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Monday, 8 January 2024

IDRIS SOORMALLY AND PM DAVID LLOYD GEORGE ADMIRED HERR ADOLF HITLER IN 1936

Saturday 10 December 2016

IDRIS SOORMALLY, A HINDUSTANI VICTIM OF BRITISH WORLDWIDE GENOCIDAL IMPERIALIST COLONIALISM. 

https://muhammad-ali-ben-marcus.blogspot.com/2016/12/idris-soormally-hindustani-victim-of.html 



REPLACING ADOLF HITLER WITH SATANYAHU AND OTHER GENOCIDAL MASSMURDERING SATANISTS!
 
 * Note: PDF scan of this newspaper article can be downloaded here
  

THE ONE AND ONLY MIKE KING

I talked to Hitler

by the Right Honourable David Lloyd George I have just returned from a visit to Germany.

In so short a time one can only form impressions or at least check impressions which years of distant observation through the telescope of the Press and constant inquiry from those who have seen things at a closer range had already made on one's mind.

I have now seen the famous German Leader and also something of the great change he has effected. Whatever one may think of his methods—and they are certainly not

those of a parliamentary country—there can be no doubt that he has achieved a marvelous transformation in the spirit of the people, in their attitude towards each other, and in their social and economic outlook.

He rightly claimed at Nuremberg that in four years his movement has made a new Germany.

It is not the Germany of the first decade that followed the war - broken, dejected, and bowed down with a sense of apprehension and impotence. It is now full of hope and confidence, and of a renewed sense of determination to lead its own life without interference from any influence outside its own frontiers.

 
There is for the first time since the war a general sense of

security. The people are more cheerful. There is a greater sense of general gaiety of spirit throughout the land. It is a happier Germany. I saw it everywhere, and Englishmen I met during my trip and who knew Germany well were very impressed with the change.

One man has accomplished this miracle. He is a born leader of men. A magnetic, dynamic personality with a single-minded purpose, a resolute will and a dauntless heart.

He is not merely in name but in fact the national Leader. He has made them safe against potential enemies by whom they were surrounded. He is also securing them against that constant dread of starvation, which is one of the poignant memories of the last years of the War and the first years of the Peace. Over 700,000 died of sheer hunger in those dark years. You can still see the effect in the physique of those who were born into that bleak world.

The fact that Hitler has rescued his country from the fear of a repetition of that period of despair, penury and humiliation has given him unchallenged authority in modern Germany.

As to his popularity, especially among the youth of Germany, there can be no manner of doubt. The old trust him; the young idolize him. It is not the admiration accorded to a popular Leader. It is the worship of a national hero who has saved his country from utter despondency and degradation.

It is true that public criticism of the Government is forbidden in every form. That does not mean that criticism is absent. I have heard the speeches of prominent Nazi orators freely condemned.

But not a word of criticism or of disapproval have I heard of Hitler.

He is as immune from criticism as a king in a monarchical country. He is something more. He is the George Washington of Germany—the man who won for his country independence from all her oppressors.

To those who have not actually seen and sensed the way Hitler reigns over the heart and mind of Germany this description may appear extravagant. All the same, it is the bare truth. This great people will work better, sacrifice more, and, if necessary, fight with greater resolution because Hitler asks them to do so. Those who do not comprehend this central fact cannot judge the present possibilities of modem Germany.

On the other hand, those who imagine that Germany has swung back to its old Imperialist temper cannot have any understanding of the character of the change. The idea of a Germany intimidating Europe with a threat that its irresistible army might march across frontiers forms no part of the new vision.

What Hitler said at Nuremberg is true. The Germans will resist to the death every invader of their own country, but they have no longer the desire themselves to invade any other land.

The leaders of modern Germany know too well that Europe is too formidable a proposition to be overrun and trampled down by any single nation, however powerful may be its armaments. They have learned that lesson in the war.

Hitler fought in the ranks throughout the war, and knows from personal experience what war means. He also knows too well that the odds are even heavier today against an aggressor than they were at that time.

What was then Austria would now be in the main hostile to the ideals of 1914. The Germans are under no illusions about Italy. They also are aware that the Russian Army is in every respect far more efficient than it was in 1914.

The establishment of a German hegemony in Europe which was the aim and dream of the old pre-war militarism, is not even on the horizon of Nazism.

But, as any one who knows war can tell, there is a great difference between a defensive and an offensive armament. On the defensive the arms need not be as powerful and the troops that wield them need not be as numerous or so well trained as in attack. A few selected machine-gunners skilfully hidden and sheltered can hold up a division backed up by shattering artillery.

Germany has constructed strong defensive positions and has, I have no doubt, a sufficient number of trained or rather half-trained men with enough machine-guns and artillery to hold these positions against attack. She has also a very efficient and powerful air fleet.

There is no attempt to conceal these facts. Re-armament proceeds quite openly, and they want it. It accounts for the outburst of defiance hurled against Russia. They feel safe now.

But it will take Germany at least 10 years to build up an army strong enough to face the armies of Russia or France on any soil except her own. There she can fight successfully, because she can choose battlefields which she has carefully prepared and fortified, and she has plenty of men trained sufficiently to defend trenches and concrete emplacements.

But her conscript army is very young - there is a gap of years to fill up in the reserves and particularly in officers. As an offensive army it would take quite 10 years to bring it up to the standard of the great army of 1914.

But any attempt to repeat Poincare's antics in the Rühr would now be met with a fanatical resistance from myriads of brave men who count death for the Fatherland not a sacrifice but a glory.

This is the new temper of the German youth. There is almost a religious fervour about their faith in the movement and its Leader.

That impressed me more than anything I witnessed during my short visit to the new Germany. There was a revivalist atmosphere. It has had an extraordinary effect in unifying the nation.

Catholic and Protestant, Prussian and Bavarian, employer and workman, rich and poor, have been consolidated into one people. Religious, provincial and class origins no longer divide the nation. There is a passion for unity born of dire necessity.

The divisions which followed the collapse of 1918 made Germany impotent to face her problems, internal and external. That is why the clash of rival passions is not only deprecated, but temporarily suppressed.

Public condemnation of the Government is censored as ruthlessly as it is in a state of war. To a Briton accustomed to generations of free speech and a free Press this restraint on liberty is repellent, but in Germany, where such freedom is not as deeply rooted as it is here, the nation acquiesces not because it is afraid to protest, but because it has suffered so much from dissension that the vast majority think it must be temporarily called off at all costs.

Freedom of criticism, is therefore for the time being in suspense. German unity is the ideal and the idol of the moment, and not liberty.

I found everywhere a fierce and uncompromising hostility to Russian Bolshevism, coupled with a genuine admiration for the British people with a profound desire for a better and friendlier understanding with them.

The Germans have definitely made up their minds never to quarrel with us again. Nor have they any vindictive feelings towards the French. They have altogether put out of their minds any desire for the restoration of Alsace-Lorraine.

