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Eva Anna Paula Braun ( February 6, 1912 - April 30, 1945) was born in Munich, Germany the daughter of a school teacher and educated at a convent school. She met Adolf Hitler in 1929 when she was an assistant to Hitler's court photographer and is said to have slipped a love letter into his pocket. Hitler invited her to his mountain retreat a few weeks later and she became his mistress. She described him to friends as a "gentleman of a certain age with a funny moustache and carrying a big felt hat." Braun is considered by historians as a passive woman of limited intelligence who offered Hitler total devotion and submission.


Hitler began to see more of Braun following the suicide of Geli Raubal in 19311931 is the common year starting on Thursday. see link for calendar) Events January January 4 Female aviator Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa January 6 Thomas Edison submits his last patent application. January 22 Sir Isaac Isaacs sworn in as the (though some historians suggest that Rabal killed herself because she was distraught over Hitler's relationship with Braun) though Hitler also saw other women such as actress Renate Mueller who also committed suicide. Braun attempted suicide in 19321932 is the leap year starting on Friday. see link for calendar) Events January-February January 3 British arrest and intern Mohandas Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel January 8 In Britain the Archbishop of Canterbury forbids church remarriage of divorcees Jan by shooting herself in the neck. After her recovery, Hitler became more committed to Braun and gave her a villa in Munich and provided her with a MercedesThe word Mercedes can refer to a number of things: A brand of automobiles and trucks: Mercedes-Benz, brand of automobiles and trucks from the German automobile manufacturer DaimlerChrysler A number of places: Mercedes, Buenos Aires province, Argentina Mer and a chauffeur. She attempted suicide a second time in 1935Events January January 1 Italian colonies of Tripoli and Kyrenaika are joined together as Libya January 7 World War II: Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French foreign minister Pierre Laval conclude agreement in which each power undertakes not to oppo.

In 1936Events January-February January 15 The first building to be completely covered in glass is completed in Toledo, Ohio, for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company. January 20 Death of George V of the United Kingdom. His son Edward VIII succeedes him as King of th she entered his household at BerghofThe Berghof was Adolf Hitler's home in Obersalzberg, in the Bavarian Alps near Berchtesgaden. It was located lower down the same mountain as the Eagle's Nest, which Hitler rarely visited due to his fear of heights. The Berghof was connected to the Platter near BerchtesgadenBerchtesgaden is a German municipality in the Bavarian Alps with a population of around 9,000. It is located in the district of Berchtesgadener Land in Bavaria, close to the border with Austria, 30 km south of Salzburg and 180 km south-east of Munich. and acted as hostess. She was generally kept ignorant of the many negative aspects of Hitler's government. Any person who mentioned anything bad about government programs or the defeats suffered by the military forces was no longer invited to be at any gathering where she was present. Nevertheless, she has been critcized for never having made any effort to mitigate the excesses of her husband and his followers.

Braun's relationship with Hitler was kept secret from the German people and they were never seen in public together.

In Inside The Third Reich Albert SpeerAlbert Speer ( March 19, 1905 September 1, 1981), sometimes called 'the first architect of the Third Reich', was Hitler's chief architect in Nazi Germany and became in 1942 minister of armament in Hitler's cabinet. After the war he was tried at Nuremberg describes the relationship as follows:

Eva Braun was allowed to be present during visits from old party associates. She was banished as soon as other dignitaries of the Reich, such as cabinet ministers, appeared at the table .. Hitler obviously regarded her as socially acceptable only within strict limits. Sometimes I kept her company in her exile, a room next to Hitler's bedroom. She was so intimidated that she did not dare leave the house for a walk. Out of sympathy for her predicament I soon began to feel a liking for this unhappy woman, who was so deeply attached to Hitler.

For most of World War II, Braun lived a life of leisure spending her time exercising, reading romance novels, watching films while waiting for Hitler to summon her at which time she would go on picnics and host dinner parties.

In early April 1945 she joined Hitler at the Führerbunker in Berlin. After she refused to leave as the Red Army closed in Hitler married her on April 29, 1945 and they committed suicide together the next day, she by taking cyanide capsule. Both of their corpses were burned with gasoline in the Reich Chancellery garden. Their charred remains were later discovered by the Russians and moved to Moscow. The KGB reports that their bodies were moved frequently and were buried in the 1960s at the KGB's compound in Magdeburg, East Germany before being exhumed in 1970 and completely cremated with the ashes being dispersed. See also Hitler's death

The rest of Eva Braun's family survived the war. Her mother, Franziska died aged 96 in January 1976 having lived out her days in an old farmhouse in Ruhpolding, Bavaria.


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