Name: Eva Anna Paula Brown
State: Germany
Field of activity: Policy
Greatest Achievement: Became the wife of Adolf Hitler
There is probably no person who has not heard of Adolf Hitler. His name has become a household name, denoting absolute evil. It would seem that everything is known about him. But still no. Some details of his life were hidden from prying eyes, and we can only guess what happened behind the closed doors of the Fuhrer's bunkers and personal estates.
And the big question is the relationship with his last lover, who shared his tragic fate, Eva Braun. In this article we will look in more detail at who she is and how she met the Fuhrer.
early years
Eva Anna Paula Braun was born on February 6, 1912 in Munich. She was the second of three daughters of teacher Fritz Braun and dressmaker Franziska Braun. Despite the modest work of the parents, the family was “Aryan”, that is, purebred (as we remember from the school history course, they paid a lot of attention to the purity of blood; the “Aryan” nation was supposed to dominate everyone). The family adhered to the Catholic religion.
During the first years of Eva’s life, the parents either converged or diverged - this was also facilitated by the fact that her father volunteered. During his absence, the mother raised three daughters alone and lost the habit of having a man's shoulder nearby. Then, after the defeat of Germany, a crisis arose in the country, and the parents reunited - not so much because of great love, but because of the desire to survive. After all, there was no work, inflation swallowed everything up.
The enterprising father started his own business and soon became rich. Despite her good financial situation, little Eva was not happy in a home where her parents did not love each other. The father was also a domestic tyrant, and the mother was too soft a woman to contradict him. However, they spared nothing for their daughters; all the girls received a good education. Eva studied at an elementary school at a monastery, then at a lyceum and finally at the Institute for Noble Maidens, where she mastered typing and French (though she spoke it poorly). Upon graduation, she returned to her native Munich and, with the help of her parents’ patronage, got a job as an assistant in Heinrich Hoffmann’s photo studio.
Beginning of a career and meeting Hitler
The boss described Eva as follows: “She had blond hair, cut short, blue eyes, and despite her convent upbringing, she knew various feminine tricks to attract the attention of men - swaying her hips, looking at her to make men turn around.”
Let us mention that at that time for a woman to get an education, especially a professional one, was simply an impossible task. But Eva always lived in defiance, she even wore her makeup differently from all German girls, as if challenging fate itself. And, like any young girl, Eva dreamed of meeting this very fate, her great love. And she was not slow to appear.
Just a few weeks after starting work at the photo studio (where Eva worked part-time as a model for Hoffman), she met a man there who would influence the rest of her life. On the counter where Eva gave photographs to clients, there were also photographs of members of the NSDAP party, but she had no idea who they were. However, the young girl fell into the man’s soul. He began to come to the studio more often, bringing her small gifts. Eva received them favorably and did not even wonder who the admirer was in front of her, until her boss Goffman revealed the secret - it was himself, the leader of the party!
Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler
From that moment on, Eva realized that this was her chance. Her love. Her destiny. Hitler, meanwhile, was checking the origins of his new acquaintance to see if she would suit him. She was coming. In all respects.
However, it cannot be said that there were any strong feelings on the part of the Fuhrer; on the contrary, until 1932 their relationship did not go beyond platonic. In addition, Adolf was very attached to Geli Raubal, the daughter of his half-sister Angela Raubal. This passion was so all-consuming that Hitler hardly paid attention to other women (looking ahead, we note that Hitler’s secretary admitted that the only woman the Fuhrer loved in his life was Geli, but only the participants themselves know whether this is true or not stories). They had a big age difference - 19 years, but this did not stop them from starting a romance, which was very stormy. Eva Braun, in fact, was destined for the farthest place in this triangle. But she was in love with Hitler and wanted to have him completely.
On September 18, 1931, she had a chance - Geli Raubal committed suicide, jealous of her uncle for Eva. Hitler himself did not leave his house for several days, refusing food and water. The servants hid all the weapons out of harm's way. In fact, Hitler began dating Eva back in 1930, and Geli found out about it. The ending of the story is known.
What about Eve? She admitted to all her friends (although it was not customary to gossip in their family) that Hitler loved her, and she would definitely ensure that he married her. However, Hitler was completely passionate about politics, and fully love relationship He didn't have time with Eve. However, witnesses claim that their platonic romance ended in 1932 and grew into something more.
Their relationship was like a roller coaster - sometimes all the days and months together, then he disappears without saying a word. In addition, they met secretly, no one knew about their romance except the Fuhrer’s closest circle. Adolf often paid attention to other women, and Eva silently endured this.
One day she decided to commit suicide. In 1932, she made her first attempt to die - to shoot herself with her father’s pistol in her parents’ house. After this, Hitler came to the hospital to check how the girl’s recovery was going. And that was the only thing she achieved. The second time occurred in 1935, when Eva took a large dose of sleeping pills in the hope of falling asleep forever (or rather, gaining Hitler's attention).
The Fuhrer could not allow another woman to commit suicide because of him. In addition, Eva demonstrated complete loyalty, love, devotion - that is, those qualities that he valued most in ladies. He decided to have an official relationship with her, but only in private. She should not appear with him anywhere in public places. In addition, Hitler refused to marry Eva, because marriage imposed certain obligations, where it was better to just have a mistress. Eve had to agree.
Death of Eva Braun
Having received the status of the Fuhrer's mistress, Eva Braun became a hostage to her short-sightedness. Yes, she had everything - a house, a stable, high financial position. But all this is in isolation. Hitler did not want her to attend official meetings. She endured.
At the end of the war, it became clear that Germany would lose. And Hitler gives the girl the order not to appear in the capital. But can anything in the world stop a woman in love? Eva goes to Berlin and meets Hitler. It is then that he realizes that this is really his woman. Eva receives a marriage proposal. But, unfortunately, the wedding day was the last in Eva Braun's life. On April 30, 1945, the couple committed suicide.