But there is a real hatred and fear of Russian Bolshevism, and unfortunately it is growing in intensity. It constitutes the driving force of their international and military policy. Their private and public talk is full of it. Wherever you go you need not wait long before you hear the word "Bolschewismus," and it recurs again and again with a wearying reiteration.

Their eyes are concentrated on the East as if they were watching intently for the breaking of the day of wrath. Against this they are preparing with German thoroughness.

This fear is not put on. High and low they are convinced there is every reason for apprehension. They have a dread of the great army which has been built up in Russia in recent years.

An exceptionally violent anti-German campaign of abuse printed in the Russian official Press and propelled by the official Moscow radio has revived the suspicion in Germany that the Soviet Government are contemplating mischief against the Fatherland.

Unfortunately the German leaders set this down to the influence of prominent Russian Jews, and thus the anti-Jewish sentiment is being once more stirred up just as it was fading into turpitude. The German temperament takes no more delight in persecution than does the Briton, and the native good humor of the German people soon relapses into tolerance after a display of ill-temper.

Every well-wisher of Germany— and I count myself among them— earnestly pray that Goebbels's ranting speeches will not provoke another anti-Jewish manifestation. It would do much to wither the verdant blades of good will which were growing so healthily in the scorched battleground which once separated great civilized nations.

But we should do wisely not to attach extravagant importance to recent outbursts against Russia. The fact of the matter is, the German Government in its relations with Russia is now in the stage from which we ourselves have only just emerged.

We can all recall the time when Moscow, through its official publications, Press and radio, made atrocious personal attacks on individual British Ministers—Austen Chamberlain, Ramsay MacDonald and Churchill—and denounced our political and economic system as organized slavery.

We started this campaign of calumny by stigmatizing their leaders as assassins, their economic system as brigandage, their social and religious attitude and behavior as an orgy of immorality and atheism.

This has been the common form of diplomatic relationship between Communist Russia and the rest of the world on both sides. We must not forget that even when we had a Russian Minister here we actually sent the police to raid one of the official buildings of the Russian Embassy to rummage for treason in their hampers of frozen butter.

No one imagined that was intended as a preliminary or a provocation to war on either side. The slinging of scurrilities between Germany and Russia is only the usual language of diplomacy to which all countries have been accustomed during the last 20 years where Communist Russia is concerned.

It is important we should realize for the sake of our peace of mind that a repetition of this unseemly slanging match does not in the least portend war. Germany is no more ready to invade Russia than she is for a military expedition to the moon.

What then did the Führer mean when he contrasted the rich but under-cultivated lands of the Ukraine and Siberia and the inexhaustible mineral resources of the Urals with the poverty of German soil? It was simply a Nazi retort to the accusation hurled by the Soviets as to the miseries of the peasantry and workers of Germany under Nazi rule.

Hitler replied by taunting the Soviets with the wretched use they were making of the enormous resources of their own country. In comparison with the Nazi achievement in the land whose natural wealth was relatively poor.

He and his followers have a horror of Bolshevism and undoubtedly underrate the great things the Soviets have accomplished in their vast country. The Bolsheviks retaliate by understating Hitler's services to Germany.

It is only an interchange of abusive amenities between two authoritarian Governments. But it does not mean war between them.

I have no space in which to give a catalogue of the schemes which are being carried through to develop the resources of Germany and to improve the conditions of life for her people. They are immense and they are successful.

I would only wish to say here that I am more convinced than ever,

that the free country to which I have returned is capable of achieving greater things in that direction if its rulers would only pluck up courage and set their minds boldly to the task.

MIKE KING : The Myth of "Nazi-Looted Art"

By Mike King

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Starring George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett - directed by George Clooney.
 
OFFICIAL DESCRIPTION
Based on the true story, The Monuments Men is an action-thriller focusing on a World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves.
It would be an impossible mission: with the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the Germans under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell. The Monuments Men found themselves in a race against time to avoid the destruction of 1000 years of culture -- risking their lives to protect mankind's greatest achievements."

The REAL Story of "Nazi Looted Art"

ART PROTECTION DURING WORLD WAR I Under Kaiser Wilhelm II during World War I, the highly cultured Germans go to great lengths to protect and preserve artworks located in enemy territory or near a zone of combat. The German word to describe this principal of saving Europe's cultural and artistic treasures during wartime is "Kunstschutz" (art protection)
 
1. Kaiser Wilhelm tried to avert the war which was forced upon Germany. Even while winning the war, the Kaiser held out an olive branch to the Allies, while his Kunstschutz units protected artworks belonging to enemy nations. / 2. "Art Protection in War"
 
ART IS RETURNED AFTER THE WAR
At the end of World War I, rescued artworks are returned voluntarily. Unlike World War II, anti-German propaganda actually fades away following World War I. As a result, Germany is later praised for "Kunstschutz" / art protection during "The Great War".
World War I was very destructive. Thanks to Germany, many works of art located in Belgium and France were saved. 
 
ART PROTECTION DURING WORLD WAR II
A talented painter himself, Adolf Hitler has a great appreciation for art and culture. He sees Churchill and FDR as uncultured barbarians with merciless disregard for innocent life, architecture, and works of art. As the Germans under Kaiser Wilhelm II had done during World War I, Hitler too orders the protection of artworks throughout the combat theatres of Western and Eastern Europe. "Again and again I uttered these warnings against this specific type of aerial warfare, and I did so for over three and a half months. That these warnings failed to impress Mr. Churchill does not surprise me in the least. For what does this man care for the lives of others? What does he care for culture or for architecture?" -- Adolf Hitler
 
Churchill the degenerate Barbarian // Hitler the cultured gentleman (with Norwegian figure skater Sonja Henning) // A Painting By Adolf Hitler 
 
MARSHAL GORING HEADS THE KUNSTSCHUTZ
The task of protecting the art of Europe is handed over to Air Force Marshal Hermann Goring. As Allied terror bombing ravages Europe, thousands of paintings and sculptures from Italy, France, Belgium, Russia, Romania, and Poland are gathered and meticulously inventoried by the Germans. This process only began in the fall of 1943. Had the Germans wanted to "loot" the art of Europe, they could easily have done so in 1940, 1941, 1942, and the first 9 months of 1943. It was only after Allied carpet bombardment was unleashed upon Italy (later on France), and the Soviets began advancing from the East, that the German began gathering up the artwork.
 
As men of culture, Hitler and Goring placed high priority on art protection. Rescued from Naples: 'Danaë' by Titian (l) and "The Blind Leading The Blind" by Pieter Bruegel 
 
HITLER SAVES ATHENS, ROME & FLORENCE
Hitler respects ancient Rome as one of the cultural pillars of Europe. As the Americans and British approach Rome from the South, Hitler orders his troops to evacuate. Knowing that an Allied air and ground attack would destroy many of its cultural icons, The “Eternal City” is left open for the Allies to march in uncontested. Hitler’s decision to leave Rome as an undefended "Open City" saves the great city from ruin. Athens and Florence are also declared Open Cities.
Hitler's voluntary evacuation spared Rome and its cultural wonders from the "collateral damage" of the merciless barbarian Allies. 
 
