The last picture of Adolf Hitler, 1945

 

This last known photograph of Hitler was taken about two days before his death as he surveyed the devastating bomb damage outside his Berlin bunker entrance. After the Six Years' War, with Germany ruined and defeat imminent, Hitler decided to take his own life.

But before doing so, he married Eva Brown and then wrote his last will and testament. At noon the next day, April 30, 1945, Braun and Hitler entered his living room to end their lives.

When Hitler asked his physician to suggest a reliable method of suicide, his doctor suggested mixing a dose of cyanide with a gunshot to the head.

Later that afternoon the remaining members of the bunker community found Hitler fallen, blood splattered on the arm of the sofa. Eva was sitting at the other end.

Hitler committed suicide by shooting himself in the head and consuming a cyanide capsule. Eva used only cyanide capsules.

On May 2, two days before the surrender of Berlin to the Soviet Union, and on May 8, exactly a week before the end of World War II in Europe, Hitler committed suicide.

On the morning of May 1, thirteen hours after the incident, Stalin received information of Hitler's suicide.

General Hans Krebs gave this information to Soviet General Vasily Chuikov when they met at 04:00 on 1 May as the Germans attempted to negotiate acceptable surrender terms.

Hitler’s Will

Since during the years of struggle I did not think that I could take the responsibility of getting married, I have now decided to take as my wife the girl who will be with me for many years, before the conclusion of my worldly career. After faithful friendship, he, of his own free will, entered the practically besieged city, in order to share his fate with me.

She willingly becomes my wife and goes with me to the mortal world. This will compensate us for what we both have lost through our work in the service of our people.

Whatever I have belongs to the Party – so far as it has any value. Should it no longer exist, for the State; If the kingdom also gets destroyed then there is no need for any other decision of mine.

My photographs, from the collections I have acquired over the years, were never collected for private purposes, but only for the expansion of a gallery in my hometown Linz on the Donau.

It is my heartfelt desire that this will be duly executed. I nominate my most loyal party comrade, Martin Bormann, as my executor. He has been given full legal authority to take all decisions.

To my brothers and sisters, above all to my wife's mother and my loyal colleagues who know him well, he is allowed to extract everything that has sentimental value or that is necessary to maintain a seemingly simple life. Is necessary for. , primarily my old secretary Frau Winter, etc., who have assisted me with their work for many years.

I myself and my wife - to avoid the humiliation of testimony or surrender - choose death.

It is our wish that we be immediately burnt to death at the very place where I have done the greatest part of my daily work during my twelve years of service to my people.

Delivered in Berlin, 29 April 1945, at 4:00 a.m. Signed: A. Hitler Signed as witness: Dr. Joseph Goebbels Martin Bormann Colonel Nikolaus von Below