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Of the outside world, only Marshal Stalin had been informed by radio of Hitler’s suicide.

Not quite yet; word will pass from the Germans trying to negotiate a surrender of Berlin up the Soviet chain of command to Zhukov, who will personally call Stalin and wake him up to tell him the news. Stalin's response:

"So, that's the end of the bastard."

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“So, that’s the end of the bastard.”

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I remember an article in the Readers Digest in 1964 still presenting the possibility Hitler might still be alive in south America.

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German Radio - Hitler Has Fallen (April 30th, 1945)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6GgXa23yLo

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http://time.com/3524807/after-the-fall-photos-of-hitlers-bunker-and-the-ruins-of-berlin/

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Liberation of Munich April 30, 1945

http://blog.framepool.com/2015/04/liberation-of-munich-april-30-1945/

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With The U.S. Armored Cavalry, Bavaria, 04/30/1945

https://archive.org/details/ADC-4196b

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Capture of the Reichstag (April 30, 1945)

At 10.40 pm on April 30 a Soviet victory flag was raised over the German Reichstag building in Berlin. It was not a real flag but a large piece of red cloth. The soldier who performed this act was Private Mikhail Petrovich Minin of the Soviet 3rd Army. There was no camera-man present.

The Soviet propaganda photograph we see today was actually taken later on the 2nd of May. It shows a Ukrainian soldier posing for the propaganda picture. This soldier had taken no part in the storming of the Reichstag.

Private Minin and a small group of five men (with a promise of the decoration 'Hero of the Soviet Union') were ordered to storm the building using a fallen tree trunk to smash down the front door.

Soviet troops hoisted the red flag over the Reichstag and over the Reich Chancellery - a woman did that, Major Anna Nikulina of the 9th Rifle Corps.
~Berlin: The Downfall, 1945 by Antony Beevor

http://greyfalcon.us/restored/CAPTURE%20OF%20THE%20REICHSTAG.htm