Perhaps to some the story will seem like a fairy tale about Cinderella, who finally met her prince and waited for the wedding bells to ring. But more than anything, this is a story about an unhappy woman who devoted her life to a tyrant and murderer, knew about all his crimes, but still loved him. Passionately and selflessly. So much so that she decided to leave with him. And not everyone can do this.
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Eva Anna Paula Brown(German: Eva Anna Paula Braun, married Eva Hitler(German: Eva Hitler); February 6, Munich - April 30, Berlin) - cohabitant of Adolf Hitler, since April 29, 1945 - his legal wife.
Biography
Family
Eva Braun was born into a Munich petty-bourgeois family. Father Fritz Braun served as a teacher at a vocational school, mother Francis Katharina, née Kronberger, the daughter of a veterinarian, worked as a dressmaker at a Munich textile factory before her marriage. Eva had an older sister, Ilsa, and a younger sister, Gretl. All three daughters were baptized and raised according to Catholic custom.
In 1914, Fritz Braun volunteered for the front, served in Serbia, and then until the end of April 1919 - in a military hospital in Würzburg. Franziska Brown survived the war alone with three children. After eleven years of marriage, the Browns separated in 1919, and on April 3, 1921, official divorce, the daughters remained in the care of their mother. The family broke up, presumably due to the mutual alienation of the spouses over the years of living apart. However, the Browns' separation was short-lived, and on November 16, 1922, they remarried. Maybe, family union held together by post-war famine and hyperinflation, forcing the Browns to stick together to survive.
The Browns' financial position strengthened during the Golden Twenties. Fritz Braun managed to restore the family's former prosperity. The Browns moved to a large apartment in the bohemian Munich district of Schwabing at Hohenzollernstrasse 93. Thanks to the inheritance received, a few years later the family acquired a BMW 3/15 car. But happiness never returned to the Brown house. According to the recollections of Eva’s best friend Herta Ostermeyer, family relationships were joyless, so Eva spent almost all of her youth in her friend’s parental home and went on vacation to the Ostermeyer relatives in the village. Eva even called Ostermeyer's parents dad and mom. Franziska Brown, in contrast to these statements from her daughter’s friend, described her family life to journalist Nerin Gan in the most idyllic colors, arguing that Eva grew up in the healthy environment of her parents’ home, which was not overshadowed by a single shadow, “not a single quarrel.”
In 1918-1922, Eva attended public school, then studied at the Lyceum on Tengstrasse, near her home. In 1928, she was sent to study for a year in Simbach am Inn, on the very border with Austria, where a home economics school had opened a few years earlier at the traditional Catholic institute Marienhöhe. The Marienhöhe Institute was founded in 1864 by an ancient female monastic order founded by the Englishwoman Mary Ward, therefore it was known in Germany as the “Institute of English Maidens”, and was famous throughout the world for its high standards of female education. In addition to home economics, Eva Braun studied accounting and typing in Zimbach, that is, she received professional education, which at that time was rare among girls from a petty-bourgeois environment. On July 22, 1929, Eva Braun returned to her parents' home. A few months later, in September 1929, she discovered in one of the Munich newspapers an advertisement for a vacancy for an apprentice in Heinrich Hoffmann's photographic studio.
Meeting Hitler
In September 1929, 17-year-old Eva Braun got a job in the photo studio of staunch National Socialist Heinrich Hoffmann. His “NSDAP Photo House” had just moved to the center of Munich, at 25 Amalienstrasse, next to Odeonsplatz. At that time, many girls dreamed of mastering the profession of photography in order to break into the world of fashion or become famous as a portrait photographer. Eva Braun was not only fond of photography, but also enjoyed posing herself, including right in Hoffmann’s office. According to Heinrich Hoffmann, Eva Braun began as an apprentice in his darkroom, and also helped behind the counter, in the office and on small errands.
Eva Braun met Hitler at work just a few weeks later, in October 1929. According to one of the sisters, presumably Ilse Braun, Nerin Gan indicates that this meeting could have taken place “on one of the first Fridays in October.” On this day, as Hahn describes in her book, Eva Braun stayed overtime to sort out the documents. Hoffmann introduced her to “Mr. Wolf” and asked her to go to a tavern nearby for beer and sausage to treat the guest. At the table, the stranger “constantly devoured her with his eyes” and offered to give her a ride home in his Mercedes, but the girl refused. Later, Hoffmann asked Eva, who was leaving home, if she had guessed who this Mr. Wolf was? But Eva never looked at the photographic portraits of NSDAP members sold by Hoffmann and did not recognize Hitler until Hoffmann himself told her: “This is Hitler, our Adolf Hitler.”
Mutual sympathy immediately arose between Hitler and Eva Braun, and from that time on, at every visit to the photo studio, 40-year-old Hitler showered the 17-year-old girl with compliments and showed gallantry in trifling gifts: flowers, chocolates and trinkets. Sometimes Hitler invited Eva Braun to dinner or a picnic outside the city, to the cinema or opera. According to the recollections of Hoffmann's daughter Henrietta, it was difficult for Eva Braun to resist Hitler's touching compliments: “Permit me to invite you to the opera, Fraulein Eva? You see, I am always in a male circle, so I know how to appreciate the happiness of being next to a lady.” The advances of a new acquaintance made an indelible impression on the minor Eva. In 1930, Hitler instructed Bormann to verify the Aryan origins of Eva Braun's family. Until 1932, the relationship between Hitler and Braun remained platonic. Heinrich Hoffmann recalled that the girl tried in every possible way to force them and told all her girlfriends in a row that “Hitler fell in love with her and she would get him to marry her.” But Hitler had no idea about Eva's intentions and had no intention of having contact with her. In a post-war memoir published in 1955, Hoffmann described the relationship between Hitler and Braun as an "extremely unromantic acquaintance" and described it sparsely, in the most general outline.
