Hitler died 73 years ago today - here's how newspapers around the world reacted

"Churchill hints peace is at hand," the military paper said.

The Daily News wrote years later: "Knowing that the end was near, Hitler moved into his bunker by January of 1945 and decided to kill himself before anyone else could by April."

"Will rant no more," a headline inside the paper read.

"American troops speeding across Austria," a headline read. "Peace by week's end hinted by Churchill," read another one.

The Tribune seemed especially skeptical of reports of Hitler's death. It refers to the leader's "'death' site" in quotation marks, and lower on the page, it ran an editorial from Associated Press Berlin correspondent Louis Lochner:

"I still find it difficult to believe that Hitler is really dead," he wrote.

"Hitler couldn't afford to accept unconditional surrender, so what may prove to be the legend of his meeting a hero's death had to be staged," he went on. "I still cannot escape the feeling that Hitler is some place where nobody expects him to be."

In a 2014 article about this front page, the writer Dominic Midgley wrote that "when the Daily Express reported the death of Adolf Hitler, it refused to dignify his passing with a picture on its front page and in a box entitled 'Obituary' said: 'The Daily Express rejoices to announce the report of Adolf Hitler's death.'"

Time would go on to use the "red X" motif over three more faces on future covers: Saddam Hussein, terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and Osama bin Laden.

"Hitler killed, Germans report," the lead headline read.

"Berlin est tombé" — "Berlin falls," the next headline says.

"Hostility in Europe is coming to an end," the newspaper wrote.

A smaller headline reads: "Despite [Germany's] decision to continue the fight against the Allies, it is believed that Hitler's death will hasten the end of the contest."

SHAEF stands for Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, and its newspaper was delivered by parachute "to supply news and at the same time important military instructions to displaced foreign nationals in Germany."

Karl Kaufmann, a Nazi leader in Hamburg, wrote on the front page: "It is the hardest hour of our people, when today we hear the news that our Führer has fallen fighting in the empire's capital."