ON THIS DAY… THE DEATH OF ADOLF HITLER It was on this day, 30th April, back in 1945 when Adolf Hitler supposedly committed suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. The prospect of Germany winning the war had seemed unlikely since 1943, and even more so after the Western Allied armies had landed at Normandy in June 1944 and began pushing German forces back towards Berlin. Hitler retreated to his bunker in January 1945 with his long-time mistress Eva Braun. The bunker was Located fifty-five feet under the Reich Chancellery, contained eighteen rooms, and was fully self-sufficient with its own water and electrical supply. Knowing the end was near and his dream of a 1,000-year Reich was over he appointed Admiral Karl Donitz as head of state and Goebbels as chancellor in his last will and testament. He also married his long-time mistress Eva Braun just two days before his suicide. It’s fair to say that conspiracy theories exist regarding Hitl...