Hitler shot himself 75 years ago, ending an era of war, genocide and destruction

He was defiant and drug-addled until the very end. Winston Churchill called Hitler “a maniac of ferocious genius … the repository and expression of the most virulent hatreds that have ever corroded the human breast.” 75 years after his death, Michael E. Ruane details in The Washington Post how the German dictator and his wife ultimately saw their death, leading to the eventual freedom of Europe.