Love relationship
At every opportunity, Hitler declared among his party comrades that he lived exclusively in politics and renounced his personal life, and did not plan to ever get married. In a personal conversation with SA Chief of Staff Otto Wagener, Hitler stated: “I have another bride - Germany! I am married - to the German people, to their destiny! […] No, I can’t get married, I don’t have the right.” According to the testimony of Hitler’s longtime comrade Franz Xaver Schwartz during interrogation in 1945, the Fuhrer lived only for work and spoke about his personal life as follows: “A woman will not get anything from me at all. I can't do this." Hitler frankly admitted to his personal adjutant Julius Schaub that he would “never get married” because he “didn’t have time for that” and was “constantly on the move.” However, the relationship between Hitler and Braun began to strengthen after 1931, although how much closer they became and how they developed is not known for certain. Schwartz believed that Hitler maintained an exclusively platonic relationship with Eva Braun. Hoffmann was convinced that Eva Braun became Hitler's mistress only many years later. Hoffmann's daughter Henriette believed that Hitler and Brown's intimate relationship began in the winter of 1931-1932. Hitler's housekeeper Annie Winter, who lived with her husband in Hitler's apartment at Prinzregentenplatz 16, confirmed Henriette Hoffmann's version. Hitler's driver Erich Kempka stated after the war that he had known Eva Braun since 1932, that is, at that time she was already among Hitler's inner circle.
The love relationship between Eva Braun and Hitler, who was completely immersed in political struggle, developed unevenly. During the 1932 election campaign, Eva followed the events and saw her secret lover mainly in propaganda materials in Hoffmann's darkroom. According to Otto Wagener, during the 1932 election campaign, Hoffmann sometimes took with him “his little laboratory assistant Eva Braun,” “whom Hitler was glad to see at the table in the evenings, to distract himself a little.” Hitler had no time for personal meetings. Even after winning the elections to the Reichstag, Hitler, who had his sights set on the position of Reich Chancellor, allowed himself only a few days of rest in Munich and Berchtesgaden. The leader of the NSDAP now spent a lot of time in Berlin, where from February 1931 he stayed opposite the Reich Chancellery in the legendary Kaiserhof Hotel at Wilhelmplatz 4. The version about Hitler’s initial agreement with his mistress about a temporary relationship without obligations is not supported by documents, but according to numerous documentary evidence, 20-year-old Eva Braun tried to commit suicide in 1932 by shooting herself with her father's pistol.
Suicide attempt
After the war, various people from Hitler's inner circle and Braun's relatives presented several versions of this suicide attempt by Eva Braun. According to the testimony of Hoffmann and Schirach, Eva shot herself on the night of August 10-11, 1932 in her parents' apartment on Hohenzollernstrasse. Hoffmann's son-in-law, Dr. Wilhelm Plate, was involved in the dramatic events, who was called by telephone at night either by Brown herself or by her boss. Hitler was forced to postpone his planned departure for Berlin when he learned of the incident, either by chance visiting Hoffmann's photographic studio or by receiving a farewell note from Eva in Obersalzberg. Having inquired from Plate about the girl’s health after being wounded, Hitler took upon himself the care of “the poor child.”
According to Ilse Braun, Nerin Gan put forward a different version of events, according to which Eva tried to commit suicide on the night of November 1–2, 1932, when her parents were away. Ilsa accidentally walked into her parents' house, where she found her bloodied sister. Eva herself called a doctor to be taken to the hospital. The bullet lodged in the neck near the carotid artery, and the doctor easily removed it. Hitler was in Berlin at that time and arrived by car in Munich the next day to, accompanied by Hoffmann, visit Eva in the hospital. He allegedly doubted the seriousness of Eva’s suicidal intentions, but after confirming with the doctor that Eva was aiming for the heart, he told Hoffmann that from now on he would take care of her so that this would not happen again.
Despite all the contradictions in the testimony, historians are unanimous in their assessment of Eva Braun’s motives for committing suicide: feeling abandoned, she purposefully tried to regain the attention of the retreating Hitler and tie him more tightly to her. Eva prudently asked for medical care not to sister Ilse’s friend Dr. Marx, but to Dr. Plata, so that Hitler would definitely and immediately learn about what had happened from his personal photographer. Just a year after the suicide of his niece Geli Raubal, during a fierce struggle for the position of Reich Chancellor in the context of the widespread cult of the Fuhrer, Hitler could not afford a new scandal in his personal life, and he had to restore order to relationships that were initially underestimated. Eva Braun took a strong place in Hitler's life. He considered this suicide attempt by Eva Braun to be the highest expression of loyalty, adoration and readiness for self-sacrifice. According to Hoffmann's memoirs, this accident showed Hitler, by his own admission, that the girl really loved him, and he had a moral responsibility to take care of her. About our own feelings The Fuhrer never spoke to Eva Braun.
