Hitler and Gerdy Troost admiring a sculpture by Arno Breker.
Hitler’s Reichstag speech to declare war on the United States. 11 December 1941.
Adolf Hitler delivering a speech at the large exhibition hall in Munich. 14.03.1936
30 April 1945: The next day Adolf Hitler held his final staff conference being told that the Russians now were only a few blocks away. He had lunch as usual at 2 o’clock in the afternoon with his two secretaries and his cook. He now began making systematic preparations to commit suicide. He supervised the poisoning of his beloved dog Blondi and her pups and shortly after 3 p.m. he and Eva Braun bade farewell to the staff, assembled in the bunker, and retired to their private room to carry out their decision.
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.
Heinz Linge, Hitler’s personal valet, later recalled how he entered Hitler’s suite and saw him almost upright in a sitting position on a blood-soaked sofa. Eva Braun lay on the sofa beside him, but she had made no use of the revolver at her side, preferring to take the poison instead. A small hole showed on his right temple and a trickle of blood ran slowly down over his check. The pistol lay on the floor where it had dropped from his right hand.
No mark showed on Eva Braun’s face: “It was as though she had fallen asleep…” Linge remarked.
Adolf Hitler views a Nazi Party rally at Vienna, Austria, 15 March 1938.
