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Adolf Hitler
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As Soviet forces advanced into Berlin in April 1945, Hitler retreated to his underground bunker (der Führerbunker). On April 30, 1945, with Soviet troops blocks away, Hitler shot himself while simultaneously biting down on a cyanide capsule—a dual-method suicide that historians attribute to his anxiety regarding the uncertain efficacy of either method alone.[^4] His wife of one day, Eva Braun, died by cyanide. Per Hitler's alleged instructions, their bodies were carried outside, doused with gasoline, and set ablaze by remaining staff.
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National Socialist German Workers Party
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Following the commencement of World War II in 1939, the NSDAP became functionally synonymous with the state administration prosecuting the war effort. The party's structure collapsed along with the military defeat of Germany in 1945. Following Hitler's suicide on 30 April 1945, the party effectively ceased to exist.
The Allied Control Council formally declared the NSDAP an illegal organization in October 1945. Its assets were seized, its symbols were banned, and its former leadership was prosecuted for [crimes against humanity](/ent… -
Second World War
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The war in Europe concluded on V-E Day, 8 May 1945, following the suicide of Hitler and the Soviet capture of Berlin. In the Pacific, the war continued until August 1945, when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan formally surrendered on 2 September 1945 aboard the USS Missouri.
The war resulted in an estimated $70$ to $85$ million fatalities, a majority of whom were civilians. The aftermath saw the collapse of European colonial empires, the division of Germany into East and West, the establish… -
The Holocaust
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Railway workers and bureaucrats
The Nuremberg Trials (1945–1946) prosecuted major Nazi leaders, establishing legal precedent for crimes against humanity. However, many perpetrators escaped justice or received lenient sentences.[^7]
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World War Ii
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The most horrific aspect of the war was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators, an event known as the Holocaust. This genocide, along with the persecution of Roma people, Slavs, political opponents, and others deemed "undesirable," was carried out primarily in extermination camps across occupied Europe.
Following the war, the victorious Allies conducted the Nuremberg Trials and the Tokyo Trials to prosecute major surviving Axis leaders for crimes a…