Английская Википедия:Eva Braun

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Eva Anna Paula Hitler (Шаблон:Nee; 6 February 1912 – 30 April 1945) was a German photographer who was the longtime companion and briefly the wife of Adolf Hitler. Braun met Hitler in Munich when she was a 17-year-old assistant and model for his personal photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann. She began seeing Hitler often about two years later.

She attempted suicide twice during their early relationship. By 1936, Braun was a part of Hitler's household at the Berghof near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany, and lived a sheltered life throughout World War II. She became a significant figure within Hitler's inner social circle, but did not attend public events with him until mid-1944, when her sister Gretl married Hermann Fegelein, the SS liaison officer on his staff.

As Nazi Germany was collapsing towards the end of the war, Braun swore loyalty to Hitler and went to Berlin to be by his side in the heavily reinforced Шаблон:Lang beneath the Reich Chancellery garden. As Red Army troops fought their way into the centre government district, on 29 April 1945, Braun married Hitler during a brief civil ceremony; she was 33 and he was 56. Less than 40 hours later, they died by suicide in a sitting room of the bunker: Braun by biting and swallowing a capsule of cyanide, and Hitler by a gunshot to the head. The German public was unaware of Braun's relationship with Hitler until after their deaths. Many of the surviving colour photographs and films of Hitler were taken by Braun.

Early life

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Eva's mother, Franziska Braun

Eva Braun was born in Munich and was the second daughter of school teacher Friedrich "Fritz" Braun (1879–1964)Шаблон:Sfn and Franziska "Fanny" Kronberger (1885–1976);Шаблон:Sfn her mother had worked as a seamstress before her marriage.Шаблон:Sfn She had an elder sister, Ilse (1909–1979), and a younger sister, Margarete (Gretl) (1915–1987). Her father was a Lutheran and her mother a Catholic.Шаблон:Sfn

Braun's parents divorced in April 1921 but remarried in November 1922, probably for financial reasons; hyperinflation was plaguing the German economy at the time.Шаблон:Sfn 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.Шаблон:Sfn

At age 17, Braun took a job working for Heinrich Hoffmann, the official photographer for the Nazi Party.Шаблон:Sfn Initially employed as a shop assistant and sales clerk, she soon learned how to use a camera and develop photographs.Шаблон:Sfn She met Adolf Hitler, 23 years her senior, at Hoffmann's studio in Munich in October 1929. He had been introduced to her as "Herr Wolff".Шаблон:Sfn Braun's younger sister, Gretl, also worked for Hoffmann from 1932 onward. The women rented an apartment together for a time. Gretl often accompanied Eva on her subsequent trips with Hitler to Obersalzberg.Шаблон:Sfn

Relationship with Hitler

Hitler lived with his half-niece, Geli Raubal, in an apartment at Prinzregentenplatz 16 in Munich from 1929 until her death in 1931.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn On 18 September of that year, Raubal was found dead in the apartment with a gunshot wound to the chest, an apparent suicide with Hitler's pistol. Hitler was in Nuremberg at the time. His relationship with Raubal—likely the most intense of his life—had been important to him.Шаблон:Sfn Hitler began seeing more of Braun after Raubal's suicide.

Braun herself attempted suicide on 10 or 11 August 1932 by shooting herself in the chest with her father's pistol.Шаблон:Sfn Historians feel the attempt was not serious, but was a bid for Hitler's attention.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn After Braun's recovery, Hitler became more committed to her and by the end of 1932 they had become lovers.Шаблон:Sfn She often stayed overnight at his Munich apartment when he was in town.Шаблон:Sfn Beginning in 1933, Braun worked as a photographer for Hoffmann.Шаблон:Sfn This position enabled her to travel—accompanied by Hoffmann—with Hitler's entourage as a photographer for the Nazi Party.Шаблон:Sfn Later in her career, she worked for Hoffmann's art press.Шаблон:Sfn

According to a fragment of her diary and the account of biographer Nerin Gun, Braun's second suicide attempt occurred in May 1935. She took an overdose of sleeping pills when Hitler failed to make time for her in his life.Шаблон:Sfn Hitler provided Braun and her sister with a three-bedroom apartment in Munich that August,Шаблон:Sfn and the next year the sisters were provided with a villa in Bogenhausen at Wasserburgerstr. 12 (now Delpstr. 12).Шаблон:Sfn By 1936, Braun was at Hitler's household at the Berghof near Berchtesgaden whenever he was in residence there, but she lived mostly in Munich.Шаблон:Sfn Braun also had her own apartment at the new Reich Chancellery in Berlin, completed to a design by Albert Speer.Шаблон:Sfn