The Fuhrer's semi-official mistress
In his first years in power, in 1933-1935, Hitler often visited his beloved Munich. He was not going to say goodbye to his bohemian lifestyle in Bavaria and during 1933 he bought out the previously rented apartment on Prinzregentenplatz and a small Vacation home Wachenfeld in Obersalzburg. In his diary, Goebbels complained that despite the height of the election campaign in the spring of 1933, Hitler did not even spend 10-14 days in a row in Berlin. According to the housekeeper, every time Hitler came to Munich, Eva Braun appeared in the apartment on Prinzregentenplatz. Sometimes she returned to her place late at night, sometimes she stayed overnight in Hitler’s apartment. According to the memoirs of adjutant Nikolaus von Belov, Eva Braun established constant contact with Hitler’s housekeeper, and she immediately notified her mistress of Hitler’s arrival home by telephone. In Munich, the Fuhrer took his mistress to dine at the Osteria Bavaria restaurant, and sometimes invited him to his place outside the city. Then, according to the official version for her parents, Eva with a suitcase went on a business trip on behalf of the Hoffmann Photo House and secretly got into the Mercedes sent by Hitler, which was waiting for her on Türkenstrasse, a few meters from Hoffmann’s photo studio. Speer recalled that for camouflage purposes, a closed car with Eva Braun and two of Hitler's secretaries arrived “on the mountain” in Obersalzberg separately from Hitler’s main convoy.
Many guests usually gathered in Hitler’s modest house in Obersalzberg, but only Hitler, Braun, an adjutant and a servant stayed there overnight, and the guests were accommodated for the night in a nearby boarding house. Hitler and Brown kept an unnecessary and unnatural distance in public, even in a narrow circle where their relationship could not be hidden anyway, and late in the evening they went up to the upper chambers together. On general walks with Hitler in Obersalzberg, Eva went out only accompanied by secretaries and took a place at the very end of the column. According to Speer's recollections, Eva Braun at that time in Obersalzberg was an ordinary Munich girl, not so much beautiful as pretty and fresh, with very modest manners. According to Speer, Eva Braun was aware of the duality of her position next to Hitler and, in order to hide her embarrassment, showed restraint in communicating with his entourage, which many mistook for arrogance. In addition to Speer, in Hitler’s close circle, only personal physician Karl Brandt treated Eva Braun favorably: while captured by the Americans, he stated in his testimony that Braun “never got into the foreground” and “knew her place.”
"Diary" by Eva Braun
The relationship between Hitler and Braun is known mainly from post-war memories of those around him, about the existence personal records or letters that could shed light on this relationship or the role of Eva Braun are unknown. With the exception of letters of gratitude and congratulations, Hitler rarely entered into personal correspondence. According to secretary Christa Schröder, the Fuhrer did not write letters even during the “period of struggle” and considered this a manifestation of “his great strength.” Before committing suicide, Hitler ordered Adjutant Julius Schaub to destroy most of the personal correspondence kept in safes in the Munich apartment and at the Berghof. Johannes Göler, adjutant of Hermann Fegelein, in a conversation with the British historian David Irving, also reported that at the end of April 1945, he flew from Berlin to Berchtesgaden on Hitler’s JU 290 plane to burn Hitler’s personal correspondence stored there, including several hundred letters, personally written by Eva Braun. Unlike Hitler, who at the end of the war sought to completely destroy traces of his private life, Eva Braun wanted to leave a mark in history about her relationship with the Fuhrer and life next to him. In her will dated October 26, 1944, she bequeathed her archive to her sister Gretl, and a week before her suicide, in her last letter from Berlin dated April 23, 1945, she ordered her to hermetically pack and bury all “Hitler’s letters” and drafts of her replies to him, specifying : “Please do not destroy!” The rest of Eva’s correspondence, “primarily business correspondence,” the sister was instructed to liquidate. The fate of Hitler's letters to Eva Braun is unknown; it is generally believed that this personal correspondence at the Berghof was destroyed along with other documents before Gretl Braun managed to get there.
From the archive of Eva Braun, only a fragment of a diary of 22 pages has been preserved, describing the period from February 6 to May 28, 1935. Its authenticity is questioned. In 1967, Ilse Fucke-Michels confirmed in writing to Nerina Han that the document was written by her younger sister Eva. The historian Anton Joachimsthaler examined the handwriting of the diary and considered the document a forgery. Historian Werner Maser acknowledged that this diary reveals Hitler's attitudes toward women better than most supposedly well-informed biographers present them. Austrian historian Anna Maria Sigmund called the diary “the mirror of Eva Braun’s soul.” The entries in the diary, which Eva Braun made at intervals of one to three weeks, mainly concern the rapid visits of her lover to Munich.
From the diary it follows that Eva spent her birthday on February 6, 1935 in Munich without Hitler, who, through the wife of Adjutant Schaub Wilma, arranged for her to have “flowers and a telegram” delivered to Hoffmann’s store. At the next meeting a week later, Hitler hinted to Eva that he would not allow her to continue working for Hoffmann and would buy her a “house.” In early March, following her diary, Eva had a wonderful time with the Fuhrer for several hours until midnight, and then, with his permission, she had fun alone until two o’clock in the morning at the annual Munich fancy-dress city ball at the Deutsches Theater. Hitler could have disappeared without saying goodbye, leaving his mistress to suffer in complete bewilderment, impatiently awaiting a call from Hoffmann’s photo studio and with the fragile hope of an invitation to coffee and dinner. The Fuhrer could even stay in Bavaria for a week and still not call the girl. Among other onlookers, the unfortunate Eva once stood for several hours on the street in front of the Carlton Hotel in Schwabing in order to drown out her jealousy to see Hitler presenting film star Anni Ondra with a bouquet of flowers and congratulating the actress on the victory of her husband Max Schmeling in the qualifying fight for the world title. in boxing. Two weeks later, Eva Braun, at an official invitation for “Munich friends of Hitler,” attended a dinner on March 31, 1935 at the fashionable Vier Jahreszeiten hotel, but felt not flattered, but disappointed, having sat for three hours at the table next to the Fuhrer, but without exchanging not a single word with him. At parting, Hitler, “as has happened before,” handed her an envelope with money. Albert Speer observed a similar scene in 1938: after dinner at Vier Jahreszeiten with Berghof regulars and party leaders, Hitler, passing by Eva Braun, handed her an “envelope” in a rather formal manner. Even several decades later, in a conversation with Joachim Fest, Speer was horrified by the Fuhrer’s disdainful attitude towards Eva Braun in the style of American gangster films, which was not consistent with his inherent “Viennese” manners in dealing with ladies.
