Eva Braun

Eva Anna Paula Braun (Munich, 6 February 1912 – 30 april Berlin, 1945) was the mistress and – on the up to the minute – wife of the German dictator Adolf Hitler. This was one of the best kept secrets of nazi Germany. Hitler and Braun occurred one day before their joint suicide in marriage, just before the surrender of the Wehrmacht in the Second World War.

According to the driver of Erich Kempka, Hitler, Eva Braun was the "unluckiest woman" in Germany. She sat most of her time waiting for Hitler. Joachim Fest writes in his biography of Hitler how Eva Braun tacitly continued to wait, satisfied with a picture of Hitler. Gradually she accepted her frustrating role.

The personal servant of Hitler, Heinz Linge, remembered later how the staff called her: "the girl in a gilded cage". Hitler was fond of Eva and found relaxation in its presence. Hitler once said to Linge: "Fräulein Braun is a young girl, too young to be the wife of someone in my position. She is the only girl for me. Someday I will lead the "Reich", then I will marry Fräulein Braun. " [source?]



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[hide] *1 family background  ==Family Background[ Edit] == Braun was the middle of three daughters of the Catholic teacher, Friedrich (Fritz) Braun (1879-1964), and Franziska (Fanny) Braun-Kranbürger (1885-1976), who until her marriage was a seamstress. Her parents divorced in april 1921 and married in november 1922 again; probably for financial reasons. [source?]
 * 2 Training
 * Adolf Hitler 3
 * 4 lifestyle
 * 5 Death
 * 6 historical film recordings of Eva Braun
 * Eva Braun in movies 7
 * 8 Eva Braun in theatre plays
 * Literature 9
 * 9.1 Non-Fiction
 * 9.2 Fiction
 * 10 external link

Eva's older sister Ilse (1908/1909?-1979) as well as her father was little charmed by the national socialism. Ilse was married twice; Neither marriages held and they remained childless. Eva's younger sister Margarete (Gretl) (1915-1987) married on 3 June 1944 in Salzburg with Hermann Fegelein, a senior officer of the Waffen-SS who in the last days of the war because of cowardice was executed.They remarried in 1954 with Kurt Berlinghoff, a textile trader. ==Training[ Edit] == Eva Braun studied at the Catholic Lyceum in Munich. She was an average student and had a certain predisposition to sport: skiing, climbing and dancing. They followed a trade one year training in a monastery inSimbach am Inn. After this, she spent a short time in the Office. For they met Adolf Hitler, she worked in the photo studio of Heinrich Hoffmann, a close friend of Hitler. ==Adolf Hitler<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">She met Hitler in 1929, when she was an Assistant of Hitler's photographer Heinrich Hoffmann. To her sister she described him as "a gentleman of a certain age with a funny mustache and a hat". She was love him and did a love letter in his coat pocket. She wanted more attention, but she was not his only girlfriend. Jealous as she was, shot them in 1932 herself in her neck. Her sister Ilse found her bloody on the ground.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Doctors save her life and from then on spent Adolf more attention to her. This was because his niece, Geli Raubal, a couple of years earlier, had committed suicide after they spent a time when Hitler. Hitler did not want that one incident was associated with the other; He tried to avoid a scandal.<sup class="noprint nopopups" len="309" style="line-height:1;"> [source? ] Braun went to live in his apartment in Munich, as his mistress. This was against the will of her father who wanted to be not related to the politics of Hitler.<sup class="noprint nopopups" len="309" style="line-height:1;"> [source?]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Because Hitler had the pressure, he could spend little time Eva. It went again not good with her. In her diary she wrote how lonely they felt at that time. In 1935, three years after she undertook her first suicide attempt, a new attempt, now with an overdose of sleeping pills. She was saved for the second time. They got a villa in a suburb of Munich and a car and driver. In 1936 she joined Hitler's Berghof on the household and she became his mistress. They often stayed in Munich. They also possessed an apartment in Berlin, designed by Albert Speer.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Eva loved Hitler, but was also afraid of him at the same time. They accepted all he asked her. She served in her room waiting if there was visiting and if does not exhibit. Eva felt this very lonely. They hardly came out of the House and a public display with Hitler was completely excluded. Hitler, on the other hand, had much success with German women. If he would exhibit together with Eva, this would not be good for his image, popularity and election. Eva and Hitler had occasional short conversations. But this was not so common. Eva learned living with a man who avoided all forms of intimacy. Hitler found rest at her. He gradually began to keep more of Eva. Servants of Hitler confirmed that he gradually more to Eva called and sent letters to do her even when he got the chance.<sup class="noprint nopopups" len="309" style="line-height:1;"> [source? ] During the war they appeared more often together in public. So was Eva present on his birthday and if they occasionally to the receptions. But Hitler remained severe for her. In her diary she described how sad and sometimes they felt humiliated by Hitler.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Her parents accepted the relationship at first, but later visited several times the country houses of Adolf and Eva. For the German people, she was not very well known. Hitler had to radiate an independent image. Braun lived quite withdrawn. She had no political interest and was also not a member of the NSDAP. She stayed mostly on the Berghof where they own many film recordings made. Also she traveled regularly in Europe, which also many homemade film images have been recovered. She is often seen as ignorant, but it appears from a letter to her sister that Eve was aware of concentration camps and the persecution of the Jews. Hitler was the love of her life, so she wrote in her diary after the July 20 plot: "At our first meeting I swore to follow you everywhere-even in death. Your love is the only thing where I live. " Hitler took Braun on in his will, she would get 12,000 German marks annually after his death. ==Lifestyle<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Braun converted the small house of Hitler on the mountain at Obersalzberg, that he had purchased in 1933. This renovation began in 1934 and was completed in 1936. To the original cottage became a large wing and a number of outbuildings added. The whole area was fenced and the remaining houses on the mountain were bought by the NSDAP and razed to the ground. Braun and the other members of Hitler's entourage were cut off from the outside world. Göring and Speer, Bormann left to build houses within the complex.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Heinz Linge, Hitler's servant, wrote in his memoirs that Hitler and Braun in the Berghof had two bedrooms and two bathrooms that were connected. Hitler ended most evenings alone with her in his study room before they went to sleep. They wore a robe and drank wine; Hitler drank tea. Publicly display of affection or physical contact did not happen, not even in the closed world of the Berghof. For the regular visitors Braun took the role of hostess in itself, all she kept not deal with household chores. She invited friends and family as the only regularly to keep her company during her stay.

