The most hated person since Judas Iscariot has met the same fate.
On April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler and his wife, Eva Braun, killed themselves to avoid capture by Soviet troops. Their bodies were burned to avoid desecration by the Soviets.
Hitler had appointed Joseph Goebbels as German chancellor (head of government) and Admiral Karl Dönitz as president (head of state).
Goebbels and his wife, trapped in the Führerbunker, murdered their six children before killing themselves the next day.
Dönitz remained president for 23 days before he was deposed by the Allies. During this time he ordered the surrender of Nazi military forces, enabling 1.8 million Wermacht to surrender to the western allies instead of the Soviets.
Dönitz was convicted of war crimes, probably more because of his title than any real criminal acts, and served 10 years in Spandau prison. He was the highest ranking Nazi convicted. Dönitz died in 1980 at the age of 91.