Second suicide attempt
As follows from Eva Braun's diary, from the beginning of March to the end of May 1935, Hitler completely abandoned her. She hoped in vain for a meeting with her lover or at least news from him. On April 29, she wrote in her diary: “Love at the present time seems to be crossed out of his program.” Hitler became immersed in state affairs and faced serious problems with health, but Eva took her lover’s inattention personally and on May 28, 1935, five days after Hitler’s operation at the Charité to remove a polyp on the vocal cords and on the eve of negotiations with the British on weapons issues, she made her second attempt in three years suicide. In her diary, Eva wrote that she wrote her “last” letter to Hitler and would take a truly “dead” dose of sleeping pills. The farewell letter to Hitler has not survived, and the events of this day are known only in the free presentation of Nerin Gan from the words of Ilse Braun. As the first time, she found her sister in the evening “deeply unconscious,” gave her first aid and called a doctor. Ilsa allegedly discovered Eva’s diary then, from which, in order to avoid publicity, she tore out pages with notes about the decision to commit suicide, so it is not possible to establish the motives for this act. IN memoir literature There is no mention of this incident. Hitler was in Munich that day and, as subsequent events testify, he learned about Eva Braun’s new suicide attempt and took action. According to Hitler's secretary Christa Schröder, Hitler allowed Eva Braun into his life only in order to protect himself "from further threats of suicide" and to protect himself with her "as a shield from the claims of other obsessive ladies."
On August 9, 1935, Eva Braun left her father's house to, accompanied by her sister Gretl and a Hungarian maid, move into a three-room apartment at Wiedenmayerstraße 42, five minutes from Hitler's apartment on Prinzregentenplatz. New housing for Eva Braun, as a sign of his affection for her, was arranged and paid for through Hoffmann by the Fuhrer, who had previously provided financial support to his mistress. The elder Browns initially did not approve of their daughter’s free lifestyle with random disappearances from the house at night and blamed it on Eva’s work at Hoffmann’s photo house. According to the Browns' official version, they learned about Eva's connection with the Fuhrer only after she moved to new apartment. At the end of August 1935, Eva organized a “chance” meeting and introduction between her parents and Hitler at the Lambacher Hof inn near Lake Chiemsee. To avoid a public scandal with the suicide of his mistress, Hitler allowed Eva Braun to get close to him and even allowed her to attend official events.
In September 1935, Eva Braun, together with Hoffmann's family and other employees of his photo studio, attended the annual NSDAP imperial congress in Nuremberg for the first time. According to Hanfstaengl's memoirs, Eva Braun appeared at the congress “modestly,” but wearing “expensive furs.” Through Hoffmann, she easily received scarce invitation cards to the most important events on the convention program. Along with the wives of other prominent National Socialists, Eva Braun, “that young quarrelsome girl with a dissatisfied look,” found herself on the podium for honored guests, which “plunged Madame Raubal, Mrs. Goebbels and all these ministerial wives into absolute shock,” as he recalled after the war Berghof commandant Herbert Döring. Secretary Christa Schröder claimed that Angela Raubal disliked Eva Braun from the very beginning and complained to her brother about the girl’s “very provocative” behavior in Nuremberg, in her opinion.
Soon, in February 1936, Raubal, who worked for her brother Angel, at his request, moved out of the Berghof without explanation. Magda Goebbels paid with disgrace in the Reich Chancellery, which lasted several months, for her disparaging remark addressed to Eva Braun, which infuriated Hitler. No one else dared to criticize Eva Braun, risking falling out of favor with Hitler, and the position of the young mistress in the Fuhrer’s entourage became invulnerable. From three-room apartment Eva Braun and her sister moved on March 30, 1936 to a separate house with a garden, purchased by Hitler for 35 thousand Reichsmarks through Hoffmann in an elite block of villas along Wasserburger Strasse in the Bogenhausen district. On September 2, 1938, this house was rewritten in the name of Eva Braun. Next door to Eva Braun in Bogenhausen were the villas of Heinrich Hoffmann himself, as well as Max Hamann, Heinrich Himmler, Hermann Giesler and Martin Bormann. Eva Braun's second home was the Berghof, where Hitler, although with reservations, allowed the presence of his mistress in local society at the level of the Fuhrer's old party comrades. Eva Braun was still not allowed to attend dinners with the pillars of the Reich, as well as during visits of foreign officials to the Berghof, and during this time she holed up in her bedroom upstairs. For outside visitors to the Berghof, Eva Braun was considered a “personal secretary,” although she continued to be on the staff of Hoffmann’s photographic studio after 1936. Having attempted suicide or staged it, Eva Braun, however, in one year radically changed the conditions of her life with Hitler in her favor.
In the Fuhrer's inner circle
Inexperienced in social life, Eva Braun, who suddenly soared from obscurity into the circle of Hitler's chosen courtiers, found herself among people unfamiliar to her and at first experienced difficulties in communicating. In Obersalzberg, she initially kept her distance from the local public, but she was allowed to invite relatives and friends with their families to visit her at the Berghof. Hitler personally selected her trusted social circle. Emmy Goering dreamed of meeting Eva Braun, but Hitler, who allegedly kept her “locked” in Obersalzberg, under various pretexts, never allowed this meeting to take place. Albert Speer, who was sensitive to the balance of power, and his wife Margarete treated Eva Braun kindly at the Berghof. Like the Speers, Eva was fond of sports, and they sometimes took her with them on ski trips. Eva Braun's circle of sports friends included Annie Brandt, the wife of Dr. Karl Brandt and 6-time German backstroke champion. Hitler's secretaries Traudl Junge and Christa Schröder listed among their friends Eva Braun and young Maria von Below, the wife of adjutant Nikolaus von Below, who in his memoirs mentioned that Hitler in the spring of 1944 “repeatedly” thanked his wife for “such a kind attitude towards Fraulein Braun " Eva had a close friendship with the artist Sophia Storck, a friend of Hitler's adjutant Wilhelm Brückner. Marion Schönmann, the niece of the famous opera singer Louise Perard-Petzl, whom Eva met through Heinrich Hoffmann’s second wife Erna, often appeared at the Berghof at Brown’s invitation.
