Adolf Hitler directed German military operations from the Führerbunker in Berlin during the Battle of Berlin and committed suicide on April 30, 1945.
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The Short Version
The historical record strongly supports this account. Multiple authoritative sources show Hitler was directing the defense of Berlin from the Führerbunker during the battle, even as his orders became increasingly unrealistic and militarily ineffective. Independent archival, eyewitness, and forensic evidence also consistently place his suicide in the bunker on April 30, 1945.
Caveats
"Directed military operations" should not be read as effective battlefield control; by late April 1945 many of Hitler’s orders were detached from the actual military situation.
Sources differ slightly on the precise suicide mechanism—gunshot alone or gunshot with cyanide—but not on the core fact of suicide in the bunker on April 30, 1945.
Lower-quality tertiary or commercial history pages exist in the source list, but they are unnecessary because stronger archival and institutional sources already establish the claim.