when did eva braun die
Death of Adolf Hitler. Front page of the U.S. Armed Forces newspaper, Stars and Stripes, 2 May 1945. Adolf Hitler killed himself by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his FÃ¼hrerbunker in Berlin. His wife Eva Braun committed suicide with him by taking cyanide. That afternoon, in accordance with Hitler's prior instructions, their remains were carried up the stairs through the bunker's emergency exit, doused in petrol, and set alight in the Reich Chancellery garden outside the bunker.
Albert Speer, one of Hitlerâs confidants, wrote that Eva Braun would prove âa great disappointment to historiansâ. She may disappoint historians, but the woman who was Frau Hitler for just 24 hours, before engaging in a joint suicide pact in 1945, has proved an enduring fascination for other writers.