Adolph Hitler's Marriage Certificate

In the morning of April 29, 1945 as Soviet troops closed in on his bunker, Adolf Hitler married his longtime companion Eva Braun. Less than 40 hours after their marriage, the newlyweds committed suicide together. In his will, Hitler states that Eva “goes to death with me as my wife, according to her own desires.” Adolf and Eva Hitler’s marriage certificate is signed by them and by witnesses Joseph Goebbels and Martin Bormann, as well as the registrar of marriage they pulled in from Berlin to perform the ceremony.

National Archives, National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized, 1675-1958