SPEAKING OF "LOOTED ART'
Irony of irony! Barbaric American looting of Europe includes the taking of personal possessions, livestock, women, and works of art. In the East, it’s not even necessary to speak about the wholesale looting and ghastly gang raping carried out by the Red Army. Again in 2003, the U.S. occupiers of Iraq deliberately stood down as barbarians and professional thieves looted the priceless cultural treasures of that unfortunate nation.
 
Much of the stuff the Allies stole has never been returned. During the Iraq war, U.S. surrogates systematically looted the ancient treasures of the Baghdad Museum. 
 
WHO INVENTED THE 'NAZI LOOTING' STORY?
After the war, the American Art Looting Investigation Unit (ALIU) of the heavily Jewish Office of Strategic Services (OSS) issues 13 reports on the German plundering of art. By the way, this is the same OSS whose other “findings” accuse the Germans of using the bodies of dead Jews to make “shrunken heads”, “lamp shades” and “bars of soap” - allegations which are today universally acknowledged to have been false.
 
The OSS is the forerunner to the CIA.
The "Cloak & Dagger" Logo of the OSS says it all! An Agency whose stated purpose involves strategic deception and propaganda crafted the "looted art" lie. The mass-murderer Eisenhower (shown examining "looted art") also helped to sell the post war lie.
 
THE LIE WON'T DIE
In the months, years, and decades following the war, endlessly repeated propaganda has elevated the OSS-CIA fable of “looted Nazi art” into a virtual reality in the minds of the brainwashed public. However, as is the case with so many other elements of the “official story" of World War II, this too is a lie.
Blah blah blah... Blah blah blah... Blah blah blah...
 

Source: Daily Express, September 17, 1936, pp. 12-17

Note: PDF scan of this newspaper article can be downloaded here

 

Saturday, 19 August 2023

EVA BRAUN AND HER ALLEGED 1945 BABY WITH A MUSLIM OFFICER IN THE GERMAN ARMY

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WHO CAN PROVE I AM NOT THE BIOLOGICAL SON OF EVA BRAUN WITH A GERMAN MUSLIM OFFICER
WHO CAN PROVE I AM NOT THE BIOLOGICAL SON OF EVA BRAUN WITH A GERMAN MUSLIM OFFICER ABANDONED AFTER THE WAR ON THE PORCH OF SAINT HELENA BASILICA IN THE BRITISH COLONY OF MAURITIUS AS THE RUMOUR WENT IN THOSE DAYS???
I CANNOT PROVE I AM!!!

 

The above uniform is borrowed from a Jewish Officer of the German Army Jewish General Helmut Wilberg - Photo shopped.  

My adoptive father Idris ADORED MONSIEUR ADOLF HITLER and called his dog known to me - HITLERWHY???

My younger Sister confirmed this in the presence of many witnesses recently in London.

 

WWII HISTORY MAINLY WRITTEN BY JEWS OR ZIONISTS IS A PACK OF LIES!  

I AM THROWING AWAY MY DOZENS OF BOOKS (PROPAGANDA) ON OR ABOUT IT!!! 

EVA BRAUN WAS ALLEDGEDLY (ON LINE) OF ASHKENAZI ORIGINS (DNA TESTED???)  - NOT SURPRISING AT ALL!  Everybody was "Jewish" around Monsieur Adolphe including his photographer, his cook, his doctor, even himself some say!  He ate only Kosher, but was also said to be a vegetarian?  WHO TO BELIEVE???

OR MAYBE MY BIOLOGICAL MOTHER WAS A MIXED RUSSIAN??? 
 
1. My first wife is Russian - Naina Gregoryevna Sadabash (I was still a virgin at 21!) - She told me she was saved by German soldiers while left to die in the snow while still an infant when her mother was running away from sex traffickers in Moldavia. 
 
2. My second wife is Eurasian - Shirin Abdool Gaffoor - She used to wear a medallion with a Swastika in the 1970s - COINCIDENCE???
 
3. My third wife (1981) is Polish - Małgorzata Skrobut - She was expelled from Paris in 1981 by the Jewish Immigration Mafia ruling in Paris! - COINCIDENCE???
 
4. My fourth wife is French - Sylviane Paulette Garnier - She told me she was saved by German soldiers in Paris while still an infant and almost dying because there was no proper health care and she was treated in a Military hospital - COINCIDENCE???  She confirmed this to me again a few weeks ago, but refuses to record it down in her own handwriting (this would surely offend her Communist son Joachim Garnier!) ! 
 
5. And my fifth wife is US American - Kaamilah bint Qadar (Kathalyn Therese Parker Bates) - but we never met!  THE JFK CURSE, MOST CERTAINLY!

That's why I am completely messed up and looking for my own biological Mother!   
 
I had one single girl friend in my entire life, my French wife-to-be and Mother of my unique child!  Since 1990, I never touched any woman again to this very day!  I am a good monk, better than most I hear of - better than the Pope!  Now 84 years old, but Sylviane does not want to see me at all!  Yet, she enjoys wearing my fake Russian hat! 
 

I could have made a great career in Jollywood most probably!  But, Catholic Nadine Nelly Jeannette Lhopitalier (future wife of the French Baron Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild) refused to sell herself to become an actress as was and still is the Hollywood practice arguing she would keep her virginity only for her husband, and she did just that.  And, to this very day I never sold myself to anybody, government or religion!
 
 I am so often reminded to FORGET the past, but only when others dislike it, but they all remember what they like, including my Sweet and Beloved Mother Rabiah who also tried to destroy me and my family. 

But, MY past made me stronger, saved my life and kept me away from doing evil things, like, for example, being UNGRATEFUL for all the good things others did to me, knowingly or unknowingly, like that German Lady Eva Braun who was murdered by Ashkenazi pogromists,  My future-to-be Hindustani Grand-Father Ally Muhammad, a Son of British Holocaust Survivor, found me abandoned in a basket on the porch of Saint Helena's Basilica.  Winston Churchill deliberately starved to death over 4 million Hindustanis, just like the Satanic West has been doing to hundreds of millions of people around the world, including 150 million Muslims in the past centuries.   In only one country, they say was the birthplace of their civilisation, they starved to death half a million under five children and murdered some 3 million Iraqis just as the Zionists have been doing to Arabs, Palestinians, Asians and Africans.

My alleged father was a Muslim in the German Army, but who can ever PROVE this to be false?  I cannot even prove I am right about this remarkable fragment of my alleged past, but don't most people not lie about almost everything, including about GOD, Politics, History, Science, and almost everything?  I was never proven to have lied at all for the past 60 years I have been communicating openly and publicly to millions!  But, I always proved my accusers to be the REAL LIARS, HYPOCRITES, PAID AGENTS, or IGNORAMUSES, including people of religion, those blind lovers of myths, lies, and evil doctrines like the Political Zionists!

