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Why did Adolf Hitler commit suicide in April 1945?

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Nazi SS troops march in formation carrying banners with swastikas and eagles at the 1933 Party Day rally in Nuremberg, Germany, with trees in the background. — Third Reich A Nazi Party rally at Nürnberg, Germany, in 1933.

Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945, because he faced the inevitable defeat of the Third Reich as Allied forces closed in on Berlin.21

By April 1945, the Soviet Union had encircled the city, and Western Allied forces had advanced deep into German territory. Having retreated into his underground bunker in January 1945, Hitler remained there in a state of extreme nervous exhaustion, eventually accepting that his military situation was hopeless. With Soviet troops less than a half-mile from his bunker complex, he concluded that his regime had collapsed.23451

Before taking his own life, Hitler married Eva Braun and dictated a political testament in which he blamed others—principally the Jews—for the war, expressing no remorse for the destruction he had caused. He then shot himself, while his wife died by poison. Their bodies were subsequently burned in the garden of the Reich Chancellery in accordance with his instructions.4163