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Hitler died 73 years ago today — here's how newspapers around the world reacted
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- Adolf Hitler died by suicide on April 30, 1945.
- Newspapers around the world reacted to reports of Hitler's death with bold, full-page headlines, and in some cases, cheery delight.
- "Germans put out the news everyone hopes is true," one newspaper wrote.
Exactly 73 years ago, on April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide in a bunker in Berlin, bringing to an end the life of one of history's most notorious figures.
News of Hitler's demise was slow to reach the United States, and the reports that did reach across the Atlantic were initially met with skepticism. Most American newspapers didn't run the news until May 2 — a full two days later — and even then, President Harry Truman was cautious in confirming the reports at a press conference.
Still, Hitler's death signaled the final nail in the coffin for the Axis Powers in World War II. Less than a week after the news broke, German forces unconditionally surrendered in Europe, and by September the war had officially ended.
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The Death of Adolf Hitler
1968 book by Lev Bezymenski
This article is about the book. For the event, see Death of Adolf Hitler. For the television episode, see The Death of Adolf Hitler (ITV Sunday Night Theatre).
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| Author | Lev Bezymenski |
|---|---|
| Original title | Der Tod des Adolf Hitler: Unbekannte Dokumente aus Moskauer Archiven[a] |
| Language | German |
| Publisher | Wegner |
Publication date | 1968 |
| Publication place | Germany |
Published in English | 1968 |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Pages | c. 134 |
The Death of Adolf Hitler: Unknown Documents from Soviet Archives[a] is a 1968 book by Soviet journalist Lev Bezymenski, who served as an interpreter in the Battle of Berlin. The book gives details of the purported Soviet autopsies of Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun, Joseph and Magda Goebbels, their children, and General Hans Krebs. Each of these individuals are recorded as having died by cyanide poisoning, contrary to the conclusion of Western scholars that Hitler died by a suicide gunshot.
The book's release was preceded by many contrary reports about Hitler's death, including from commonly self-contradictory (and tortured) eyewitnesses. The Soviets implied that the body of an apparent