How many of us have hard evidence that we are the real children of our Blessed Mothers???  That's a good one!  Oy Vey!

BAFS - EVA BRAUN

Shalom    

 
   St Helene Church, Curepipe, Mauritius Stock Photo - Image of church ...
 Mr. Ally Muhammad Soormally found me as an abandoned baby in a Moses Basket on the porch of that Church (St. Helena) in 1945, allegedly!  Curepipe-Road, British Colony of Mauritius.
 
N.B. ADOLF or ADOLPHE is a common Jewish name.  My French Kosher butcher was "Chez Adolphe"! 
Lives of Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers, both by Bryan Mark Rigg
Half-Jewish General Helmut Wilberg. [WHY HALF???]
This photo is in the public domain via Wikicommons.

 

"According to Rigg’s research, a few thousand full Jews, sixty-thousand half Jews (many of whom called themselves Mampe after a cocktail popular in Berlin at the time that was half-sweet and half-bitter), and 90,000 quarter Jews served in the Wehrmacht. Some, whose fathers, grandfathers, and uncles had been in the Imperial German Army, had enlisted. Many assimilated Jews, like Anne Frank’s father, believed Hitler’s racial laws did not apply to them because they had fought for their country in World War I. Jewish allegiance to Germany in the early days of the Third Reich is one of the great tales in the history of unrequited love. Others were drafted. Some went in hope of saving their families; others of saving themselves. As more than one would say later, the safest place for a Jew in Hitler’s Germany was in the military. Some even tried to get into the Luftwaffe because it was rumored that Goering protected his own.

In the early days of the Third Reich, service for Jews did not seem so extraordinary. As I said, many believed themselves Germans at heart, Jews only peripherally. Some had converted to Christianity. Then, on April 8, 1940, with Jews already forbidden in the military, Hitler issued a decree requiring the dismissal of half-Jewish soldiers and those married to half-Jews. Quarter-Jews and those married to quarter-Jews could remain but were ineligible to become officers or NCOs." 

Ellen Feldman [Feldman?]

 

Photo-shopped, but can I pass for a "HALF" German?

Mark Zuckerberg passes as the greatest Health, Vaccine and Weather Scientist of the Age as well as the Pope of World Depopulation??? 

OR MAYBE MY BIOLOGICAL MOTHER WAS A MIXED JEW OR MIXED FRENCH OR MIXED ROMAN???
 
MY EURASIAN WIFE'S GRANDMOTHER WAS A WHITE FRENCH - ANNE MARIE DE RHUNE - ONE OF HIS SONS MARRIED TO A SPANISH CATHOLIC BEARING THE NAME DE RHUNE USED TO LIVE IN LONDON
 
ALAIN AND I ARE FOR RECONCILIATION, NOT VENGEANCE!
 
FOR PEACE, NOT WAR! 
 
BUT, AS ALL FRENCH CRAZIES, WE ARE READY TO FIGHT BY WHATEVER MEANS NECESSARY TO PROTECT OURSELVES, OUR LOVED ONES, AND OUR BELIEFS!
 
  JEW MARK ZUCKERBERG DID NOT LIKE IT AND TERMINATED MY FACEBOOK ACCOUNT IN SEPTEMBER 2020!

 I read that the victors mass murdered millions after the war as well as POW, and raped some 2 million European women???


THE ZIONIST ISRAELOPHITES ARE NOW PUBLICLY CAMPAIGNING (ABOVE) TO KILL, KILL, KILL MORE, BUT I WILL NOT PROMOTE THEIR GENOCIDAL CAMPAIGN, SO I REMOVED THE CALL FOR KILL, KILL, KILL!!!

WWII HISTORY IS A PACK OF LIES!  I AM THROWING AWAY ALL MY BOOKS (PROPAGANDA) ON IT!!! 

Achtung! 

Sunday, December 14, 2014

Eva Braun, Hitler's Maiden

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Eva Anna Paula Braun Hitler (6 February 1912 – 30 April 1945) is one of the most notorious women in history.

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Eva at the Berghof, looking in the general direction of the Eagle's Nest.
Eva was a professional photographer, an invaluable skill for someone in her position. Many of these pictures undoubtedly were taken by Eva or at least requested and arranged by her.

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Eva Braun relaxing in the mid-1930s. Who wears short shorts?
Eva also was quite toothsome and athletic, and not afraid to show it.

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This is a nice portrait of Eva. The soft-focus really isn't necessary, she was a very attractive young woman. This makes her look older than she was, which perhaps was intentional being that Hitler was much older.
Let's be real: Eva Braun has a very bad reputation in many quarters. To some extent, it is guilt by association, though Eva herself did some things that virtually anyone, at least in the 21st Century, would consider improper (such as posing in blackface). It is not that Eva Braun personally did anything terrible, but that she was the devoted consort of one Adolf Hitler, and he did terrible things.

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Eva enjoyed prancing about in peasant costumes. Hitler did at times, too, at least for some publicity shots.
Eva Braun was a closely guarded state secret, but she was just an ordinary girl. While we know all about her, ordinary Germans during World War II - and people outside the Reich's borders - would not have recognized the name. This is a clear case of something being obvious to us now that only became known after the war.

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Eva Braun in a surprisingly modern-looking outfit. She loved to take pictures of herself and Adolf playing with local animals. I can't make out what she is holding in her left hand.
Eva was from Munich.  Her family was of middle-class means. She had an older and younger sister.

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Eva Braun’s parents, Fritz and Franziska, Christmas 1940.
While raised as a Catholic, recent DNA testing on some of Eva's hair on one of her combs revealed a surprising truth: a sequence of DNA strongly associated with the Ashkenazi Jews. There also has been a DNA analysis of Adolf Hitler, with similar results.

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Eva's parents sent her to a convent in Simbach in the 1920s. She left the convent in mid-1929 and secured a job as 'girl Friday' to photographer Heinrich Hoffman.

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Eva did secretarial work and eventually learned how to use a camera and develop the film. She was quite athletic and kept herself in great shape for the times. Eva was quite happy swimming or bicycling or working out on the parallel bars.

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In 1929, at 17 years old, Eva was working at the studio as usual when she met a customer who introduced himself as 'Herr Wolff.' It was Adolf Hitler. Eva later told her sister Ilse:
“I’d stayed on after closing time to file some papers and I’d climbed up a ladder to fetch the files kept on the top shelves of the cupboard. At that moment the boss came in accompanied by a man of uncertain age with a funny moustache, a light-coloured, English-style overcoat and a big felt hat in his hand."
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Eva and her animals...
Hoffmann sent her out to buy beer and sausages and then invited Eva to join them. She recalled in her diary:
“The elderly gentleman (Hitler) was paying me compliments. We talked about music and a play at the Staatstheater, as I remember, with him devouring me with his eyes all the time."
Adolf was 23 years older than Eva. So, Hitler would have been about 40 when they met, not quite "elderly" but 40 may seem so to a teenager.

