Eva Braun bio.
Title: Eva Braun bio.
Category: /History/War & Conflicts
Details: Words: 508 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Eva Braun bio.
Category: /History/War & Conflicts
Details: Words: 508 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Hitler's mistress from 1932 and his wife during the last few hours of his life, Eva Braun was born in Munich, the daughter of a school teacher. Of middle-class Catholic background, she first met Hitler in the studio of his photographer friend, Heinrich Hoffmann (q.v.), in 1929, describing him to her sister, Ilse, as "a gentleman of a certain age with a funny moustache and carrying a big felt hat."
At that time Eva Braun still
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were finally married. The next day she committed suicide by swallowing poison, two minutes before Hitler took his own life. On Hitler's orders, both bodies were cremated with petrol in the Reich Chancellery garden above the bunker. Her charred corpse was later discovered by the Russians.
The rest of Eva Braun's family survived the war. Her mother, Franziska, who lived in an old farmhouse in Ruhpolding, Bavaria, died at the age of ninety-six, in January 1976.