Eva Braun was Adolf Hitler's mistress for 13 years, and was his wife for just over a day. Eva began to meet regularly with Hitler back in 1930, causing great concern to his then mistress (who was also his niece) Geli Raubal. In September 1931, after another quarrel with Hitler, Geli committed suicide. Hitler grieved terribly over her death (there were rumors that the 23-year-old niece-lover was expecting a child), weapons were hidden from him, because he also tried to commit suicide. But still, less than six months later, Eva Braun successfully took the place of Geli, and life continued.
Eva Braun was very fond of photography, and many of the photographs of Hitler that have come down to us were taken by her personally. We offer you to look at some pictures from her personal archive, which was confiscated by the US military in 1945 and now belongs to the collector Reinhard Schultz.
(Total 30 photos)
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1. Eva Braun is boating on Lake Worthy.
2. Eva Braun was born on February 6, 1912 in the family of the Munich schoolteacher Friedrich Braun. Eva was the middle of his three daughters. The family adhered to strict Catholic traditions. At that time, the Brown family was considered very well off: they could afford a maid, as well as their own car.
Eva Braun graduated from the lyceum, and then another year she studied at the school at the monastery, where she was considered an average student and a talented athlete. Eva Braun devoted more than one year to athletics and was even a member of the Swabian sports union. At the age of 17, Eva got a job in a photography studio owned by photographer Heinrich Hoffmann, the official photographer of the German Nazi Party. Thanks to this work, she met Hitler, who was 23 years older than her. This meeting took place in a Munich studio in October 1929. Hitler was introduced to Eve as "Herr Wolff" (this nickname Hitler used in the 1920s for conspiracy). By 1931, Eva Braun and Hitler had already been linked strong relationship, although Eve's family strongly objected to this.
3. This picture was taken in 1942 at the Berghof, Hitler's Alpine residence. Eva Braun and Hitler often met at the Berghof, and she took many pictures here. The residence was guarded by an SS team, and in 1944 there were almost 2,000 people in the guard detachment. This magnificent residence was completely destroyed during the bombing on April 25, 1945, shortly before the suicide of Hitler and Eva Braun. The ruins of the Berghof existed until 1952. The Bavarian government ordered their final demolition on April 30, 1952.
4. Negus and Coil - two Scottish terriers owned by Eva Braun and Hitler. Hitler also had a shepherd dog, Blondie. Eva Braun just couldn't stand this dog.
5. Eva does gymnastic exercises on the shores of Lake Königssee, which is still considered the cleanest lake in Germany today.
6. Eva Braun is filming with a 16mm camera. Today, photographs and newsreels taken by her are of great value to historians.
7. Eva Braun poses with Albert Speer, architect and Reich Minister for Armaments and War Industry. Speer belonged to the Führer's closest circle of people. Under his leadership, NSDAP facilities were rebuilt, festive demonstrations and solemn processions were organized. Speer was the author of the master plan for the reconstruction of Berlin, which, according to Hitler's plans, was to become the capital of the whole world.
During the Nuremberg Trials, Albert Speer was charged with using prisoner slave labor. Speer pleaded guilty and received 20 years in prison. Speer had to serve the entire term, and he was released only on September 30, 1966. In prison, he wrote the book "Memoirs", which was a huge success. He later published several more books. Albert Speer died on September 1, 1981, while in London.
8. 1940, Lake Königssee. Hitler was very annoyed by many of Eva Braun's habits: smoking, heavy use of cosmetics and the habit of sunbathing without a swimsuit. Hitler forbade smoking in his presence.
9. 1940 Eva Braun with an umbrella.
10. New Year's celebration at the Berghof.
11. Eva Braun was a big fan of American films. In this photograph, taken in 1937, she portrays Al Johnson (the picture is titled “I am Al Johnson”) starring in the first sound film, The Jazz Singer, which surpassed the best silent films in its success.
12. Eva Braun with her younger sister Margaret. 1943
13. Eva Braun and one of Hitler's dogs. 1943
14. 1931 Hitler with a security guard at his residence. On the back of this photograph, Eva Braun's handwritten inscription has been preserved: "This is the first visit to Berchtesgaden."
15 April 1943 Hitler celebrates his 54th birthday at his Alpine residence. Next to Eva Braun (she is on the far left in the picture), Greta Schneider, Eva's friend, is visible.
