Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Adolf Hitler served in the German army in World War One, and in 1919 joined the German Workers’ Party. This would ...

AT AROUND 2.30 in the afternoon on April 30th 1945, Adolf Hitler sat on the sofa in his private study in the air-raid bunker below the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, put a loaded pistol to his right ...