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Adolf Hitler's death 70th anniversary: Five facts about the final hours of the German Nazi leader On the 70th anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s suicide in his Fuhur bunker in Berlin, here are some facts surrounding the Nazi leader’s final hours. Hitler’s health A little over ten years ago Erna Flegel’s account from inside the bunker emerged, a nurse assigned to the Reich Chancellery in 1943. As a devoted Nazi she looked on as those closest to Hitler gathered and recorded her impressions of Hitler. 1945: Private First Class Richard Blust of Michigan surveys the bunker at the German Reichschancellery in Berlin where Adolf Hitler and his wife Eva Braun are thought to have committed suicide (Getty) “He shook a great deal, walking was difficult for him, his right side was still very much weakened as a result of the attempt on his life," she later told CIA interrogators. The last meal Hitler’s now wife Eva did not feel well in the run-up to their suici...