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Apparently, Eva wrote Hitler a note at this first meeting. She stuffed it in his pocket. Whatever it said, it was something fresh. After looking at it, Hitler asked if she was joking. She said no, she really liked him. This was the start of their relationship.

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Eva later recalled in a letter to Adolf Hitler:
"From our first meeting on, I have promised myself to follow you wherever you go, even to death. You know that I live only for your love."
Hitler liked Eva from the start. It probably did not hurt that Eva was in the photography business, and he was one of the most photographed men of his time who used pictures to create mass appeal.

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Eva's special talents as a photographer came in very handy for Hitler. Here she is taking one of the carefully posed propaganda photographs of Hitler with children that the government liked to distribute. It appears that she is wearing platform shoes, which did not hit peak fashionability for another few decades.
Eva's special skills matched Hitler's needs... Adolf began calling upon Eva.

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Eva with actress Else von Möllendorff.
Hitler was living with Geli Raubal, his niece, at the time. It is widely assumed that it was a romantic relationship. Geli and Hitler had a violent quarrel one day, 18 September 1931 - Geli wanted something that he refused to give her, perhaps, who knows, marriage or her freedom? - and shot herself after he left.

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Hitler and Geli.
Hitler went into a deep depression. Eva looked a bit like Geli, though thinner and more athletic, and was very comforting. After that, Hitler began to associate more with Eva. But that didn't mean that Hitler associated only with Eva.

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At first, Hitler had several mistresses alongside Eva - that may have been one of his issues with Geli, too. During the early months of 1932, though, Eva became Hitler's permanent mistress, part of his permanent stable.

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Eva at the Konigsee lake.
Hitler neglected Eva at times after that. During the spring of 1935, they had some issues and Hitler reportedly saw other women. She would write angry entries in her diary about how dismissive Hitler was to her, how Hitler took her for granted, how she just wanted to live a normal life with her man, and the like. However, Hitler always came back to her.

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Eva in 1935.
Eva attempted suicide in November 1932, and again in May 1935. Apparently, she thought Hitler was seeing other women - which he apparently was. Even in later years, Hitler at times would squire other women to the opera and so forth. That doesn't mean they were on the outs, though - it more likely was to keep Eva out of the society pages.

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Eva's favorite exercise spot at a nearby lake today. She would bring guests to go swimming with her, such as her gynecologist.
After the second attempt, Hitler bought Eva a house in Munich. He made her his 'private secretary' so she could come and go without too much fuss. She would travel with him at times, too, at least to nearby events, and stay hidden away in nearby rooms.

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Perhaps this is how Eva amused herself while waiting for Adolf to finish his boring speech before 100,000 people.
It was all very cozy and private. Hitler wanted to appear "available" to his female fans - some of his most fanatical and devoted supporters - and so Eva almost literally was kept in the closet.

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Hitler’s pilot, Hans Baur, later told author John Toland that he routinely flew Eva to visit Hitler. He would bring Eva around to Hitler's rooms, and there they would all visit. All very prim and proper. At some point, Baur would tactfully leave. As he told Toland, “who it was who escorted Eva back to her room, I don’t know, nor do I know how long her visits lasted.” Three's a crowd in such situations.

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 Eva Braun with Hitler in Berchtesgaden ca. 1944. Credit AP, photo from “Eva Braun: Life With Hitler” by Heike B. Görtemaker. 
Insiders revealed later that Eva and Hitler were virtually inseparable and vacationed together - even if Eva was cloistered away somewhere out of the spotlight. When separated, Hitler would randomly ring Eva, just like any other boyfriend.

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I thought this might be a candid snap of Hitler talking to Eva, but no dice. Instead, the Fuhrer is thanking Josef Burckel on the occasion of the Saar victory, on the morning of 15th January 1935. This is from "Adolf Hitler: Bilder aus dem Leben des Fuhrers," published in 1935. However... I bet he lit up when talking to his main squeeze, too. This may have been taken by Eva.
On New Year's Eve in 1936, Hitler held a huge diplomatic reception. It was a very formal occasion, and Eva's presence - largely unknown to the public - would not have been appropriate. However, she was on his mind.

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Hitler wishing his guests a happy new year on New Year's Eve 1936. Not exactly showing a lot of warmth without Eva around. He went back inside after this and called her.
Hitler eventually got rid of his guests with a "Hitler Salute," above, and then set aside time to ring up Eva and wish her a happy New Year. She handed the phone to her sister Gretl and her boyfriend, with whom they were celebrating, saying “Hey, it’s time to wish your Fuehrer a Happy New Year!”

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Joseph Goebbels, Eva Braun, Johanna Wolf, Albert Speer and another man at the Berghof. Albert Speer is off to the side looking a bit glum. He was not a big fan of Eva's, and said once, "Historians will be very disappointed in Eva Braun." However, he was wrong, because Eva captured many fleeting moments at the Berghof with her cameras that help bring the mountain retreat to life. Eva's skill with the camera may have been one of her more attractive qualities to Hitler; narcissists love the adoration of a girl always around snapping their picture.
Eva began visiting Berchtesgaden, and at first, stayed at the Hotel Berchtesgadener Hof (a Party hotel frequented by Hitler himself before he took over the Berghof). Eva soon had her own quarters at his place. Eventually, Eva took over and Hitler kicked Geli Raubal's mother Angela (his own half-sister) out of the mountain retreat in the late 1930s. Angela had run the household for years (they had numerous servants, all unsophisticated local girls who did not even know who Hitler was). Two hens in the henhouse is one too many, and inevitably the two crossed swords. After Angela's departure, Eva had free reign. Nobody dared to cross her after that. With Hitler usually in Berlin, Eva had the run of the mansion with its spectacular views. Everybody who went to the Berghof knew about Eva, but nobody talked about her in public.

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Hitler bought Eva jewelry from 1939-1944, though she is not usually shown wearing much. He did it in a clandestine manner. Martin Bormann would bring over some choices, and Hitler would grab something. Hitler simply could not go out and pick up fancy jewelry like “a normal and inconspicuous person,” as he put it. Word soon gets around if the Fuehrer of Greater Germany is seen buying diamond rings and necklaces and the like.

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Eva Braun in 1940, showing a little leg.
Hitler and Eva also corresponded regularly. Hitler spent a lot of time in Berlin, while Eva spent the vast majority of her time at Berchtesgaden. She rarely visited Berlin (or the rougher military headquarters where Hitler spent extended periods of time, such as in the Wolf's Lair in East Prussia and Ukraine). Braun family friend Nerin E. Gun wrote Eva Braun-Hitler: Leben und Schicksal (New York and Bruchsal/Baden, 1968). It included a few previously unknown letters (and many Eva diary entries), but there apparently were many more that Gun did not have.

