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There were several witnesses to Hitler's suicide in the Fuehrerbunker, while they did not see the actual act, they did hear the gunshot. Entering Hitler's private quarters, they found Hitler dead from a bullet through his temple and a crushed cyanide capsule in his mouth as a backup. Eva Braun took only cyanide.

The bodies were carried up from the bunker and dumped in a shell crater, where they were hastily cremated. along with propaganda chief Goebbels and his entire family. The Russians overran the Reich Chancellery and the bunker a day later.

It was not until over 50 years later that the mystery was solved. The Russians did manage to get a hold of a few vital pieces of Hitler's remains for identification purposes, and later shipped them to Moscow, where they were buried in the secret state archives until the fall of communism. The rest of the bodies were buried in a far corner of a Soviet Army base in East Germany, to prevent anyone from finding the remains and attempting to make them into some kind of neo-Nazi shrine.

The area where the former Reich Chancellery was located was bulldozed as part of the no-man's land surrounding the Berlin Wall. After the wall came down and the no-man's land demined, the remains of the Fuehrerbunker were visited one last time for historical purposes before being sealed forever with explosive charges; it now forms the foundation of a parking garage in Berlin near the Brandenburg gate. Parking patrons today wouldn't even know about it.

Highly unlikely Hitler would be alive by now; April 20 would have marked his 114th birthday (and coincidentally, it's also the anniversary of my initiation into Alpha Sigma Phi). Medical documents revealed he was already suffering from the effects of Parkinson's disease, and his personal physician, Dr. Morell, was a quack, slowly poisoning Hitler with his concoctions of useless medicines.