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On [[28 April]], the same day [[Italy]]'s [[Benito Mussolini]] was [[Death sentence|executed]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Just War (novel)|Just War]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Just War (audio story)|Just War]]'') Hitler found out about Himmler's secret surrender negotiations and branded him a traitor. He had Fegelein, one of Himmler's closest aides, executed for attempting to leave the Bunker. | On [[28 April]], the same day [[Italy]]'s [[Benito Mussolini]] was [[Death sentence|executed]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Just War (novel)|Just War]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Just War (audio story)|Just War]]'') Hitler found out about Himmler's secret surrender negotiations and branded him a traitor. He had Fegelein, one of Himmler's closest aides, executed for attempting to leave the Bunker. | ||
On [[29 April]], Hitler [[Marriage|married]] Eva Braun. Goebbels was sent out into the streets of Berlin to find an official to conduct the ceremony. Eva signed her name on the marriage certificate as "Eva Hitler". Afterwards, Hitler dictated [[Will and Political Testament of Adolf Hitler|his Will and Political Testament]] to [[Adolf Hitler's secretary|a secretary]]. Denouncing both the [[Wehrmacht]] and [[Luftwaffe]] for their [[failure]], he named the highest ranking [[Kriegsmarine]] [[commander]], [[Admiral]] [[Donitz]], as his successor, and blamed the start of the war on a [[Jew]]<nowiki/>ish [[conspiracy]]. In the [[afternoon]], Joseph and Magda Goebbels held a [[party]] for their six children. | |||
==== The death of Hitler ==== | ==== The death of Hitler ==== | ||
On the [[morning]] of [[30 April]], Eva visited the [[garden]] of the Reichschancellery for the final time. Hitler and Eva then made their formal farewells in the main [[corridor]] of the Bunker. By some accounts, it was still morning, but the farewells were made after [[lunch]]. If a nearby [[clock tower]] was still working, it indicated that the fateful events took place at around 3 o'clock in the [[afternoon]]. | On the [[morning]] of [[30 April]], Eva visited the [[garden]] of the Reichschancellery for the final time. Hitler and Eva then made their formal farewells in the main [[corridor]] of the Bunker. By some accounts, it was still morning, but the farewells were made after [[lunch]]. If a nearby [[clock tower]] was still working, it indicated that the fateful events took place at around 3 o'clock in the [[afternoon]]. | ||
