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  1. 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.
    Hitler's regime left an estimated…

  2. 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…

  3. Schutzstaffel

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    Legal Status and Dissolution
    Following the collapse of the Third Reich, the Allied powers deemed the SS a criminal organization. The judgment delivered at the Nuremberg Tribunal asserted that membership in the SS—given its inherent criminal aims, particularly its involvement in genocide and war crimes—constituted a crime in itself [5]. This determination applied to virtually all branches, excluding only those inducted late in the war who could demonstrate they had no knowledge of, or compl…

  4. 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…

  5. 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]
    Legacy and Memory