the fall of Germany and Hitler's Death
Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin.[a][b][c] His wife Eva (née Braun) committed suicide with him by ingesting cyanide.
- The Battle of the Bulge - German counteroffensive
- Russian attack on Berlin (300,000 Soviet troops)
- Hitler commits suicide in Bunker
- Russians and Americans meet