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In "The Psychopathic God," Robert Waite renders a letter Adolf Hitler wrote to Eva Braun shortly after the attempt on his life in July 1944:
"Mein Liebes Tschapperl ("My sweet little girl"),
Don't worry about me. I'm fine though perhaps a little tired. I hope to come home soon and then I can rest in your arms. I have a great longing for rest, but my duty to the German people comes before everything else. Don't forget that the dangers I encounter don't compare with those of our soldiers at the Front. I thank you for the proof of your affection and ask you also to thank your esteemed father and your most gracious mother for their greetings and good wishes. I am very proud of the honor - please tell them that - to possess the love of girl who comes from such a distinguished family. I have sent to you the uniform I was wearing during the unfortunate day. It is proof that Providence has protected me and that we have nothing more to fear from our enemies. 
From my whole heart, your A.H."
"Tschapperl" is a word in an Austrian dialect that doesn't have a good translation. It is something along the lines of "My sweet little cupcake" or "Honeybunny." No matter how you translate it, someone will disagree and have a "better" translation. Let's just say that Hitler would not have used it with any of his generals.

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Part of Hitler's uniform from "the unfortunate day."
Since Eva's film survived at Berchtesgaden, it is possible Hitler's letters to her did as well - but they are lost. Perhaps a GI picked them up and mailed them home with his kit and they are sitting in someone's attic in Dallas or Atlanta or Shreveport. However, they also simply could have been left where they were or destroyed in the bomb blast that destroyed the Berghof. It would have been dangerous for any locals to go up there and bring stuff out.

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Eva took good care of Adolf's dogs.
I was debating whether to bring this up, but I might as well because people are fascinated by Eva Braun. So, let's "go there." According to Dr. Hani Miletski in her book "Understanding Bestiality and Zoophila," there are "strong rumors" that Eva Braun was into dogs. Really into dogs. As in... well, look at the title of that book.

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This was likely taken at the Konigsee.
I won't explain any further, because there may be children reading. But one theory is that Adolf's peculiar fascination with his two German Shepherds Bella and Blondi may have had something to do with Eva's, you know, predilections. Dr. Miletski argues that women who are into that sort of scene are more interested in the relationship aspects of it than with more, um, mechanical aspects... Hitler, as mentioned, was gone a lot. Having a canine companion is not unusual for anyone, of course. Eva had quite a few at the Berghof. Just because one loves dogs doesn't necessarily mean anything.

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Eva and her sister Gretl (married to the infamous Fegelein) at the Berghof in 1943, along with a furry friend.
I know, you're "outraged" that this "scurrilous defamation" by Eva's and Adolf's "political enemies" should be repeated. Look, I'm only the messenger, take it up with Dr. Miletski. But notice the absence of cats..... Okay, after that, I have to give you a rare picture of Eva with a cat - and yes, it was difficult to find.

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This picture of a youthful Eva with a cat looks as though it was taken ca. 1930. It likely was one of her earliest selfies. Meow!
Ok, getting back on track...

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Else von Möllendorff. Shot probably taken by Eva.
Eva retained her interest in film and photography throughout her days at Berchtesgaden. Many of the behind-the-scenes photographs at the Berghof and elsewhere were taken by Eva, including extensive and sometimes elaborate movies (with title cards, fancy editing, and the works). Altogether, the Library of Congress has four and a half hours of Eva's home movies, many in color.

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Eva in a rare unposed shot, taken at the Kehlsteinhaus (Eagle's Nest). This also is a rare shot because Hitler only went up to the Eagle's Nest seven times. It was taken during the reception after the wedding of Eva Braun's younger sister Gretl to SS-Gruppenfuhrer Hermann Fegelein, of Heinrich Himmler's staff, on 3 June 1944. I like this photo because it shows Hitler as totally camera-conscious, whereas Eva doesn't give a fig. Note how the photographer subtly "crowns" Hitler. It is just three days before D-Day, and Hitler looks incredibly vibrant. Photos that were taken afterward (and after the Soviet offensive that began a few weeks later) always show him as a broken-down wreck with graying hair, stooped and twitching. (National Archives)
Eva went on some excursions without Hitler: to Denmark on the cruise ship Robert Ley in 1939, to Italy in 1941 with a film crew, to local lakes, and up to the Eagle's Nest. She apparently was fun-loving and guileless. Take that as you will, Eva Braun certainly is not admired by everyone.

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A lilac pair of Eva Braun's knickers sold at auction house Philip Serrell, for £2,900 in November 2016.
Incidentally, regarding that trip to Italy, there may have been more to it than a simple tourist trip. There is a theory that Eva suffered from Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome, a rare gynecological condition that afflicts about one in every 5000 girls. MRKH causes underdeveloped reproductive organs, which in Eva's case may have meant that she had an underdeveloped vaginal canal and uterus. There is circumstantial evidence that Eva's personal doctor, Dr. Gustav Scholten of Munich, performed an operation to enlarge her canal in Munich Or, Eva may have traveled to Italy to either to have or to recover from the operation in order to avoid publicity.

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Part of this theory is that Eva and Adolf never had intimate relations, and there is some evidence for that, too. All of this is mere speculation based upon circumstantial evidence (including some of Eva's comments to others, such as her Italian translator Eugen Dollman that she and Adolf were never intimate, though Eva was known to be dramatic at times). These scattered bits of evidence are used by historians to try to pierce the mystery of Hitler's relationship with Braun which will forever remain murky. Again, that Eva had MRKH is only a theory, but there is good evidence that Eva did have some kind of gynecological surgery around this time.

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On 15 April 1945, Eva left Berchtesgaden - against Hitler's orders - and flew to Berlin on one of the last Lufthansa flights of the war. She stayed in the bunker until the end.

Eva Braun and Albert Speer


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Eva Braun and Albert Speer.
Albert Speer had a lot to say about Eva Braun and is one of our few primary sources. Speer is a special case, because he was one of the very few from the inner circle who survived the war, was interrogated immediately after it, and then spent decades reminiscing about it and elaborating on his earlier characterizations. The public image of Speer is of someone who to one extent or another rehabilitated himself by being properly repentant, making various noises about rejecting Hitler during the last days of the Third Reich and uttering socially conscious statements after entering the book-peddling circuit of the 1960s and 1970s.

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Original color photo of Eva Braun by Hugo Jaeger.
This article is not about Speer so I won't go further into the twists and turns of his life here. However, it is important for historians to remember that the picture painted by our sources reflects not just on the people being talked about, but the speaker himself, and Speer did not have a consistent view of Eva Braun over time. That said, Speer's recollections remain of value even if they are, shall we say, nuanced because Speer at least knew both Hitler and Eva Braun and lived to tell about it.

