The End
 
 
After         Adolf Hitler survived the July 1944 plot Eva Braun, the young woman who         had spent most of her life waiting for Hitler, wrote Hitler an emotional         letter, ending: 'From our first meeting I swore to follow you         anywhere - even unto death - I live only for your love.'  Eva         Braun would now be with him forever. She had agreed to share Adolf         Hitler's fate.
With Germany lying in ruins after six devastating         years of war, and with defeat imminent, the Nazi dictator decided to         take his own life. But before doing so, he wanted to thank the one who'd         remained completely loyal to him until the very end. 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 last photo
So         History saw Hitler's prophecy fulfilled, as the handful of remaining         Nazis trooped uneasily into his underground study on April 30, 1945,         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.
There         is footage from May 1945 of Soviet troops searching for Adolf Hitler in         the ruins of the Reich chancellery in Berlin. In an adjacent garden,         near the emergency exit to Hitler's bunker, lie the charred bodies of         the propaganda minister, Dr Joseph Goebbels, and his wife, Magda. The         bodies of their six children were in the bunker, their poisoning ordered         by their mother.
The         Soviet troops were led to the bodies of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun and         took the bodies with them as they moved west with the Soviet's Third         Army. Each night the remains were buried, often in the woods, and then         dug up when it was time to move on. Finally, Hitler and Braun were         buried behind Smersh's East German headquarters in Magdeburg, and         remained for 25 years under a yard later owned by a waste-disposal firm.
It         was not until 1970 that the remains of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were         dug up from Magdeburg and destroyed.
Adolf         Hitler had founded the Third Reich 12 years and three months before. His         goals - the mass murder of the Jews, the establishment of a German         Empire based on the conquest of the Soviet Union, the murder of the         original inhabitants or their reduction to slaves of the Third Reich.         His Nazi Regime led to the annihilation of more than six million Jews in         Europe.
The Third Reich would survive him for one week - the nightmare he had         unleashed was over ...