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Tuesday 1st of May 1945 (-) — Nazi leader and Reichspropagandaleiter Joseph Goebbels commits suicide by cyanide poisoning and a shot through the head
At 20.00hrs Goebbels arranged for SS dentist Helmut Kunz to inject his six children with morphine. When they were unconscious, Magda Goebbels and Ludwig Stumpfegger, Hitler's personal doctor who then crushed cyanide capsules in their mouths. Shortly afterwards Goebbels and his wife went up to the garden of the bunker where they killed themselves. Sunday 29th of April 1945 (x) — Führer and Reichskanzler of Germany Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun
Tuesday 1st of May 1945 (-) — Wife of Joseph Goebbels Magda Ritschel commits suicide cyanide poisoning and a shot through the head
Monday 30th of April 1945 (-) — Führer and Reichskanzler of Germany Adolf Hitler commits suicide by a shot in the head
SS-Sturmbannführer Otto Günsche entered the study and found the two lifeless bodies on the sofa. Eva Braun was with her legs drawn up to Hitler's left and slumped away from him. Hitler had shot himself with his own Walther PPK 7.65. The gun lay at his feet and Hitler's head was lying on the table in front of him. Blood dripping from Hitler's right temple and chin had made a large stain on the right arm of the sofa and was pooling on the carpet. Braun's body had no visible physical wounds and her face showed how she had died—by cyanide poisoning |
