Timeline Monday 30 April 1945

Events on Monday 30 April 1945 5

• 1889 – 1945 Adolf Hitler The Führer Leader of the Nazi Party who became dictator of Germany and initiated World War II and the Holocaust.
• 1889 – 1945 Hitler Nazi Germany dictator Adolf Hitler led Nazi Germany, instigating World War II and the Holocaust, resulting in the deaths of six million Jews and millions of others.
• 1912 – 1945 Eva Braun (1912-1945) Died 30 April 1945, aged 32 Eva Braun was Adolf Hitler's longtime companion and, for less than 40 hours, his wife. She died alongside him by suicide in the Führerbunker as Soviet forces closed in on Berlin. Her relationship with Hitler was kept largely secret from the German public during the war.
• 1933 – 1945 Adolf Hitler Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler established a totalitarian dictatorship, initiated World War II, and orchestrated the Holocaust.
• 1945 Hitler commits suicide In his Berlin bunker as Soviets close in Adolf Hitler shot himself in his Führerbunker in Berlin on April 30, 1945, as Soviet forces fought less than 500 metres away. Eva Braun, whom he had married the previous day, took cyanide simultaneously.