16. Hitler and Greta Schneider's daughter Ursula. Photo taken at Hitler's residence in the Bavarian Alps in 1942.
17. Eva Braun at Hitler's residence at the Berghof, 1940.
18. Photo workshop of Heinrich Hoffmann in Munich, 1938. It was in this workshop that Eva Braun first met Hitler.
19. In the workshop of Heinrich Hoffmann, 1938.
20. Bavarian Alps, 1935 Eva Braun posing with friends.
21. Vacation with friends in Godesberg (pictured Eva Braun on the left), 1937.
22. Carnival in the family circle (pictured Eva Braun in the depth on the right, in the center - her mother Franziska Katharina Braun), Munich, 1938.
Recently published personal photographs of Eva Braun from her own photo albums reveal to us a new side of a woman who for a long time was Hitler's mistress, and in the last hours of her life became his wife. Braun became central to Hitler's life after the 1931 suicide of Geli Raubal, the future Fuhrer's twenty-three-year-old niece, who was also rumored to be his mistress. Surprisingly, in Eva Braun, unpretentiousness, vanity and frivolity were combined in an incomprehensible way. These qualities suited a former model, but not the girlfriend of a Nazi leader and a personality central to the darkest chapters of twentieth-century history. The collection of unique photographs that we present to you is part of an archive confiscated by the US military in 1945 and presented to the world by collector Reinhard Schultz.
1. In the photo - Eva Braun in a boat on Lake Worthy.
2. Eva was born into a respectable Bavarian Catholic family, where she was the second daughter. At the age of 17, she began working as a model for the photographer Heinrich Hoffmann (pictured left), the official photographer of the Reich. Through her work, she met “Herr Wolf,” a man with a “funny mustache,” who turned out to be Adolf Hitler himself. By 1931, Hitler and Braun had a relationship, and Hitler had already managed to become the leader of the Nazi Party in Germany. Eva's sister, Gretti, married Hermann Fegelein, an SS general. She managed to survive the war, but her husband did not. He is said to have been executed by Hitler's personal order in 1945. Pictured below: Hoffmann, Hitler and Eva Braun at Hitler's residence at the Berghof, Germany, 1942. Hitler and Brown are looking at photographs of Hoffmann.
3. In this photograph, Eva Braun sits on the terrace of the Berghof, Hitler's residence in the Alps in 1942. She really liked to be photographed, she took many ordinary everyday photographs during her stay at the Berghof. Did she imagine that this idyll would not last long? In 1945, when the Russians and German troops agreed in the confrontation for Berlin, it became clear that the Allied forces would win the war. Tens of thousands of people died these days, but two deaths stand apart - the deaths of Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler. Eva Braun ended her life in a dirty underground bunker on April 30, 1945, biting through an ampoule of cyanide, at the age of 33, after fifty-six-year-old Hitler shot himself in the same bunker. It was the end of the Third Reich.
4. Scottish Terriers of Hitler and Brown, Negus and Coil, 1942. The coil was also called Stacy. Brown could not stand the shepherd dog of Hitler himself, named Blondie, who often climbed into his bed.
5. Eve in a bathing suit makes a bridge on Lake Königssee, a few miles from Hitler's residence.
6. Behind the camera. Brown with her 16 mm camera, 1942. On color film, she shot footage of a film about Hitler and his entourage, which later turned out to be of great value to historians.
7. Hand in hand with Hitler's architect. In this photo, Eva Braun with Hitler's architect Albert Speer. It was he who was responsible for the restructuring of the Reich Chancellery and the headquarters of the NSDAP in Munich. In addition, Speer served as Minister of Armaments and War Industry of Germany. During the Nuremberg trials, he was sentenced to 20 years, unlike his associates, most of whom were sentenced to death. He died in 1981 in London. His memoirs became an international bestseller.
8. Hitler disapproved of Eve's love of skinny-dipping and sunbathing, as well as her addiction to smoking and excessive use of cosmetics. Eva Braun on Lake Königssee in 1940.
9. Eva with an umbrella, 1940
10. Celebrating the New Year at the Berghof residence. Among Hitler's guests are the founding fathers of the Third Reich.
11. This photograph of Eva Braun was taken in 1937 and is titled "I am Al Johnson." She is disguised as an American actor and singer from the movie The Jazz Singer. Brown was very fond of American cinema, including Gone with the Wind.
