Eva Braun

Every since I can remember the word mistress had been attached to Eva Braun, is it a world wide conspiracy to belittle her as a woman and as the woman AH loved and married! We know very little about the gracious woman Adolf Hitler loved, so hopefully we can educate you the reader about this Aryan Sister.


Eva Braun was born in Munich, the daughter of a schoolteacher. Of middle-class Catholic background, she first met Hitler in the studio of his photographer friend, Heinrich Hoffmann in 1929, describing him to her sister, Ilse, as "a gentleman of a certain age with a funny moustache and carrying a big felt hat." J At that time Eva Braun still worked for Hoffmann as an office assistant, later becoming a photo laboratory worker, helping to process pictures of Hitler. Young Eva was an athletic girl, fond of skiing, mountain climbing and gymnastics as well as dancing.


After the death of Hitler�s niece Geli Raubal, Eva became his girlfriend, she, moved into his Munich flat, in spite of the opposition of her father who disliked the association on political and personal grounds. In 1935, after an abortive suicide attempt, Hitler bought her a villa in a Munich suburb, near to his own home, providing her with a Mercedes and a chauffeur for personal use. In his first will of 2 May 1938 he put her at the top of his personal bequests - in the event of his death she was to receive the equivalent of �600 a year for the rest of her life. Her loyalty to Hitler never flagged. After he survived the July 1944 plot she wrote Hitler an emotional letter, ending: "From our first meeting I swore to follow you anywhere--even unto death--I live only for your love."


In April 1945 she joined Hitler in the Fuhrerbunker, as the Russians closed in on Berlin. She declined to leave in spite of his orders, claiming to others that she was the only person still loyal to him to the bitter end. "Better that ten thousand others die than he be lost to Germany," she would constantly repeat to friends.


She died in 1945 next to the man she loved, shortly after they married in his Berlin bunker as the Allies closed in. Information on Eva Braun is hard to come by, but one of her most admirable qualities was her undying loyalty to the man she loved, we all know that is a very rare quality, and if a person can love so much that she will give up her life for you, then any sacrifices you have made were not in vain.


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