How did Adolf Hitler die?

How Hitler Died

Adolf Hitler shot himself in the head with a pistol on April 30, 1945, shortly before the invading Soviet Army captured his bunker in Berlin.

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• It's pretty much common sense. After leading the greatest war the world has ever seen and being responsible for the deaths of millions and millions of people, from gypsies to Jews, how can anyone live with himself? Hitler committed suicide, along with his new wife. Only the devil would be able to live with himself after causing such mass destruction.
  
  
• Adolf Hitler did not kill himself out of any sort of remorse for the deaths of others. He did it out of fear of being caught. He never felt remorse for the deaths of the Jews because he believed himself to be right and justified. Racism usually means that a person truely believes that what they are doing is right and that whatever other race it is, is lesser than they are and do not deserve equality or sometimes even life.

• After taking cyanide, first tested on his dog Blondie, he shot himself through the right temple. (the poison worked on Eva, not on Adolf.)

• Apparently, he took a poison capsule and shot himself through the mouth. (It was the right temple, not the mouth)

• From what I have researched is that he overdosed himself because he didn't want to deal with the pain from shooting himself so he overdose so he didn't feel the pain.

• Here is something for you to consider. I, myself do come from a nazi family. My source was in the SS and he has told me much of Hitler's plans, etc.
  
  
• I was told that his "suicide" was staged. He did not kill himself, he instead planned it and fled Germany under a new alias and a disguise. (Corny I know, but hear me through.) He travelled to the South Americas and met with other Nazis who had fled to Paraguay, and eventually Hitler resided in what is now San Diego.
  
  
• Everyone has his own opinion about how Hitler died: I think that he shot himself with a pistol, because he was afraid he was going to get caught by the Americans.

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