This Date in History: April 30

 

Eva Braun, long-time mistress and finally wife of Adolf Hitler, born February 6, 1912 in Munich, probably committed suicide by poison on April 30, 1945 in Hitler’s bunker in Berlin, uttered these last words to one of Hitler’s secretaries: “Sweetheart, here’s a present for next winter and your life after the war.  I wish you all the luck in the world. And when you put it on, always remember me and give my very best to our native Bavaria – Bavaria the beautiful.” (2000 Quotations from Hitler’s Thousand Year Reich)

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Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi Party and chancellor of Germany, born April 20, 1889 in Braunau am Inn, Austria, winner of Iron Cross 1st Class in World War I, author of Mein Kampf, probably committed suicide by gunshot/poison on April 30, 1945 in his bunker in Berlin, said in 1928: “Hanfstaengel, there are two ways in this world to judge a man – the kind of woman he marries, and the way he dies.”  (2000 Quotations from Hitler’s Thousand Year Reich)