Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun
The last dramatic and convulsive hours of Adolf Hitler 's life and his longtime lover Eva Braun they have been reconstructed thanks to the testimonies of the survivors , those few who managed to escape unscathed from the bunker in which for months they had voluntarily locked themselves up.
In this underground structure, located under the Reich Chancellery, the Fuhrer and the others had already been there since mid-January 1945, but since then many had fled and at the end of April, of the initial guests, there were only thirty people left, namely cooks, secretaries, nurses, Martin Bormann , secretary of Hitler, and the ubiquitous Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, with his large family.
Noting that all was now lost, under the leaden sky of a Berlin under siege, the Fuhrer, before killing himself (he would never let his enemies capture him alive), he decided to marry Eva Braun.
It was April 29th and the climate, during the singular ceremony, was certainly not the typically festive one of weddings.
The sofa inside the bunker where Hitler and Eva Braun killed themselves
The next day, April 30, the ex Nazi leader hired his personal assistant, Otto Gunsche , to go and buy the 200 liters of gasoline that would be used, shortly thereafter, to burn the body of him and that of his wife.
After a last farewell to those present, the newly weds closed themselves in the study, he swallowed a capsule of cyanide, he killed Eva and then shot himself in the head.
When the others entered the room they found the couple now lifeless on the sofa and at that point they could not help but drag them into the garden, where the corpses were burned and buried.
Despite the many theories and doubts that have arisen about Hitler's end, this remains, to this day, the most accredited and accepted version.