On this day 66 years ago, Hitler did the world a favor and took his own life. Unfortunately, he should have done it in 1923 and saved the world upwards of 100,000,000 dead while he pursued his ambition of being a great war leader and genocide. Less than two weeks after his death the leaders of his supposed 1,000 year Reich signed the Unconditional Surrender of Germany’s Armed Forces and ended World War II in Europe. It would take another four months for the Allies to force Imperial Japan to do the same thing.
 This is the BBC’s announcement of his death: Hitler_is_dead