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What brought about Hitler's demise?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Hitler's demise was two-fold. Along the Eastern Front(Russia) he lost his 6th Army trying to take the city of Stalingrad in 1943. This forced the German Army to stop it's push into Russia and eventually retreat back to Poland, while the Soviet army gained momentum. Along the Western Front, the failure of the German Luftwaffe to gain air superiority(Battle of Britain 1940), and a

desired land invasion of the U.K., prevented Hitler from eliminating the two enemies standing in his way of European domination. The Allied Powers gained the needed advantage on the Western Front with the Normandy Invasion and infusion of American soldiers in June 1944. By Feb. 1945 Hitler's army was retreating back, having lost much of the land it had taken prior- with both the US and Russian armies advancing into Germany. In his final days, Hitler hid in a bunker in Berlin with a few high ranking Nazi officers and his new wife Eva Braun. While they hid, the Russians closed in from the East and the US/British army closed in from the West. Hitler shot himself on April 30th, while Eva Braun ingested cyanide.

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