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Speer and Hitler at the Wolfschanze during the war.
Speer was interrogated - it was more of a debriefing, interrogating sounds a lot more intimidating than it apparently was - on 1 August 1945. The questions, at least about Eva Braun, were exceedingly general, such as "Who was Fraulein BRAUN and what was her influence?" and "What were his [Hitler's] relations with women?" One must recall that Braun was shielded from public view, and even those in the German government outside the top tiers likely never heard about her aside from perhaps some idle gossip. So, one must give credit to the American questions for even thinking to ask about her at all.

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Hitler apparently giving Speer some kind of award, March/June 1943 (Heinrich Hoffmann, Federal Archives). 
Speer, without much prompting, gave a fairly generous portrayal of Braun (who already was assumed to be dead at this point). He called her a "modest woman" who did not "exploit" her position nor try to influence Hitler. The quote everyone uses is this:
For all writers of history she is going to be a disappointment.
He goes on to say that she was very athletic (as can be seen in her self-made films). He does shade her slightly:
Outwardly she often appeared conceited and haughty. That, however, was due to her inferiority complex; for her social position at OBERSALZBERG was not clearly defined [emphasis in original].
Then he quickly cleans that up with another quote that is widely bandied about:
Of all those who during the last weeks lived together in the BERLIN shelter, she was one of the bravest, and probably also the most intelligent. She wanted to stay in BERLIN and die with HITLER [emphasis in original].
He emphasized that there were genuine feelings of love between the two. After noting that Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels had acted as a procurer of women for him during the 1930s, Speer notes:
He [Hitler] appears, however, to have always remained true to the woman he loved, Fraulein EVA BRAUN. Her love was very significant for him; he spoke of her with great respect and deep reverence. He knew that he could have had any number of women; this he rejected, for, as he jokingly said, he did not know whether they would prefer him as "Reich Chancellor" or as ADOLF HITLER [emphasis in original].
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I noted above that characterizations by our first-hand witnesses reflect upon the speaker as much as the person spoken of. This is the case with Speer. He had 20 years in Spandau Prison to mull everything over and figure out what nuances in his characterizations would best match the current Zeitgeist. His books written during that stay and afterward - he famously smuggled out writings written on toilet paper and the like - such as "Inside the Third Reich" and "Spandau: The Secret Diaries" tells a much different tale. Here is a quote from a 12 April 1976 interview with Speer published in People Magazine, when his latest book was riding high on the sales charts. The question posed was, "Was Hitler’s marriage to Eva Braun just before his suicide merely for the record, related to his concern with his place in posterity?":
It could have been. On the other hand, it could also have been because he was really touched that she, against his wishes, came to join him in Berlin at the end. It would be wrong to assume that Hitler was a man without the ability to show and experience sentimental feelings. Nevertheless, his relationship to Eva Braun was abominable. He always treated her like a fifth-rate person. I pitied her.
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Speer was intelligent but also a calculating fellow. We always must remember that when discussing his later writings and interviews.
Such talk about treating Eva like a "fifth-rate person" and pitying her is a much different picture than Speer gave in his 1945 interrogation, where, without prodding, he mentions Hitler's "great respect and deep reverence" for Eva Braun. By 1976, Speer basically makes it sound as if Eva was one step from being sent to a concentration camp. Of course, this latter characterization perfectly matched the stereotypes of the time (and to some extent today) of Hitler as a pure monster with no capacity for love or any real emotions or affection (but note how Speer cleverly denies the stereotype before leaping into it with both feet). The quote also hints at Eva as a victim - a quality which would help redeem virtually anyone in the 1970s, when victimhood was next to saintliness. In effect, with Germany marching Leftward, Speer has drawn the measure of his audience and tailored his message to it. Speer's 1945 portrayal, however, more closely matches other sources. Draw your own conclusions, but personally, I trust statements made closer in time to events being described as opposed to those made 30 years later, when the world has changed and attributing any positive qualities whatsoever to Hitler might impact book sales and invitations to fancy soirées.

Anyway, let's get back to Eva Braun.

The Final Days

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Happier times for Eva at the Berghof.
After arriving in the bunker on April 15, 1945, Eva at first was hopeful. This actually was in line with the prevailing sentiment in the bunker, because the final Soviet assault on Berlin which began on 16 April appeared to be stalling out. In fact, the Wehrmacht defenses on the Oder were engaged in a death struggle which gave the German high command hope for several days. General Keitel, for instance, claimed that if an attack could be contained for three days, it had failed, and the 19th was the fourth day of the Soviet offensive.

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Herta Schneider and Eva Braun. An author who claims to have seen private documents asserts that Eva wrote at least two final letters from the bunker to Herta, who survived the war.
Anna Maria Sigmund, in "The Women of the Nazis," claims to have seen letters typed by Eva (or perhaps by Hitler's secretaries for Eva) to friend Herta Schneider. The Schneider estate kept the letters before auctioning them off to a private collector sometime around the turn of the 21st Century. How Schneider got the letters in the Reich's final days is a bit of a mystery, but Hitler still held complete control over everything still under German control and could get things such as mail delivery done. In a letter dated 19 April 1945, Eva writes to Schneider in an optimistic vein:
We already hear the artillery fire from the eastern front and bombs fall from attack planes every day.... I'm very happy right now to be close to [Hitler].... I am convinced that everything will turn out alright in the end and [Hitler] is hopeful as he seldom is.
The optimism did not last. It is generally accepted that the German front around Berlin finally caved in the very next day, Hitler's birthday, 20 April 1945. A couple of days later, Hitler had his famous breakdown in which he finally accepted that the war was lost. That day, 22 April 1945, Eva wrote another letter to Schneider (apparently her last):
We are fighting here until the last but I'm afraid the end is threatening closer and closer.... I cannot tell friends what I personally suffer from the Fuhrer.... I cannot understand how everything could be so, but one cannot believe in a God!... Greetings to my friends, I'm dying how I've lived. It's not difficult for me. You know that.
It's interesting that Eva refers to her man in this final letter as "the Fuhrer," not by his name. Formalities were retained up to the last.

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There were some final visits by various officials and the local military commanders as the Soviets approached, but the die was cast. The situation in the bunker deteriorated further after Albert Speer left on the 24th, with no military or diplomatic relief possible. Everyone understood the situation, apparently, Hitler most of all, which no doubt accounts for his sour mood to which Eva obliquely refers in her letters to Schneider. Speer noted that even by the 24th:
[S]he [Eva Braun] had detached herself from life. She was calm and determined and, at this time, one of the few who were faithful to ADOLF HITLER - perhaps the only one. Earlier, HITLER had already asserted with resignation that he had only one friend who would remain loyal to the end in his decisive hour, and that was EVA BRAUN [emphasis in original].
As the days dwindled, Hitler had Eva's brother-in-law Hermann Fegelein shot for being a nuisance ("desertion," supposedly). It was the last gasp of tyranny. Test pilot Hanna Reitsch made an extremely risky flight into Berlin with Luftwaffe General Greim, but Hitler refused to leave and Reitsch flew back out again only with Greim. The end was inevitable, and Hitler better than anyone else in the world knew how little time remained. He decided on 28 April 1945 that there was no longer any need for pretense. He asked his people to find someone to marry them. Goebbels recalled that he himself had been married by one Walter Wagner, a Berlin Justice of the Peace, so someone was sent out to find him. Somewhat incredibly (during the final days in the bunker with the Soviets literally down the block!), Wagner was located in a Volkssturm detachment defending the vicinity. Wagner came in, married Hitler and Eva on the afternoon of the 29th, and then left to return to obscurity.

