow, Stendal, Rathenow and finally in Magdeburg. The act of February 21, 1946, signed by the chief of SMERSH of the 3rd Shock Army, states: “In the area of the town of Rathenow, the pit with the bodies of Hitler, Braun, the Goebbels and their children and General Krebs was dug up... All the listed bodies are in a semi-decomposed state in wooden crates and in this form were delivered to the town. Magdeburg and buried again in a pit 2 meters deep in the yard of house No. 36 on the street “Westenstrasse”.
On March 13, 1970, the chairman of the KGB of the USSR Yuri Andropov sent a secret letter to the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Leonid Brezhnev with a proposal to destroy the remains, since the military facility was subject to transfer to the German authorities. On March 16, the proposal was accepted, and on March 26, Andropov approved the plan for the top-secret operation “Archive”.
On the night of April 4-5, 1970, an operational group from the KGB special department in the 3rd Army opened the graves. On April 5, the remains were transported to the area of a training ground, ground and burned. The ashes were scattered in a tributary of the Elbe River.
Adolf Hitler is the main culprit for the killing of millions on the battlefields and the sending of 6 million Jews, thousands of Gypsies to the gas chambers and forced sterilization.
The Holocaust is the extermination of approximately six million European Jews during World War II by Nazi Germany. Other ethnic, political and social groups were also persecuted and destroyed by this regime. If non-Jewish victims are also taken into account, the total number of deaths is estimated at nine to eleven million.
The veracity of the evidence about the Holocaust, the number of victims, as well as the allegations of mass executions in gas chambers are disputed by some historians and public figures. In a number of European countries, mainly heavily affected by the ideology of National Socialism, such as Germany, Austria and France, Holocaust denial is considered a crime.