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On 30 April 1945, after intense street-to-street combat, when Soviet troops were within a block or two of the Reich Chancellory, Hitler committed suicide, shooting himself while simultaneously biting into a cyanide capsule.[78][79] Hitler's body and that of Eva Braun (his mistress whom he had married the day before) were put in a bomb crater,[80][81] doused in gasoline by Otto G?nsche and other F?hrerbunker aides, and set alight as the Red Army advanced and shelling continued.[78] Hitler also poisoned his dog Blondi to test the poison he and Eva Braun were going to take.

On 2 May, Berlin surrendered. At the Chancellory the Russians found Hitler's body and an autopsy was performed. Dental records apparently confirmed the identification. Hitler and Braun's remains were buried by SMERSH at their headquarters in Magdeburg.[82] In 1970, when the facility was to be turned over to the East German government, the remains were reportedly exhumed and cremated.[82] According to the Russian Federal Security Service, a fragment of human skull stored in its archives and displayed to the public in a 2000 exhibition came from the remains of Hitler's body and is all that remains of Hitler. The authenticity of the skull has been challenged by many historians and researchers

Paula Hitler, the last living member of Adolf Hitler's immediate family, died in 1960.

The most prominent and longest-living direct descendants of Adolf Hitler's father, Alois, was Adolf's nephew William Patrick Hitler. With his wife Phyllis, he eventually moved to Long Island, New York, and had four sons. None of William Hitler's children have yet had any children of their own.

Over the years various investigative reporters have attempted to track down other distant relatives of the F?hrer; many are now alleged to be living inconspicuous lives and have long since changed their last name.


Adolf Hitler's genealogy

Eva Braun, mistress and then wife
Alois Hitler, father
Klara Hitler, mother
Paula Hitler, sister
Alois Hitler, Jr., half-brother
Bridget Dowling, sister-in-law
William Patrick Hitler, nephew
Heinz Hitler, nephew
Angela Hitler Raubal, half-sister
Maria Schicklgruber, grandmother
Johann Georg Hiedler, presumed grandfather
Johann Nepomuk Hiedler, maternal great-grandfather, presumed great uncle and possibly Hitler's true paternal grandfather
Geli Raubal, niece
Hermann Fegelein, brother-in-law through Hitler's marriage to Eva Braun


See for links and more information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_hitler