Today in History # January 16, 1945

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Most of us would surely remember the Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945), the most powerful and infamous dictators of the 20th century.

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Yes, he was the one responsible for the establishment of concentration camps to inter Jews and other groups he believed to be a threat to Aryan supremacy resulted in the death of more than 6 million people in the Holocaust.

He attacked Poland in 1939 and started World War II, and by 1941 Germany occupied much of Europe and North Africa. The tide of the war turned following an invasion of Russian and the U.S. entry into battle.

Well, on this day, back in 1945, Adolf Hitler takes to his underground bunker, where he remains for 105 days until he commits suicide with his wife Eva Braun.

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There are some conspiracy theories that claimed this event did not truly occur. According to Wikipedia,Conspiracy theories about Adolf Hitler's death, it claimed that Adolf Hitler's death contradict the fact that Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his Führerbunker on 30 April 1945. Most of these theories hold that Hitler and his wife, Eva Braun, survived and escaped the city of Berlin.

If you would like to know more, you can find them in the sources below.

Sources:
History.com
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/adolf-hitler

Conspiracy Theories about Adolf Hitler
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theories_about_Adolf_Hitler%27s_death