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| 1945 April 25 |
| | Soviet armies form a complete circle around Berlin to isolate the city | |
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| 1945 April 28 |
| | Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are shot by partisans and their bodies are hung from a gibbet in Milan | |
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| 1945 April 29 |
| | Against Hitler's specific orders, the commander of the German army in Italy surrenders to the Allies | |
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| 1945 April 29 |
| | Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun in his bunker, and holds a champagne reception with Goebbels as the principal guest | |
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| 1945 April 30 |
| | Hitler chooses Admiral Dönitz as his successor and appoints his cabinet | |
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| 1945 April 30 |
| | Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun retire to their marital quarters in the Berlin bunker and commit suicide | |
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| 1945 April 30 |
| | Soviet troops storm the Reichstag in the centre of Berlin on the day when Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his bunker below them | |
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| 1945 April 30 |
| | Anglo-US Fascist William Joyce ('Lord Haw Haw') makes his final English broadcast from Hamburg | |
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| 1945 May 1 |
| | In the Berlin bunker, on the day after Hitler's death, Goebbels arranges for his six children to be lethally injected, and himself and his wife to be shot | |
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| 1945 May 2 |
| | The German general commanding Berlin, Karl Weidling, surrenders the city to the Allies | |
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