No Reckoning

Hitler's death is often framed as the dramatic final act of a tragic villain. The reality is simpler and uglier. He chose suicide over accountability and never faced justice for the Holocaust, which murdered 6 million Jews and millions of others.

While he hid underground, the world above was uncovering the camps. Auschwitz had been liberated three months earlier, and British troops entered Bergen-Belsen two weeks before his death. The man who caused more suffering than almost anyone in history avoided a single consequence.