Eva Braun's Berghof friends were part of her personal retinue with her mother Franziska during foreign trips to Venice or Milan. After the Anschluss of Austria, Eva Braun also went to Vienna separately in March 1938, not with Hitler. Before his state visit to Italy, Hitler, who feared assassination attempts, decided to settle his personal affairs and wrote a will in which he wrote down all the property of the party, but took care of his immediate relatives and subordinates. The first among them, the Fuhrer mentioned “Fräulein Eva Braun from Munich,” to whom he assigned a lifelong allowance of 1,000 marks per month, paid from NSDAP funds, in the event of his death. This will, dated May 2, 1938, is the only known document written in Adolf Hitler's own handwriting that contains the name of his then 26-year-old mistress. Hitler was accompanied to Italy by a delegation of five hundred people, which, according to translator Paul Schmidt, included a good “half of the imperial government.” Eva Braun also visited Rome at this time, but, as always, at a great distance from the Fuhrer and did not participate in a specially prepared program for the wives of high-ranking German politicians.
Over time, Eva Braun became a kind of indicator of the influence of regular participants in the feasts at the Fuhrer's residence: leading Eva Braun to her place at the table to the left of Hitler was considered a privilege, which since 1938 was enjoyed exclusively by Martin Bormann, who thus clearly demonstrated his dominant position in close surroundings Fuhrer. According to Otto-Dietrich, it was Martin Bormann who made sure that information about Hitler’s relationship with Braun and her long stay at the Berghof did not leak outside the residence. Borman, guarding personal life Fuhrer from outside world as a state secret, he often acted as an intermediary in communications between Hitler and Eva Braun. By order of Hitler, he resolved the financial issues of Eva Braun and provided her with an appropriate standard of living. According to Heinrich Hoffmann, during the war years “Eva Braun’s wishes were always fulfilled through Bormann.” Martin Bormann was aware of who Eva Braun was and pedantically ensured that their relationship did not turn into friendship. Even if Eva Braun hated Bormann, as members of the Braun family and Albert Speer claimed after the war, she never openly demonstrated her feelings towards Hitler's personal secretary and avoided any confrontation with him.
In the fenced-off Berghof, closed to outsiders, in the closed company of longtime confidants, Hitler and Eva Braun lived in a relaxed, almost family-like atmosphere. According to Hitler’s personal adjutant Fritz Wiedemann, the Führer felt like “the master of his domain” in Obersalzberg and enjoyed “comfort and a kind of family life.” With the disappearance of Angela Raubal, Eva Braun settled into the role of the hostess of the “grand hotel,” as she called the Berghof, but by no means its housekeeper: the housekeeping at the Berghof was managed by a married couple of housekeepers, and special occasions Hitler's house intendant Arthur Kannenberg was invited. Sometimes Eva interfered in this process, trying to introduce her own ideas, and thereby made herself many enemies among the Berghof staff, employees of Hitler's local headquarters and some regular guests. According to the recollections of Hitler's third personal physician, surgeon Hanskarl von Hasselbach at the end of 1945, Eva Braun last years She called herself “Mrs. Berghof”, enjoyed all the corresponding rights, but ignored her duties: all the staff had to fulfill her wishes, but she was not at all interested in the well-being of the servants.
At the Berghof, Eva Braun took up photography and filming in earnest. Heinrich Hoffmann often bought photographs and color films from Eva Braun’s private life at the Berghof and, by his own admission, for a lot of money. One of Eva Braun's photographs cost him in 1940 the astronomical sum of 20 thousand Reichsmarks. From March 7, 1945, she was with Hitler in the Führerbunker in Berlin. The wedding of Hitler and Eva Braun took place on April 29” (USSR, 1968-1972), director, in the role of Eva Braun - Zoe Telford.
Modest and sweet, unpretentious and compliant - this is exactly what a woman who idolized a tyrant and dictator was like. Her whole world revolved around her lover. He sowed death and destruction, and she was worried about his health and dreamed of marrying him. Did naive Eva Braun's dreams come true? Yes, but she paid an exorbitant price for it.
Eva Anna Paula Brown was born into a classic Aryan family of the early twentieth century - an uncomplaining mother and a despot father who always dreamed of a son, but was raising three daughters. Eva was the second child in the family, she was born on February 6, 1912. The elder sister Ilse first saw the world in 1909, and the youngest Gretl Brown in 1915.
NevsepicEva's family was not poor, her father Friedrich was a school teacher, her mother Francis was a dressmaker, although after the birth of her daughters she devoted all her time to the family. The girls were kept under strict control, demanded strict obedience, and were not given parental affection and warmth. By the standards of that time, a woman’s lot consisted of three “Cs”: church, kinder, küche (church, children, kitchen).
Despite the reign of conservative views, Eva Braun received a good education, she graduated from:
- Primary monastery school;
- Munich Lyceum;
- Institute of English ladies-in-waiting in Simbak (popularly called the “forge of future wives”).