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On 30 April 1945, Adolf Hitler held his final staff conference and was informed that the Russians now were only a few blocks away. He had lunch as usual at 2 o’clock in the afternoon with his two secretaries and his cook. He then made systematic preparations to commit suicide. Hitler perhaps could have waited another day, but that was May Day, and he did not wish to commit suicide on a day of celebration for the Soviet Union.

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Hitler and Eva on 20 April 1944, Hitler's 55th birthday. The war is going poorly and Hitler looks worn, but Eva is in fine form. The spring of 1944 may have been a difficult time for the Reich, but somewhat paradoxically it was a very happy time for Eva because Hitler spent a lot of time at the Berghof with her. The Allies did not bomb Berchtesgaden for another year.
Hitler first supervised the poisoning of his beloved dog Blondi (this may have taken place the day before) and her pups. Shortly after 3 p.m. on 30 April, Hitler and Eva Braun bade farewell to the staff assembled in the bunker, then retired to their private room to meet their joint fate.

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They bit into thin glass vials of cyanide - as he did so, Hitler also shot himself in the head with a 7.65 mm Walther pistol.

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Heinz Linge, Hitler’s personal valet, recalled how he entered Hitler’s suite and saw Hitler almost upright in a sitting position on a blood-soaked sofa. Eva Braun lay on the sofa beside him, but she had made no use of the revolver at her side, preferring to rely on the poison instead. A small hole showed on his right temple and a trickle of blood ran slowly down over his cheek. The pistol lay on the floor where it had dropped from his right hand.

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Soldiers inspect the couch where Adolf Hitler and Frau Hitler committed suicide. The soldier in the foreground appears to be looking at the bloodstains on the carpet. It would have been quite dark in there (without the photographer's flash) if all they had was candles. It would not surprise me at all if this was some kind of "re-creation" or dramatization of "the moment" when they entered the bunker.
SS Staff Sgt. Rochus Misch also was in the bunker but did not witness the suicides.

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Eva in blackface.
Eva Braun’s face looked perfectly normal: “It was as though she had fallen asleep…” Linge recalled. Eva was 33.

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The official story from Soviet records is that the bodies of Hitler and Eva were carried out into the yard outside the bunker and burned with gasoline. The Soviets found the charred remains and moved them to East Germany for examination. Ultimately, the remains were pulverized and thrown into a tributary of the Elbe on 4 April 1970. That is the Soviet account, and there is no hard evidence to either support it or undermine it. Not a trace remains.

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Adolf Hitler and Eva with Ursula “Uschi” Schneider. 
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An oddly intimate photo of Hitler with another woman whilst Eva was his main squeeze. As pointed out by a helpful commenter, it was taken in ski resort Garmisch Partenkirchen (later home to a major US military base). The lady appears to be Eva. This is a rare shot of Hitler relaxing, thus this is an astonishing picture, especially given the possessive placement of Hitler's right hand. This is one of a sequence of pictures of Hitler sitting there gazing out the window etc., most with Eva cropped out. (Tentative Credit: ullstein bild).

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Apparently Eva after a swim. Compare the pictures directly above, which apparently was taken before she got wet.
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Below is home movie footage shot by Eva Braun. It is in color, which is quite unusual for the time period. Color footage required many times the cost of black and white film, but no cost was too great for the Fuhrer's mistress. Because of that, we have exceptional footage of Hitler, Berchtesgaden, the cruise and other vacations that Eva went on, and Eva practicing on the parallel bars and going swimming and everything else that she liked to do. She rather ostentatiously creates title cards, but unfortunately, there is no sound to these films. Seriously, these films look like they were only shot ten or twenty years ago, not at a time when virtually all Hollywood films were shown in black and white. Some scenes are also in slow motion, which did not become a television network staple until the 1970s.


Incidentally, if you are looking for more pictures of Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler, you might like to visit Putschgirl's site on Tumblr. I have no connection to that site, but whoever runs it has an uncanny way of uncovering obscure photos of the Third Reich, and some photos here are duplicates of what is on there.

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4 comments:

  1. Dear Mr. Bjorkman, About the intimate photograph of Hitler sitting with a lady next to a huge plate glass window, the location is Garmisch Partenkirchen and the date is definitely April 1, 1935. Please go to Google Images and key in - Hitler at Garmisch Partenkirchen - there are three such photographs of Hitler which have been cropped to leave out the female companion. The captions in German translated into English show that Hitler was relaxing over a cup of coffee on April 1, 1935 at that venue. The photographer is certainly Heinrich Hoffmann. The lady is definitely Baroness Sigrid von Laffert. Please see the link below :-

    http://www.gettyimages.in/detail/news-photo/politiker-nsdap-d-vorstellung-die-lustige-witwe-im-news-photo/541061795

    The above photograph shows Hitler attending an opera performance of " The Merry Widow " at the Charlottenberg Opera House, Berlin on December 31, 1935. Sigrid von Laffert is seated next to Hitler. Eva Braun was kept out of the public's gaze to protect Hitler's image in the eyes of the German people as a knight in shining armour. Magda Goebbels and Sigrid bon Laffert bestow the middle class morality with which Hitler humbugged his fawning followers.

    Regards,
    Raja

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  2. Thanks very much once again, Raja. Completely agree that its Garmisch, thanks for finding those shots. How did you know that it was taken there? As to it being Sigrid, I will go with that, too. Interesting insight how they tailored Hitler's image in this fashion.

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    1. You may be right. Doesn't look like Eva to me, but everyone will draw their own conclusions, thanks for contributing.

  3. Dear Mr. Bjorkman, Given that the Swiss alps were in the background, it was a toss up between the Berghof and Garmisch. Google provided the answers. Actually, Eva Braun performed a vital role in depicting Hitler in a humanizing way - she took a lot of photographs and shot amateur films which show Hitler in a natural manner without wearing the mask or playacting the Great Leader which he was prone to do in a public gaze. Count Ciano (the Italian Foreign Minister) never glimpsed Eva Braun but his roving eye alighted on Sigrid von Laffert (she was born in 1918 and thus 29 years younger than Hitler) and he mentioned her in his diary as a likely mistress of Hitler. Whereas the Baroness was just a pretty aristocrat whose proximity was used by Hitler to woo the Prussian nobility to gain social acceptance as he had an inferiority complex about his social status. He wanted the military and industry (both teeming with Prussian nobility) to help in accelerating rearmament to further his grandiose dreams.

    Regards,
    Raja

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