Eva Braun
February 6, 1912 – April 30, 1945
Eva Braun (1912-1945) was a German photographer who was the longtime companion and briefly the wife of Adolf Hitler. She met Hitler in Munich in 1929, when she was working as an assistant and model for his personal photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann.
Biography
Eva Anna Paula Braun was born in Munich in 1912, the second daughter of a schoolteacher. After a convent business school she went to work at seventeen for Heinrich Hoffmann, the Nazi Party's official photographer, first as a shop assistant and later as a photographer. Hoffmann introduced her to Adolf Hitler at his Munich studio in 1929.
She became Hitler's companion in the early 1930s and twice attempted suicide during the relationship. From about 1936 she was part of his household at the Berghof, living a secluded life largely hidden from the German public, and she took many of the surviving colour photographs and films of Hitler.
In April 1945 she joined Hitler in the Führerbunker in Berlin. They married on 29 April, and the next day they killed themselves there, she by taking cyanide.
Family
Eva Braun
Adolf Hitler