Albion-Books Having learned to type on a typewriter, having learned the basics French, accounting and theory of reference household, seventeen-year-old Eva returned to Munich again. Her parents helped the girl get a job in Heinrich Hoffmann's photo studio, where Eva happily mastered the intricacies of photography.
Meeting Hitler
Young Eva dreamed of one thing - all-consuming mutual love. Fate made its own adjustments: Eva’s heart was captured by a powerful middle-aged man, and not by the young prince from her dreams. Promising, confidently striding towards political Olympus, Adolf Hitler was a friend of the owner of the photo salon, Heinrich Hoffmann. Very soon he noticed a cute photographer's assistant. Eva was not interested in politics, she did not know what kind of person had appeared in her life, and dived headlong into the pool of love.
Day online Hitler's biography contains many interesting facts, testifying to his unique ability to charm, to magnetically attract others to himself, to force them to look at the world through his eyes. Naive and romantic Eva Braun, at 17 years old, could not resist the onslaught of a charming forty-year-old man, giving her exquisite compliments.
Eva fell madly in love, but were her feelings mutual? Hitler was flattered by the attention of a young, pretty girl. He absolutely loved her athletic, fit figure, tall stature and slightly stupid expression on her face. According to Hoffman, it was Eva’s narrow-mindedness, naivety and apoliticality that gave inspiration to the odious politician.
Nevsepic This is also evidenced by famous quote Aryan leader: “A smart man should always choose a primitive and stupid woman.” He preferred to stay away from smart, self-sufficient ladies who could somehow influence him political career. Eva Braun, as a person, did not play any role in the history of Germany. She simply loved and was ready to give her life for her beloved tyrant.
Relations with Hitler
Decisive and assertive in resolving political issues, Hitler was in no hurry to move to a new stage in his relationship with his young girlfriend. They often spent time together: walked along the alleys of the park, went to the cinema, talked about books and sports. But in Adolf’s heart there lived love for another woman - his close relative Geli Raubal. It was with her that he appeared in the world, he hurried to her in the evenings.
Brown knew well about Geli and for two years sought to win the heart of the tyrant. Only after the mysterious death of his lovely niece did Hitler look at Eva with different eyes - a new round began in their relationship. But there is an opinion that Geli was the Fuhrer’s only passion, a woman capable of causing a storm of emotions in her imperious patron.
Adolf's attitude towards Eve cannot be called unambiguous. He would be attentive and caring, and then suddenly disappear from her life for several days or even months.
Submarine There were legends about the Fuhrer's novels. Eva suffered, but readily and resignedly forgave his adventures. The demonic spell of this man often drove women into madness, they were ready to say goodbye to life for his sake.
Suicide attempts
The girl, brought up in strictness, had a hard time enduring the ambiguity of her position - a kept woman, a mistress, but not a spouse. Despite this, she did not try to break this vicious relationship and devoted herself entirely to her lover. Neither parental prohibitions nor love adventures the chosen one, nor his rudeness could cool the girl’s ardor.
Onedio Completely submitting to the whims of Adolf, suffering from his indifference and coldness, Eva twice wanted to take her own life:
- In 1932, in her parents' house, she tried to shoot herself with her father's pistol;
- In 1935, Eva swallowed pills.
In one of documentaries about Brown's life, the emphasis is placed on the fact that the woman lived in her own fictional world, as if she was playing a role. And the suicide attempts were also demonstrative and planned. Thus, she unsettled her beloved, made her worry and begged for crumbs of attention.
Wedding in a bunker
The first sign of Hitler's serious intentions was that he not only found out Eva's nationality, but also checked her pedigree. It was extremely important to him that his life partner not be Jewish. In 1935, the Fuhrer bought a house in which the younger Brown sisters, Gretl and Eva, settled. The financial situation of Hitler's mistress was enviable - she did not deny herself anything and endlessly updated her wardrobe.
Fresher Eva was more depressed by isolation. She had no right to attend meetings, even those organized in their home. When the Fuhrer “entrusted” her with the position of secretary, she began to accompany him at official receptions.
In 1944, the wind of change at the front blew against Germany, and Hitler forbade Eva from appearing in the capital. By this time, he had already drawn up a will, in which Brown's interests were taken into account first.
Prisoners of Eternity For the first time in 16 years, Eva, trembling with fear, did not follow her lover’s order. On February 8, 1945, she accomplished her last feat - she went to Hitler, realizing that she was going to her death. And now the dream of her whole life came true - the tyrant, touched by her act and grateful for her sacrifice, proposed to her in the far from romantic atmosphere of an underground bunker.
On April 29, 1945, the bride wore a black dress - this is what the groom wished. Wine, candles, songs pouring from the gramophone. The newlyweds accept congratulations and drink wine.
Death
04/30/1945 married couple left this world by committing joint suicide.
Submarine What were the causes of death of a faithful and sweet woman? Endless love for her husband, without whom she did not want to live. His Evil Empire collapsed. As a faithful companion of a true tyrant, she took poison in order to go into another world together.
Brown was Hitler's wife, but only for one day.
Eva Braun was born in February 1912. ordinary girl, who made a career from “personal secretary” to the wife of Adolf Hitler.
At the auction of the Philip Serrell auction house in the gloomy autumn of 2016, an interesting item went under the hammer - silk purple panties.
Eva Braun: White Moth Samba
In the auction catalog they had the following description: “although worn, but neat in appearance.”
Thus, the rarity, which at that time was more than 70 years old, was sold for $3,600.
The high price is explained by the fact that they belonged to the mistress, who later became the wife of the leader of the Third Reich, Eva Braun.
These trousers with the monogram “EB” were found by an American soldier at the end of the war in Hitler’s bunker in the Bavarian Alps.
Eva Braun did not seek fame and did not strive to rule the world. But her name remains forever in history, including as a symbol of female fidelity.
