Overview

• Adolf Hitler’s death on April 30, 1945, is confirmed as a combined suicide by cyanide ingestion and a gunshot to the head.
• Klaus Püschel’s research integrates Russian autopsy reports, dental records, and skull fragment photos accessed in the 1990s.
• Soviet military doctors conducted a detailed autopsy on Hitler’s charred remains between May 7 and 9, 1945, in Berlin-Buch.
• The remains were exhumed, cremated, and the ashes scattered in the river Ehle in 1970 under KGB orders to prevent relics.
• The findings aim to counter decades of conspiracy theories, presenting a definitive account of Hitler’s final moments.