40 Facts About Adolf Hitler and His Dramatic Fall

40 Facts About Adolf Hitler and His Dramatic Fall

Trista - December 19, 2018

40 Facts About Adolf Hitler and His Dramatic Fall
LIFE correspondent Percy Knauth, left, sifts through debris in the shallow trench in the garden of the Reich Chancellery where, Knauth was told, the bodies of Hitler and Eva Braun were burned after their suicides. Flickr/Stamp a Day.

2. His and Braun’s Bodies Were Burned

After Hitler’s and Braun’s bodies were discovered, they were carried up into the chancellery garden, coated with gasoline, and burned. An eyewitness, Rochus Misch, reported that someone yelled, “Hurry upstairs, they’re burning the boss!” His officers at the bunker raised their arms in a final salute to him.

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