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Hitler and the End of the Third Reich
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Short Biography:Eva Braun |
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In Berchtesgaden, about 1943
Hitler, Braun, about 1944
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1912
February 6: Eva Braun - daughter of a teacher - is born in Munich.
1928
After having visited a Lyceum she attends - for one year - the business school in a convent near Simbach at the Inn.
For several months she works as receptionist in a medical practice in Munich and then changes employment and works in the office of the photographer Heinrich Hoffmann, where she met Adolf Hitler for the first time.
1931
Hitler intensifies his contact to Braun after his niece Geli (actually Angela) Raubal committed suicide.
1932
November: Braun tries to kill herself by a shot her throat.
1935
Her second suicide attempt by absorption of an overdose of barbiturates. Hitler wanted to avoid a scandal in connexion with the death of Raubal and intensified his relationship to Braun. He instructed Hoffmann to buy a villa in Munich that he placed at her disposal - also a Mercedes and a chauffeur.
Since 1936
After Hitler´s half-sister, mother of Raubal, had moved out of the Berghof, Braun stayed there - on the Obersalzberg. She did not receive Hitler´s visitors. Hitler did not stand by her in public.
1938
In Hitler´s last will she was considered in the first place: In case of his death she should obtain a monthly amount of RM 1.000,-- until the end of her life.
1944
Because of the marriage of her sister with a liaison-officer of Heinrich Himmler, Eva Braun became ´presentable´ in Hitler´s entourage.
1945
March 7: Despite Hitler´s interdiction, Braun drives to Berlin to be with Hitler - before the Red Army closes in on the city.
April 15: She moves into a room in the bunker underneath the Reich Chancellery.
April 28/29: In the bunker, shortly before midnight, Braun and Hitler were married by a chief officer of the district who acts as registrar. Joseph Goebbels and Martin Bormann are witnesses to the marriage. In the protocol the ´state of emergency´ and the ´marriage in war´ is recorded, as well as ´Aryan descent´ and ´no hereditary desease´.
April 30: Eva Braun kills herself together with Adolf Hitler in the bunker. She dies by taking poison. In the garden of the Reich Chancellery their dead bodies are doused with gasoline and burnt - according Hitler´s instruction.
Source: German Historical Museum, Berlin
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