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Eva Braun

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Eva Braun was the longtime companion of Adolf Hitler and, for less than 40 hours, his wife. Braun met Hitler in Munich when she was a 17-year-old assistant and model for his personal photographer Heinrich Hoffmann. She began seeing Hitler often about two years later. She attempted suicide twice during their early relationship. By 1936, she was a part of his household at the Berghof near Berchtesgaden and lived a sheltered life throughout World War II. Braun was a photographer, and she took many of the surviving color photographs and films of Hitler. She was a key figure within Hitler's inner social circle, but did not attend public events with him until mid-1944.

As Nazi Germany was collapsing towards the end of the war, Eva Braun swore loyalty to Hitler and went to Berlin to be by his side in the heavily reinforced Führerbunker beneath the Reich Chancellery. As Red Army troops fought their way into the neighborhood on 29 April 1945, she married Hitler during a brief civil ceremony; she was 33 and he was 56. Less than 40 hours later, they committed suicide together in a sitting room of the bunker, she by biting into a capsule of cyanide, and he by a gunshot to the head. The German public was unaware of Braun's relationship with Hitler until after their deaths.
- IMDb mini biography by: Tango Papa

She met Adolf Hitler in 1929 while working as a lab technician at his photographer Heinrich Hoffmann's shop.
Sister of Ilse Braun and Gretl Braun. Two hours after he ordered Gretl's husband, Hermann Fegelein, shot over Eva's objections, Hitler married Eva. They committed suicide less than 40 hours later. Gretl gave birth to her and Fegelein's daughter, whom she named Eva, on May 5, 1945. Eva committed suicide on April 25, 1971 after her boyfriend was killed in an auto accident.
She and Adolf Hitler rarely appeared in public together and few Germans knew of her existence. Even his closest associates were not certain of the exact nature of their relationship. She was indifferent to politics, keeping her distance from Hitler's intimates. When important political guests came to visit, she was banished to her room. She spent most of her time exercising, reading novelettes, watching romantic films and concerning herself with her appearance.
Loyal to the bitter end, she refused to obey Adolf Hitler's orders to leave the Führerbunker as the Russians closed in on Berlin. The rest of her family survived the war.
Became Adolf Hitler's mistress after the death of Geli Raubal, despite her father's opposition (a 1944 letter from Hitler to Eva indicates that her parents eventually did accept him and the relationship). In 1935 Hitler bought her a villa and provided her with a Mercedes and a chauffeur. In his first will he bequeath her the equivalent of £600 a year for the rest of her life.

[(quote from an actually unauthenticated letter) about Adolf Hitler] From our first meeting I swore to follow him anywhere--even unto death. I live only for his love.
[to a friend while Adolf Hitler was away] The Berghof is my golden cage.

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