Hitler's death

:For fiction about Hitler's death see Hitler in popular culture

Trivia

• In July 1943 Pierre J. Huss, chief correspondent in Berlin for the International News Service who had interviewed Hitler several times during the 1930s and 1940s, filed a report which concluded, "But Hitler, unlike Il Duce, probably will ride the storm to the bitter end, wildly spilling oceans of blood in occupied countries and even in the Reich itself, and kill himself rather than follow Mussolini's example and resign." That same year a classified psychological report by the Office of Strategic Services came to the same conclusion.
• Hitler's last lunch has been said to have been spaghetti with a "light sauce." According to his secretaries (who ate with him), the conversation at the meal revolved around dog breeding and how lipstick was made from sewer grease. Both were topics which Hitler had brought up on numerous past occasions.
• There was an anecdote, likely an urban legend, that the fragment of Hitler's skull from the Archives was presented as a gift to Stalin, who then used it as an ashtray in a boast of triumph over his enemy. This story may have emerged from a more prosaic tale however, since the fragments were kept for a time in a wooden cigar box by a member of 79th SMERSH.
• On October 31, 2003, Kamato Hongo, the only living person with a birthdate earlier than Adolf Hitler, passed away. With the passing of Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan on May 29, 2004, no one born in the decade of the 1880s, male or female, was known to be living. In effect, if Hitler had still been alive somewhere, he would have been the oldest living person in the world.