"I Saw Hitler Shoot Himself" Says Ex-Pilot -- Hans Bauer, who was Hitler's personal pilot, is surrounded by journalists as he tells them his story of the last hours in the Bunker Beneath the Reich Chancellery in Berlin when, he says, he saw the suicide of Hitler and Eva Braun. Bauer arrived here in the third transport of POWs from Russia under the recent Russo-German agreement. According to his story. Hitler shook his hand before shooting himself. October 09, 1955. (Photo by United Press Telephoto).