Hitler's+Wife+(Eva+Baun)


 * Hitler's Wife (Eva Braun)

Kelsey P.**
 * (Before you learn about Eva, you should first get more familiar with the [|Holocaust])

Eva Braun's childhood was rather pleasant for her. She was the second born in a family of three daughters, and both parents. Her two sisters were Ilse and Gretl, and her parents were Fredrich and Franciska. Her father was a teacher at the Catholic school she and her sisters attended. She graduated with above average grades, and continued on to a convent school. While attending there she lived at the Simbach-am-Inn. A year after going there, and studying bookkeeping, and economics, she moved back home. At seventeen she took a bookkeeping job, but her skills advanced her to a studio assistant job with Heinrich Hoffman- a well known artist and photographer; a friend of Adolf Hitler. It was there, while staying after to straighten up around the studio, that she met the hell that her life would turn into.**


 * Hitler was very down trot after his niece had died, so as a good friend Heinrich help parties to help lighten his mood- Eva Braun was always invited. He gained an attraction to Eva, and she loved him at first sight. After a while, he would stop in the studio and ask for Eva by name. He would give her sweets, and flowers. She once said "It is a pity it is spring." (quoted from her [|diary]), and there's no wonder there. Hitler had given her so many flowers, she at one point said that it seemed her office was like a "cemetary filled with the scent of flowers."**


 * When rumors of Hitler seeing other women first set in, Eva had tried to commit suicide by shooting herself in the neck. After she healed, quite fast actually, she moved in with Hitler against her father's wishes. She was hidden by using a cover so that noone else, besides Hitler's closest friends, knew who she was.**
 * Eva always dreamed about being married to Hitler, and that one day he would share her with the world, and in public view, share his love for her. She also yearned for a family of her own, but with this Hitler held a very stern objection. He was quoted saying " Imagine if on top of everything else I had a woman who interfered with my work! In my leisure time I want to have peace. I would never marry. Think of the problems if I had children! In the end they would try to make my son my successor!" Along with this very obviously one-sided statement, he felt that having a child would be a great disappointment, for they could never match his own genius. With these words being thrown at Eva, she again tried to commit an early death; this time using 35 sleeping pills.**
 * After this attempt, she gained more affection from her long time lover. He had bought her a house of her own in her home town of Munich, in which she gained many luxuries. She enjoyed taking photos, and so became the head photographer of the war-- the only involvement she ever had in it. Hitler built her her own dark room, showing support for what she loved. Later on, she eventually gained all legal rights to every photo of the war.**
 * Hitler's love life became the spotlight for rumors at the time, and Eva was forced to move in with Hitler and act as his hostess. Her life was immediatly changed for the worse, and she became the "unhappiest woman in Germany."**
 * In late April of 1945, when Hitler knew his reign was about to end, he sent Eva a letter, commanding her to stay in Munich for safety. About a week later, Eva wrote a letter saying she can't stand to not be at his side, and he let her reunite with him. On April 29 of that year, Hitler had decided to break his morals, and make his long time lover's dreams come true, and they wed; Eva in silk, Hitler in his suit. The morning after the wedding, however, Hitler and Eva spoke of suicide. Three hours later, one of Hitler's men- Rochus- heard yelling and noises, and when he went to check on them, he fould Hitler dead and hunched over his desk as Eva lie on the ground dead. Eva had finally finished off her life with a vial of cyanide.**