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Hitler's Death: Bodies. Bunkers. Conspiracies.
On 30 April 1945, as the Red Army closed in on Berlin, Adolf Hitler died in his bunker beneath the Reich Chancellery.
In this On This Day episode, Roger Moorhouse and Antonia Senior reconstruct Hitler’s final hours—his physical decline, the collapse of Nazi Germany, and the chillingly mundane routine of his last day. From his marriage to Eva Braun to the burning of their bodies in the Chancellery garden, this is the story of how the Third Reich ended at its source.
But that’s only half the story.
We also dig into the enduring conspiracy theories:
Did Hitler really die in Berlin? Why did…
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