Английская Википедия:Gretl Braun
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Margarete Berta "Gretl" Berlinghoff (née Braun; Шаблон:IPA; 31 August 1915 – 10 October 1987) was one of the two sisters of Eva Braun. She was a member of the inner social circle of Adolf Hitler at the Berghof. Gretl became the sister-in-law of Hitler following his marriage to Eva, less than 40 hours before the couple killed themselves.
Braun married SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein, a liaison officer on Hitler's staff, on 3 June 1944. In the closing days of World War II, Fegelein was shot for desertion. Despite Gretl's ties to the Nazi regime, she managed to survive the war nearly completely unscathed. She changed her name, remarried, and lived a quiet life until her death in 1987.
Early life
Braun was the youngest of three daughters of school teacher Friedrich "Fritz" Braun and seamstress Franziska "Fanny" Kronberger.Шаблон:Sfn After dropping out of secondary school at the age of 16,Шаблон:Sfn she worked as a clerk for the photography company of Heinrich Hoffmann, the official photographer for the Nazi Party, who also employed her sister Eva.Шаблон:Sfn Hitler provided the sisters with a three-bedroom apartment in Munich in August 1935, Шаблон:Sfn and the next year with a villa in Bogenhausen.Шаблон:Sfn Their father was not pleased with this arrangement and wrote to Hitler to protest about it.Шаблон:Sfn The sisters were keen photographers; in 1943 Gretl attended the Bavarian State School of Photography.Шаблон:Sfn
With Eva at the Berghof
Gretl spent much time with Eva at Hitler's Berghof retreat in the Obersalzberg of the Bavarian Alps, where she enlivened the formal atmosphere by having fun, smoking, and flirting with the orderlies.Шаблон:Sfn According to Hitler's secretary, Traudl Junge, Hitler explained to her at length why he detested smoking, but she would not give up the habit. Gretl fell for Hitler's SS adjutant Fritz Darges,Шаблон:Sfn but he was suddenly dismissed by Hitler and posted to command a unit on the Eastern Front following an insubordinate comment at a meeting in 1944.Шаблон:Sfn
Marriage
On 3 June 1944, she married SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein, who served as Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler's liaison officer on Hitler's staff. Their wedding took place at the Mirabell Palace in Salzburg with Hitler, Himmler, and Martin Bormann as witnesses.Шаблон:Sfn Her sister Eva made all the wedding arrangements. A wedding reception at the Berghof and party at the Eagle's Nest at Obersalzberg lasted three days.Шаблон:Sfn The marriage provided Hitler with a formal link to Eva and a reason to include her at public functions.Шаблон:Sfn Fegelein was a known playboy and had many extramarital affairs.Шаблон:Sfn
Downfall of the Third Reich
Three days after Gretl's wedding, the Normandy Landings took place. The social scene at the Berghof effectively ended on 14 July 1944 when Hitler left for his military headquarters, never to return.Шаблон:Sfn On 19 January 1945, Gretl and Eva arrived at the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, but they left for Berchtesgaden on 9 February.Шаблон:Sfn Eva later returned alone. On 23 April she wrote her last letter to Gretl and included a request for her to destroy all her business papers, but to retain the personal correspondence or bury it. None of these documents have been found.Шаблон:Sfn
Gretl was pregnant and still at the Berghof when her husband was arrested for desertion on 28 April 1945 in an apartment in Berlin, having gone missing from the Führerbunker.Шаблон:Sfn Initially, out of consideration for Eva, Hitler considered ordering Fegelein assigned to the defence of Berlin.Шаблон:Sfn However, after learning of Himmler's offer to surrender to the western Allies,Шаблон:Sfn Hitler ordered Himmler arrested and Fegelein shot.Шаблон:Sfn Hitler married Eva Braun in the early morning hours of 29 April.Шаблон:Sfn On the afternoon of 30 April 1945 the couple committed suicide.Шаблон:Sfn On 5 May 1945 at Obersalzberg, Gretl gave birth to a daughter, whom she named Eva Barbara in memory of her sister. Eva Barbara committed suicide in 1971, after her boyfriend was killed in a car accident.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
Later life
Braun married Kurt Berlinghoff on 6 February 1954 in Munich. She died on 10 October 1987 in Steingaden, Bavaria, aged 72.
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