12. Eva Braun (left) and her younger sister Margaret (Grety), 1943
13. Brown and Hitler's dog, 1943
14. On the back of a photograph of Hitler with a bodyguard in a residence in the mountains in 1931, Eva Braun wrote: "This is the first visit to Berchtesgaden."
15. Hitler's fifty-fourth birthday, the Fuhrer's Alpine residence, April 1943. Eva is on the far left, behind her is her close friend, Herta Schneider.
16. Hitler with Ursula ("Ears") Schneider, daughter of Hertha Schneider, childhood friend Eva Braun, at Hitler's residence in the Bavarian Alps, 1942.
17. Eva in a bathing suit near Berchtesgaden, Germany, 1940.
18. Eva Braun first met Adolf Hitler in Heinrich Hoffmann's photography studio in 1929. The photo shows the windows of the Hoffmann workshop in Munich, in which portraits of the Fuhrer are exhibited.
19. Photo Studio of Heinrich Hoffmann, Munich, Germany, 1938.
20. Eva Braun and a bear. Eva Braun with friends in the Bavarian Alps, Germany, 1935
21. Eva Braun (left) and her friends on vacation in Godesberg, Germany, 1937.
22. Eva Braun (far right) at a carnival in her parents' house in Munich, Germany, 1938. In the center is Braun's mother Franziska Katharina and her sisters Ilsa and Margarita.
23. Brown family. Eva Braun (right) with her parents, Friedrich and Franziska, and sisters Ilse (left) and Gretti, 1940
24. Eve is a teenager. Eva Braun sits on a table in the living room of her parents' house in Munich, Germany, 1929. She lived with her parents after completing her studies at a trade school, in the same year, a little later, she met Hitler at Hoffmann's photography workshop.
25. Eva Braun with an unknown friend at a party in Munich. Brown was very fond of parties and socializing. She also loved to smoke, but only when Hitler was not around.
29. “My first fancy dress,” Eva Braun captioned this 1928 photograph.
30. The owner of the house. Portrait of Adolf Hitler in Eva Braun's living room at the Berghof, Hitler's residence near Berchtesgaden, Germany, 1937.
Charming Eva Braun for 13 years was the mistress of Adolf Hitler and a little more than a day the official wife of the Fuhrer. Photographs from the personal archive of the most famous couple of Nazi Germany, which were taken by Eva Braun, who was very fond of photographing, have survived to this day. It is very interesting to look at these photos even today.
Eva Braun was born in 1912 in Munich. Her father was school teacher. The family brought up three daughters, Eva is the middle one. The Brown family was very wealthy: they kept a maid and had their own car.
Eva was educated at the Lyceum, and then spent another year at the monastery school. She did not differ in academic success, but she was a good athlete, she was engaged in athletics for more than one year and even became a member of the Swabian sports union.
At the age of 17, Eva got a job in the photography studio of Heinrich Hoffmann, who was at that time the official photographer of the Nazi Party in Germany. This place of work became fateful for her - in a photo studio she met Hitler, who was 23 years older than Eva.
The meeting of Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler took place in October 1929 in a Munich photo studio. Eva was introduced to Hitler as "Herr Wolf". The future Fuhrer used this nickname in the 1920s for conspiracy. Two years later, Hitler and Eva Braun had a strong relationship, despite the fact that the girl's family was categorically against this relationship.
This photo was taken at Hitler's Alpine residence at the Berghof in 1942. Here, Eva and Hitler met quite often, and many pictures were taken there. It is known that the residence was guarded by an SS team. In 1944, there were about 2,000 people in the detachment.
During the bombing on April 25, 1945, shortly before the suicide of the Fuhrer and Eva, who became his wife, this magnificent residence was completely destroyed. The ruins of the Berghof existed until 1952, and then the Bavarian government decided to finally demolish them.
Eva Braun with architect and Reich Minister for Armaments and War Industry Albert Speer. Speer was one of the Führer's closest circle of people. He led projects for the restructuring of the NSDAP facilities, under his leadership solemn processions and festive demonstrations were organized. Speer is the author of the master plan for the reconstruction of Berlin. According to Hitler's plans, the capital of Germany was to become the capital of the world.
