Not to be confused with Ewa Braun, a Polish producer and designer.
For the Serbian pop rock band, see Eva Braun (band). For the German writer born Eva Braun, see Eva Strittmatter.
Eva Braun
Braun in 1942 at the Berghof
Born
Eva Anna Paula Braun
(1912-02-06)6 February 1912
Munich, Bavaria, German Empire
Died
30 April 1945(1945-04-30) (aged 33)
Berlin, Nazi Germany
Cause of death
Suicide by cyanide poisoning
Other names
Eva Hitler
Occupation(s)
Photographer; office and lab assistant at photography studio of Heinrich Hoffmann
Known for
Partner and wife of Adolf Hitler
Spouse
Adolf Hitler
(m. 1945; died 1945)
Relatives
Ilse Braun (sister)
Gretl Braun (sister)
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Eva Anna Paula Hitler (née Braun; 6 February 1912 – 30 April 1945) was a German photographer who was the longtime companion and briefly the wife of Adolf Hitler. 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, Braun was a part of Hitler's household at the Berghof near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany, and lived a sheltered life throughout World War II. She became a significant figure within Hitler's inner social circle, but did not attend public events with him until mid-1944, when her sister Gretl married Hermann Fegelein, the SS liaison officer on his staff.
As Nazi Germany was collapsing towards the end of the war, Braun swore loyalty to Hitler and went to Berlin to be by his side in the heavily reinforced Führerbunker beneath the Reich Chancellery garden. As Red Army troops fought their way into the centre government district, on 29 April 1945, Braun married Hitler during a brief civil ceremony; she was 33 and he was 56. Less than 40 hours later, they died by suicide in a sitting room of the bunker: Braun by biting and swallowing a capsule of cyanide, and Hitler by a gunshot to the head. The German public was unaware of Braun's relationship with Hitler until after their deaths. Many of the surviving colour photographs and films of Hitler were taken by Braun.
Eva Anna Paula Hitler (née Braun; 6 February 1912 – 30 April 1945) was a German photographer who was the longtime companion and briefly the wife of Adolf...
"Gretl" Berlinghoff (née Braun; German: [ˈɡʁeːtl̩ ˈbʁaʊn]; 31 August 1915 – 10 October 1987) was one of the two sisters of EvaBraun. She was a member of...
Ilse Braun (18 June 1909 – 28 June 1979) was one of two sisters of EvaBraun. Born in Munich, Ilse was the oldest daughter of school teacher Friedrich...
(1908–1931), niece Gretl Braun (1915–1987), sister-in-law through Hitler's marriage to EvaBraun Heinz Hitler (1920–1942), nephew Ilse Braun (1909–1979), sister-in-law...
book gives details of the purported Soviet autopsies of Adolf Hitler, EvaBraun, Joseph and Magda Goebbels, their children, and General Hans Krebs. Each...
the Battle of Berlin, which led to the end of World War II in Europe. EvaBraun, his wife of one day, also committed suicide by cyanide poisoning. In...
to Hitler's secretary Traudl Junge, this affection was not shared by EvaBraun, Hitler's companion, who preferred her two Scottish Terrier dogs named...
Konecky & Konecky. ISBN 978-1-56852-036-0. Görtemaker, Heike B. (2011). EvaBraun: Life with Hitler. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-307-59582-9....
the German army. On 29 April 1945, he married his long-term partner, EvaBraun, in the Führerbunker in Berlin. On the following day, the couple committed...
on 29 April 1945, the day before he committed suicide with his wife, EvaBraun. The political testament was in two parts. In the first, Mein politisches...
been left behind. Two days before committing suicide on 30 April with EvaBraun, Hitler confided his suicide plan to Linge. He asked Linge to have their...
responsible for the Holocaust. She had also told them that she had met EvaBraun only once. After her debriefing, Paula was released from American custody...
Germany. He was a member of Adolf Hitler's entourage and brother-in-law to EvaBraun through his marriage to her sister Gretl. Fegelein joined a cavalry regiment...
Geli's death, but she strongly disapproved of Hitler's relationship with EvaBraun. She eventually left Berchtesgaden as a result and moved to Dresden. On...
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garden behind the Reich Chancellery, where the remains of Hitler and EvaBraun were burned. Kempka was born on 16 September 1910 in Oberhausen to a coal...
describes anything but Hitler." Ian Kershaw describes the corpses of EvaBraun and Hitler as being fully burned when the Red Army found them, with only...
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