Hitler willed his property to the Nazi Party, a Munich court gave it to Bavaria, and Bavaria used his copyright to block Mein Kampf for 70 years

In the Berlin bunker on 29 April 1945, Adolf Hitler signed a private will. His possessions were to go to the Nazi Party, or, if it no longer existed, to the State. His paintings were for a gallery in Linz. His executor, Martin Bormann, could give his siblings, his wife's mother and his old secretaries enough for a modest life. Hitler died the next day. German courts later found the will invalid for lack of legal form. On 15 October 1948 the Munich denazification court classified Hitler as a major offender and seized his estate in Bavaria for the Bavarian state. Bavaria took his Munich flat, the Berghof, which it blew up in 1952, and the copyright in Mein Kampf, which its finance ministry used to block reprints. His sister Paula was the only heir to file a claim. A Berchtesgaden court fixed his death at 15:30 on 30 April 1945, and in 1957 ruled that Eva Braun had died before him, ending her family's claim^†. On 17 February 1960 a Munich court awarded Paula two-thirds of the estate^†. She died on 1 June 1960. Her share passed to her half-sister's children, Leo Raubal and Elfriede Hochegger, who did not sue Bavaria^†. The United States had seized the American copyright in 1942 and collected $139,000 by 1979. The German copyright ran out on 1 January 2016, and the Institute for Contemporary History published an annotated edition that month. The Munich flat is a police station.