At the Nuremberg trials, Albert Speer was charged with using the slave labor of concentration camp prisoners. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Speer served the entire term and was released on September 30, 1966. In prison, he wrote the book "Memoirs", and later several more books. Albert Speer died on September 1, 1981 in London.
It is worth noting that Hitler was annoyed by many of his girlfriend's habits. He could not stand the intensive use of cosmetics, had a negative attitude towards Eve's habit of sunbathing without a swimsuit and forbade her to smoke.
Recently published personal photographs of Eva Braun from her own photo albums reveal to us a new side of a woman who for a long time was Hitler's mistress, and in the last hours of her life became his wife. Braun became central to Hitler's life after the 1931 suicide of Geli Raubal, the future Fuhrer's twenty-three-year-old niece, who was also rumored to be his mistress.
The collection of unique photographs is part of an archive confiscated by the US military in 1945 and made public by collector Reinhard Schultz.
Eva Braun is filming with a 16mm camera. Today, photographs and newsreels taken by her are of great value to historians.
Eva was born into a respectable Bavarian Catholic family, where she was the second daughter. At the age of 17, she began working as a model for the photographer Heinrich Hoffmann (pictured left), the official photographer of the Reich. Through her work, she met “Herr Wolf,” a man with a “funny mustache,” who turned out to be Adolf Hitler himself. By 1931, Hitler and Braun had a relationship, and Hitler had already managed to become the leader of the Nazi Party in Germany. Eva's sister, Gretti, married Hermann Fegelein, an SS general. She managed to survive the war, but her husband did not. He is said to have been executed by Hitler's personal order in 1945. Pictured: Hoffmann, Hitler and Eva Braun at Hitler's residence in the Berghof, Germany, 1942. Hitler and Brown are looking at photographs of Hoffmann.
At Hitler's Alpine residence at the Berghof in 1942. Eva Braun and Hitler often met at the Berghof, and she took many pictures here. The residence was guarded by an SS team, and in 1944 there were almost 2,000 people in the guard detachment. This magnificent residence was completely destroyed during the bombing on April 25, 1945, shortly before the suicide of Hitler and Eva Braun.
Giler on a walk with his dog.
Two Scottish Terriers owned by Eva Braun and Hitler. Hitler also had a shepherd dog, Blondie. Eva simply could not stand this dog.
At dinner.
Afternoon nap.
There are many touching pictures of Hitler with children, which were sometimes used by Nazi propaganda to promote the Fuhrer.
Hitler and Eva's niece Ursula. Photo taken at Hitler's residence in the Bavarian Alps in 1942
Based on these pictures, it can be assumed that Hitler really loved children. As you can see, the first impression of a person from a photograph can be deceptive, and psychology is not as simple as it seems.
Eva with her niece
Eva with Albert Speer, architect and Reich Minister for Armaments and War Industry. Speer belonged to the Führer's closest circle of people. Under his leadership, NSDAP facilities were rebuilt, festive demonstrations and solemn processions were organized. Speer was the author of the master plan for the reconstruction of Berlin, which, according to Hitler's plans, was to become the capital of the whole world. During Nuremberg Trials Albert Speer was charged with using the slave labor of concentration camp prisoners. Speer pleaded guilty and received 20 years in prison. Speer had to serve the entire term, and he was released only on September 30, 1966. In prison, he wrote the book "Memoirs", which was a great success. He later published several more books.
Eve is boating on Lake Worthy
Eva at Hitler's residence at the Berghof, 1940 Hitler was very annoyed by many of Eva Braun's habits: smoking, heavy use of cosmetics and the habit of sunbathing without a swimsuit. In his presence, he forbade smoking. As you know, Hitler did not drink, did not smoke and was a vegetarian.
Eva does gymnastics on the shores of Lake Königssee, not far from her residence in the Berghof, which is still considered the cleanest lake in Germany today.
Pupils of the monastery school Beilingris, 1922. Eva Braun is pictured second from the right.
Munich, 1929 It was in this year, when she was only 17 years old, that Eva met Hitler. The picture was taken in the living room of the Munich apartment of the Brown family.
Eva Braun's family - father Friedrich Braun, mother Franziska Braun, Eva, sisters Ilse and Margaret. 1940
Eva with her younger sister Margaret. 1943
Carnival in the family circle (pictured Eva Braun in the depth on the right, in the center - her mother Franziska Katharina Braun), Munich, 1938.