<p lang="en" len="119" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Hitler was very attached to her and was worried when she went to leave work or returned to drink tea.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Braun was very fond of her two Scottish Terriers, Negus and Stasi called and they played with it in her home made movies of home. They kept them mostly away from Hitler's German Shepherd, Blondi. ==Death<span class="mw-editsection" len="320" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">On 29 april 1945 married Braun with Adolf Hitler in Berlin, at the time the Soviet-Russian troops the city had already largely owned. In the Führerbunker was a macabre Party held, while Hitler in a side room to Traudl Junge dictated his political testament. A day later they both committed suicide in the Führerbunker. Eva Braun took cyanide in together with Hitler and Hitler also shot himself in the head.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">It is unclear what happened then with the bodies. The most common theory is that they're using gasoline are burned in a pit. The Russians would have found their charred bodies relatively quickly. Afterwards they secretly are buried on the grounds of the headquarters of the Soviet-Russian counter-espionage (SMERSH) in the Eastern German Magdeburg. The remains were disinterred by the Russians in 1970 and, along with those of Joseph and Magda Goebbels and their six children, fully cremated. The ashes would be in the river Elbe are strewn.

<p lang="en" len="56" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The other members of her family survived the war.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">German researchers discovered In 2013 in a museum in Munich, along with many other stuff from the nazi era, the watch that Hitler gave her for her 27th birthday. It was engraved with the text "On 6.2.1939. Lots of love, a. Hitler".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="161" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2014 did a British television programme Death Famous DNA research into the DNA of a number of hairs on a comb which was attributed to Braun. One came to the conclusion that the detected DNA structure associated with Ashkenazi Jews. It is not certain whether this comb actually belonged to Braun. It is necessary to have the DNA of the two surviving family members<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" len="161" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2] ==Historical film recordings of Eva Braun<span class="mw-editsection" len="353" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Eva Braun in movies<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="245" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Some actresses who played Eva Braun:<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" len="161" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3]
 * The secret film archive of Eva Braun, Polar film + Medien GmBh
 * Nordlandreise 1939, film shots of a trip of Eva Braun with the MS-Milwaukee, Zeitreisen Verlag

==Eva Braun in theatre plays<span class="mw-editsection" len="343" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Lotte Tobisch(1955): Der letzte Akt = The Last Act = The Last Ten Days
 * (1969) Angelika Waller: Befreiung = Liberation = The Great Battle = Osvobozhdenie
 * Doris Kunstmann(1973): Hitler: those letzten zehn Tage = Hitler: The Last Ten Days
 * (1989) Brigitte Kausch-Kuhlbrodt: 100 Jahre Adolf Hitler: that letzte Stunde im Führerbunker
 * Katja Riemann(2001): Goebbels und Patient
 * (2003) Zoe Telford: Aufstieg des Bösen: Hitler = Hitler: The Rise of Evil
 * Juliane Köhler(2004): Der Untergang 'Downfall =
 * Christine Tremarco(2005): verbotene Liebe Which Nichte: Hitler's = Uncle Adolf
 * (2005) Eva Haßmann: Speer und There (TV mini series)
 * (2007) Katja Riemann: Mein Führer wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler: who really understand = Mein Führer: The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler
 * Ulrich Hub(1995), Fräulein Braun, premiered February 17, 1995 Thalia Theatre in Hamburg, directed by Ulrich Hub; monologue<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" len="161" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]
 * Stefan Kolditz(1996): Eva, Hitler's Geliebte (Berliner Ensemble, premiered november 29, 1996, with Corinna Harfouch, Director Stephan Suschke = Eva, Hitler's sweet (Theater Malpertuis, premiered november 3, 2000 in Tielt, with Tania Van der Sanden, direction and Sam Bogaertstranslation)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" len="161" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" len="161" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6]
 * (2008) Karsten Stegemann, Eva Braun Medea, ein Deutsches Bunkermärchen, premiered January 25, 2008, with Sesede Terziyan, Director Sebastian Latch<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" len="161" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]