The death of Adolf Hitler , leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (1921-1945) and Führer and Reichskanzler of the Third Reich (1933-1945), occurred on April 30 , 1945 in the Führerbunker in Berlin ; Hitler committed suicide with a gunshot to the head a ​b ​c​ along with his wife Eva Braun , who resorted to cyanide poisoning . d​ In accordance with Hitler's will and verbal instructions, that afternoon his bodies were carried up the stairs through the bunker's emergency exit, doused with gasoline and set on fire in the garden of the Reich Chancellery . 1 ​2​ Records kept in Soviet archives show that the burned remains were recovered and buried in successive locations until 1946. e​ They were exhumed again and cremated in 1970 and the ashes were dispersed.