Braun was a member of Hoffmann's staff when she attended the Nuremberg Rally for the first time in 1935. Hitler's half-sister, Angela Raubal (Geli's mother), took exception to her presence there and was later dismissed from her position as housekeeper at the Berghof. Researchers are unable to ascertain if her dislike for Braun was the only reason for her departure, but other members of Hitler's entourage saw Braun as untouchable from then on.Шаблон:Sfn

Hitler wished to present himself in the image of a chaste hero; in the Nazi ideology, men were the political leaders and warriors, and women were homemakers.Шаблон:Sfn Hitler believed that he was sexually attractive to women and wished to exploit this for political gain by remaining single, as he felt marriage would decrease his appeal.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn He and Braun never appeared as a couple in public; the only time they appeared together in a published news photo was when she sat near him at the 1936 Winter Olympics. The German people were unaware of Braun's relationship with Hitler until after the war.Шаблон:Sfn Braun had her own room adjoining Hitler's at both the Berghof and the Шаблон:Lang complex beneath the Reich Chancellery garden in Berlin.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Biographer Heike Görtemaker wrote that women did not play a big role in the politics of Nazi Germany.Шаблон:Sfn Braun's political influence on Hitler was minimal; she was never allowed to stay in the room when business or political conversations took place and was sent out of the room when cabinet ministers or other dignitaries were present.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn She was not a member of the Nazi Party.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn In his post-war memoirs, Hoffmann characterized Braun's outlook as "inconsequential and feather-brained";Шаблон:Sfn her main interests were sports, clothes, and the cinema. She led a sheltered and privileged existence and seemed uninterested in politics.Шаблон:Sfn One instance when she took an interest was in 1943, shortly after Germany had fully transitioned to a total war economy; among other things, this meant a potential ban on women's cosmetics and luxuries. According to Speer's memoirs, Braun approached Hitler in "high indignation"; Hitler quietly instructed Speer, who was armaments minister at the time, to halt production of women's cosmetics and luxuries rather than instituting an outright ban.Шаблон:Sfn Speer later said, "Eva Braun will prove a great disappointment to historians."Шаблон:Sfn

Braun continued to work for Hoffmann after commencing her relationship with Hitler. She took many photographs and films of members of Hitler's inner circle, some of which were sold to Hoffmann for extremely high prices; she received money from Hoffmann's company as late as 1943. Braun also held the position of private secretary to Hitler.Шаблон:Sfn This guise meant she could enter and leave the Chancellery unremarked, though she used a side entrance and a rear staircase.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Görtemaker notes that Braun and Hitler enjoyed a normal sex life.Шаблон:Sfn Braun's friends and relatives described Eva giggling over a 1938 photograph of Neville Chamberlain sitting on a sofa in Hitler's Munich flat with the remark: "If only he knew what goings-on that sofa has seen."Шаблон:Sfn

On 3 June 1944, Braun's sister Gretl married SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein, who served as Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler's liaison officer on Hitler's staff. Hitler used the marriage as an excuse to allow Braun to appear at official functions, as she could then be introduced as Fegelein's sister-in-law.Шаблон:Sfn When Fegelein was caught in the closing days of the war trying to escape to Sweden or Switzerland, Hitler ordered his execution.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn He was shot for desertion in the garden of the Reich Chancellery on 28 April 1945.Шаблон:Sfn

Lifestyle

When Hitler purchased the Berghof in 1933, it was a small holiday home on the mountain at Obersalzberg. Renovations began in 1934 and were completed by 1936. A large wing was added onto the original house and several additional buildings were constructed. The entire area was fenced off, and remaining houses on the mountain were purchased by the Nazi Party and demolished. Braun and the other members of the entourage were cut off from the outside world when in residence. Speer, Hermann Göring, and Martin Bormann had houses constructed inside the compound.Шаблон:Sfn

