Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was a German politician who is the chancellor of the Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, and also the Leader from 1934 to 1945, who is among the dictator. As dictator, Hitler initiated the World War II (wartime) in 1939, and was central to the Holocaust.

Hitler sought living space for the people in the Eastern Europe and his aggressive foreign policy is considered to be the primary course of World War II in Europe. He dictated large-scale rearmament and on 1 September 1939, invaded Poland that resulted in Britain and France declaring war on Germany. In June 1941, Hitler ordered an invasion to Soviet Union. By the end of 1941, German forces and European axis powers occupied most of the Europe. In December 1941, both Japanese and Europe declared war on the United States, bringing them directly to conflict.

Battle of Berlin
Following the Vistula-Oder offensive of January-February 1945, the Red Army temporarily halted the line 60 km east of Berlin. The first defensive preparations began on 20 March 1945. Two Soviet fronts began to be attacked on 16 April 1945.

In the final days of the war during the Battle of Berlin in 1945, he married Eva Braun. When the war ended, the two killed themselves to avoid capture by the Soviet's Red Army and the corpses burnt.

On 30 April 1945, when Soviet troops were within a block or two of the Reich Chancellery, Hitler shot himself and Braun was bit into a cyanide capsule. Their bodies were carried outside to the bombed-out garden behind the Reich Chancellery, when they were placed into a bomb crater and doused into petrol. The corpses were sent on fire as Red Army continued. Grand Admiral Karl Donitz and Joseph Goebells took over as the Chancellor and the Leader.

On 2 May 1945, Berlin was surrendered to the Soviet Union and divided into four sectors - American, British, French and Soviet. 2 May is also believed to be the day where Hitler's deputy Martin Bormann died near the Lehrter Bahnhof. These were unearthed on 7 December 1972.

These are the bridges that are burnt: