Eva Braun

Eva Anna Paula Hitler was the longtime companion of Adolf Hitler and, for less thanhours, his wife. Braun met Hitler in Munich when she wasyears old, while she was working as an assistant and model for his personal photographer, and began seeing him 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 many of the surviving colour photographs and films of Hitler were taken by her. She was a key figure within Hitlers inner social circle, but did not attend public events with him until mid1944, when her sister Gretl married Hermann Fegelein, the SS liaison officer on his staff.

Born in Munich, Eva Braun was the second daughter of school teacher Friedrich Fritz Braun and Franziska Fanny Kronberger, who had worked as a seamstress before her marriage. Her elder sister, Ilse, was born in 1909 and her younger sister, Margarete , was born in 1915. Brauns parents were divorced in April 1921, but remarried in November 1922, probably for financial reasons . Braun was educated at a Catholic lyceum in Munich, and then for one year at a business school in the Convent of the English Sisters in Simbach am Inn, where she had average grades and a talent for athletics. At ageshe took a job working for Heinrich Hoffmann, the official photographer for the Nazi Party . Initially employed as a shop assistant and sales clerk, she soon learned how to use a camera and develop photos. She met Hitler,years her senior, at Hoffmanns studio in Munich in October 1929. He had been introduced to her as Herr Wolff. Evas sister, Gretl, also worked for Hoffman from 1932 onward, and the

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