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I'm too lazy to look it up but if I remember correctly the war continued in Asia for weeks/ months? Until the US nuclear-bombed Nagasaki.
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WW2 didn't end until a lot of Japanese people were vaporized. But maybe there was an Austrian in town at the time? >

it also didn't end with Hitler's death, it ended a few days later as the german forces began surrendering