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| 1945 April 13 |
| | | Russian forces reach and capture the Austrian capital, Vienna | |
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| 1945 April 15 |
| | | The British reach Belsen and reveal appalling Nazi atrocities, worse even than at Buchenwald | |
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| 1945 April 25 |
| | | American and Soviet troops join up at Torgau, 70 miles south of Berlin | |
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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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