Eva Braun - biography, interesting facts
The Fuhrer's companion did not want to go to the Judgment of God under her maiden name and became Eva Hitler, however, just before her death.
However, historians continue to stubbornly call her Eva Braun, as if trying to separate this name from the name of Hitler.
Eva was born in Munich into a simple family school teacher Friedrich Braun. And it was February 6, 1912.
The girl had two sisters. The father raised all his daughters in a strict manner: wake up - bed down - on the clock, and - no pranks!
The girl studied at a convent school, then entered the Munich Lyceum. Just like her mother Franziska, a titled skier, she was fond of sports since childhood, only in her case, athletics.
Having successfully graduated from the lyceum, Eva entered the Fraulein Institute in the town of Zimbach, where she mastered the skills of typing, home economics, accounting and studied French.
Eva was barely 17 years old when she became a delivery girl in the photo studio of the bourgeois Heinrich Hoffmann. There, in between, out of boredom, she mastered photography and became a good photographer.
Hitler and Eva Braun
In the fall of 1929, Eva Braun was introduced to a certain “Herr Wolf,” a forty-year-old man, the leader of the Nazi party. Wolf's real name was Adolf Hitler, and at that time he was not yet the head of the Third Reich.
Hitler's relationships with women and his sexual preferences are a topic that requires a separate discussion. His opponents and various researchers have made up so many things about this that finding even a grain of truth in these fantasies is a very difficult task.
Was Hitler bisexual? Did you have relationships with men in your youth? Or was he impotent all his life? There is no clear answer to any of these questions.
But it is known for certain that he had close relationships with women, and Eva easily joined his “Don Juan” list. She was clearly flattered by the attention of the forty-year-old respectable gentleman.
True, at that stage, seventeen-year-old Eva had to “share” Hitler with his niece Geli Raubal.
The competition was short-lived: on September 18, 1931, Geli shot herself after a quarrel with her uncle-boyfriend. Hitler fell into a severe depression, from where Eva “got” him, embracing him in her arms.
At the top of the Alps
While with Hitler, Eva herself twice tried to follow Geli’s path: in ’32 she shot herself and wounded herself in the neck, and in ’35 she was poisoned. In both cases, doctors returned her from the Other World.
So this novel for the girl was also not full of happiness.
There is no single version regarding the motives for these suicide attempts; there are only different assumptions, for example, that Eva committed suicide out of jealousy - her energetic, rapidly gaining popularity lover was interested in other women.
As moral compensation, Hitler made Eva his personal secretary and bought her a house.
It is believed that the post of secretary was created specifically for Eva Braun, and it was formal.
The newly-minted leader of Germany was not going to lose sight of his mistress.
Although he was in no hurry to marry her. He saw himself as an idol or idol of German women, and it is more useful for the idol if he is not married, if he is free. A married idol loses in the eyes of his admirers.
Construction of Hitler's Alpine residence was completed. It was named Berghof ("Mountain Court"). Eva Braun has mastered this high-altitude “nest” as an unofficial mistress.
At the residence, Hitler rested his soul, received diplomats and dignitaries, and held private meetings.
From 1936 to 1945, Eva Braun lived in the “Mountain Yard” almost constantly. It seemed that she was satisfied with the status of the secret “first Frau of the Reich,” but in her heart she apparently cherished the hope that Hitler would still marry her.
Eva Braun occupied herself with photography and photography. Thanks to her passion, unique, including color, footage and photographs of Adolf Hitler and his retinue on vacation have reached us, presenting a sharp contrast to the propaganda chronicles.
I'll go with him until the end
Did Eva Braun understand what was happening outside the Berghof? Apparently she understood. The wife of the leader of Nazi youth organizations, Von Schirach, Henriette, tried to open Eva’s eyes back in 1943 and advised her to leave Germany.
Eva did not listen to her friend’s words.
The end was approaching quickly. On March 7, 1945, Eva Braun moves into Hitler's Berlin bunker, his last refuge, where he had been hiding since January.
Their meeting was sad. A ruin appeared before Eve, with shaking hands and a gray head - all that remained of her Adolf.
However, the woman remained faithful to her man here too.
On April 19, 1945, she wrote to her friend Gerta Schneider: “Dear Gerta! We hear shelling from the Eastern Front, bombs are falling close... But I am happy to be with him in these difficult moments. Everything will end well for us. I know it".
The next three days mercilessly dispelled the remaining illusions. On April 22, 1945, Eva writes to the same addressee: “Dear Gerta! We will fight with all our might, but it seems our finale is close. I don’t understand how it happened, but I no longer believe in God.
Words cannot express how worried I am about the Fuhrer. I can’t understand how we allowed all this to happen. Say hello to our friends. I die as I lived. It's not difficult for me. You know".
Death of Eva Braun
Eve readily responded to her lover’s proposal to commit suicide together.
The truth put forward the condition that she would go into another world not as a secretary, but as a legal wife.
On April 29, 1945, Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler were married. With the participation of witnesses: Joseph Goebbels and Martin Bormann. The procedure took place in the Fuhrerbunker, in fact, under carpet bombing.
This was followed by a small express banquet, which became the last feast in Nazi Germany. Its main participants had absolutely nothing left to live, but witnesses left memories that the young woman was having fun from the heart. Finally her dream has come true!
Eva Hitler calmly took her ampoule of poison on April 30, 1945, in a gray bunker room.
Her desire to be with Hitler to the end was fulfilled, and even more! The remains of the leader and his faithful wife, scorched by fire, will wander through the secret caches of the special services for more than a quarter of a century.
This is how this unprecedented “honeymoon” will be.
Only in 1970, on the orders of the Chairman of the KGB of the USSR Andropov, would they be destroyed.
Egor Iskrukhin
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