The death of Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his bunker as the Red Army closed in on Berlin on April 30, 1945. But legends about the Nazi dictator's lived on. Was his body ever found? Did he manage to escape? After Hitler, aides poured gasoline on his body and set it alight in the garden of his chancellery. A...

42 min - War & Military - DW Documentary

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