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Shortly before committing suicide in his underground Führerbunker, Hitler stepped outside with an SS officer to survey nearby bomb damage from Allied forces.

On April 30, 1945, Hitler learned that Berlin had fallen into Allied control and that his Third Reich, after 12 years, would inevitably be destroyed.

Hitler then quickly married his long-time mistress, Eva Braun, and prepared his last will and political statement with his secretary, Traudl Junge, at about 4 p.m.

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