Holidays with friends in Godesberg (pictured Eva Braun on the left), 1937
Bavarian Alps, 1935. Eva with friends
Eva with one of her friends during a party. She loved to have fun. She also liked to smoke, but she could only afford it in the absence of Hitler.
Eva Braun was a big fan of American films. In this photograph, taken in 1937, she portrays Al Johnson (the picture is titled “I am Al Johnson”) starring in the first sound film, The Jazz Singer, which surpassed the best silent films in its success.
New Year's Eve at the Berghof. Tellingly, in group photos, Hitler tends to be unemotional or sullen, even when everyone else is in high spirits.
Hitler at someone's wedding. He reminds me of someone...
April, 1943 Hitler celebrates his 54th birthday at his Alpine residence. Eve is on the far left.
Photography workshop of Heinrich Hoffmann in Munich, 1938. It was in this workshop that Eva met Hitler.
Eva Braun with her older sister Ilse. Ilsa was 4 years older than Eva. In 1935, Ilse saved Eva when she tried to commit suicide by taking a lethal dose of sleeping pills. Finding her sister unconscious, Ilse called the doctor.
Childhood pure little eyes - Hitler in infancy.
Eva Braun's living room corner at Hitler's Berghof residence, 1937
Many pictures of the Fuhrer, especially at home, were taken by her. Not much is known about Eve herself. We present to your attention a small photo story about Eva Braun, which also contains rare photographs shown to the public just now.
Eva Braun was born on February 6, 1912 in Munich into a wealthy family of a despot teacher and a dressmaker. Eva also had two sisters. Despite the harsh upbringing, Eve had a kind and sympathetic character.
In her youth, she was involved in athletics, studied at the Institute of English Frauleins, studied French, typing, accounting and home economics.
In 1929, Eva completed her studies and returned home, where she got a job under the patronage of her father in the photo studio of Heinrich Hoffmann. In the same year, she met Hitler, who once went into the studio for a photo shoot. She was 17, he was 40.
At that time, Hitler met with Geli Raubal, but Eva immediately attracted the attention of Hitler and he began to drop in more and more often. During the day they go to the cinema and cafes, but in the evening he always goes to Geli's. Eva was very worried about this. However, on September 8, 1931, after a quarrel with Hitler, Geli commits suicide. After almost six months of depression, Hitler returns to life, and Eva becomes his only (and last) mistress.
With Hitler, Eva blossoms. He begins to take care of himself more, puts more emphasis on sports and, knowing about Hitler's love for large busts, even puts handkerchiefs on himself at first.
However, according to historians, Eve sometimes lacked the attention of Adolf. As a result, on November 1, 1932, she makes her first suicide attempt by shooting in the neck, but got off with a fright. Three years later, on the night of May 28-29, 1935, she tries to swallow pills, but the suicide attempt again fails because of her sister who arrived on time.
Since 1936, Eva has been inseparably near Hitler, as a mistress and personal secretary. Without losing interest in photography, she often photographs Adolf and his entourage in an informal setting. She spends most of her remaining 9 years in residence at the Berghof.
Since Hitler could not spend all his time at the Berghof, Eva often stayed by herself. As the photos published just now show, she had a rather defiant behavior. So, in some pictures, Eva is captured in situations that could bring Hitler to hysterics. The Fuhrer's mistress poses in one bathing suit, smokes, makes up "like a black man", and in one of the photographs she is generally depicted naked, hiding behind only an umbrella.
Be that as it may, but after the assassination attempt on Hitler in 1943, Eve swore an oath to stay with him until her last breath. She kept her promise, and since March 7, 1945, she has been constantly in Berlin.
April 29, 1945, in the presence of Martin Bormann and Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun entered into a legal marriage.
On April 30, after saying goodbye to all those present and closing themselves in a room, the Hitler spouses committed suicide. Their bodies were doused with gasoline and burned. According to the official version, the corpses did not burn completely and were seized Soviet troops. After 25 years, in April 1970, the corpses were finally destroyed.
Many historians consider Eva Braun just an eccentric fool. Who she really was, no one will ever know. Hitler's last mistress, about whom they did not know anything for a long time, and after that they considered nothing more than a secretary, took her secret with her.
