Adolf Hitler and his wife, Eva Braun, committed suicide on April 30, 1945 in a Berlin bunker. They had been married for less than 40 hours.

Braun chose cyanide poisoning to take his own life, according to historian Hugh Trevor-Roper. The discovery of an annex to Hitler's will, months later, helped clarify the picture of the dictator's last hours. The dictator's body and that of his wife were moved outside through an emergency exit, to the back of the Reich Chancellery.