On April 30,1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide in an underground bunker near the center of Berlin. His dream of a Thousand - Year Reich" lay in ruins. German cities had been bombed, German armies captured or destroyed. A week after Hitlers death, Germany offered unconditional surrender to Allied forces. The nightmare of World War 2 in Europe came to an end. Hitler was the only man responsible for the horrors of World War 2. But it was his …showed first 75 words of 1107 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1107 total…create a Nazi empire in the center of Europe. Only a madman could have dreamed these dreams. Only a political genius could have mobilized public support for them. Only an original military thinker could have come as close as he did tdo making them all come true. In the end, however, Hitler was defeated, and the political and geographic changes in Europe which his war produced were the opposite of what he intended. Word Count: 1129