Hitler's valet, Heinz Linge, stated in his memoirs that Hitler and Braun had two bedrooms and two bathrooms with interconnecting doors at the Berghof, and Hitler would end most evenings alone with her in his study before they retired to bed. She would wear a "dressing gown or house-coat" and drink wine; Hitler would have tea.Шаблон:Sfn Public displays of affection or physical contact were nonexistent, even in the enclosed world of the Berghof.Шаблон:Sfn Braun took the role of hostess amongst the regular visitors, though she was not involved in running the household. She regularly invited friends and family members to accompany her during her stays, the only guest to do so.Шаблон:Sfn

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Braun and Hitler, June 1942

When Henriette von Schirach suggested that Braun should go into hiding after the war, Braun replied, "Do you think I would let him die alone? I will stay with him up until the last moment".Шаблон:Sfn Hitler named Braun in his will, to receive 12,000 Reichsmarks yearly after his death.Шаблон:Sfn He was very fond of her, and worried when she participated in sports or was late returning for tea.Шаблон:Sfn

Braun was very fond of Negus and Stasi, her two Scottish Terrier dogs, and they appear in her home movies. She usually kept them away from Hitler's German Shepherd, Blondi.Шаблон:Sfn Blondi was killed by one of Hitler's entourage on 29 April 1945 when he ordered that one of the cyanide capsules obtained for Braun and Hitler's suicide the next day be tested on the dog.Шаблон:Sfn Braun's dogs and Blondi's puppies were shot on 30 April by Hitler's dog handler, Fritz Tornow.Шаблон:Sfn

Marriage and suicide

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In early April 1945, Braun travelled from Munich to Berlin to be with Hitler at the Führerbunker. She refused to leave as the Red Army closed in on the capital.Шаблон:Sfn After midnight on the night of 28–29 April, Hitler and Braun were married in a small civil ceremony within the bunker.Шаблон:Sfn The event was witnessed by Joseph Goebbels and Martin Bormann. Thereafter, Hitler hosted a modest wedding breakfast with his new wife.Шаблон:Sfn When Braun married Hitler, her legal name changed to Eva Hitler. When she signed her marriage certificate, she wrote the letter B for her family name, then crossed this out and replaced it with Hitler.Шаблон:Sfn

After 1:00 pm on 30 April 1945, Braun and Hitler said their farewells to staff and members of the inner circle.Шаблон:Sfn Later that afternoon, at approximately 3:30 pm, several people reported hearing a loud gunshot.Шаблон:Sfn After waiting a few minutes, Linge, accompanied by Hitler's SS adjutant, Otto Günsche, entered the small study and found the lifeless bodies of Hitler and Braun on a small sofa. Braun had bitten into a cyanide capsule,Шаблон:Sfn and Hitler had shot himself in the right temple with his pistol.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The corpses were carried up the stairs and through the bunker's emergency exit to the garden behind the Reich Chancellery, where they were burned during the Red Army shelling in and around the area.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Braun was 33 years old when she died and Adolf Hitler was 56.Шаблон:Sfn

By 11 May, Hitler's dentist's assistant Käthe Heusermann and dental technician Fritz Echtmann identified dental remains as belonging to Hitler and Braun.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The remains of Joseph and Magda Goebbels, the six Goebbels children, General Hans Krebs, and Hitler's dogs were repeatedly buried and exhumed, with the last location being the SMERSH compound in Magdeburg, East Germany.Шаблон:Sfn Hitler and Braun's remains were alleged to have been moved as well, but this is most likely Soviet disinformation. There is no evidence that any bodily remains of Hitler or BraunШаблон:Sndwith the exception of the dental remainsШаблон:Sndwere found by the Soviets.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn On 4 April 1970, a Soviet KGB team with detailed burial charts secretly exhumed five wooden boxes of remains in Magdeburg. The remains were thoroughly burned and crushed, after which the ashes were thrown into the Biederitz river, a tributary of the nearby Elbe.Шаблон:Sfn

The rest of Braun's family survived the war. Her mother, Franziska, died at age 91 in January 1976, having lived out her days in an old farmhouse in Ruhpolding, Bavaria.Шаблон:Sfn Her father, Fritz, died in 1964. Gretl gave birth to a daughter—whom she named Eva—on 5 May 1945. She later married Kurt Beringhoff, a businessman. She died in 1987.Шаблон:Sfn Braun's elder sister, Ilse, was not part of Hitler's inner circle. She married twice and died in 1979.Шаблон:Sfn

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