The final fate of Nazi leaders.

Added: 2026-05-27

This video examines the final fates of key Nazi leaders as the Third Reich collapsed in 1945: Hermann Göring, sentenced to death at Nuremberg, secretly obtained cyanide and killed himself hours before execution; Heinrich Himmler attempted to escape disguised as a German soldier under the false name Heinrich Hitzinger but was captured by British forces and took cyanide; Josef Mengele, known as the 'Angel of Death,' escaped to South America and avoided capture for decades before drowning in Brazil in 1979; and Adolf Hitler killed himself in his Berlin bunker as Soviet forces closed in, though some later theories claimed he escaped to Argentina.