After the loss of WWII, Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945. Burrowed away in his air raid bunker, he drank a capsule of cyanide and then shot himself with a pistol. The bunker was 55 feet under his Chancellor Headquarters. He committed suicide along with his newly wed wife Eva Braun, in which they were only married for 2 days. Along with the death of Hitler, was the death of the Nazi Party.