Eva Braun

Eva Anna Paula Braun (February 6, 1912 – April 30, 1945) was the longtime companion (and ultimately, wife for a night and a day) of Adolf Hitler.

Marriage and suicide

By early April 1945 she had driven to Berlin from Munich to be with Hitler at the Führerbunker. She refused to leave as the Red Army closed in, insisting she was one of the only people loyal to him left in the world and Hitler married her on April 29, 1945 during a brief civil ceremony (the bride wore a blue silk dress) witnessed by Joseph Goebbels and Martin Bormann, after which staff were instructed to address her as Frau Hitler instead of Fräulein Braun. There was gossip among the fuhrerbunker staff that Eva was carrying Hitler's child (there is no evidence of this). They committed suicide together on the 30th, she by swallowing a cyanide capsule first. She was 33. Their corpses were burned with gasoline in the Reich Chancellery garden.

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1945 - Berlin - Munich - Führerbunker - Red Army - April 29 - Silk - Joseph Goebbels - Martin Bormann - Fräulein - Suicide - Cyanide - Corpse - Gasoline

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Their charred remains were soon discovered by the Russians and secretly buried at the SMERSH compound in Magdeburg, East Germany along with the bodies of Joseph and Magda Goebbels and their six children before being exhumed in 1970, completely cremated and dispersed in the Elbe river (see also Hitler's death).

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SMERSH - Magdeburg - East Germany - Joseph - Magda Goebbels - 1970 - Cremated - Elbe - Hitler's death

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"It was a suitable conclusion," Gertraud Weisker said later. "She had nothing. He ripped her out of her job and damned her to loneliness in the mountains. It was an unavoidable end and the logical result of everything that had gone before."

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The rest of Eva Braun's family survived the war including her father, who worked in a hospital and to whom Braun sent several trunks of her belongings in April, 1945. Her mother, Franziska died aged 96 in January 1976 having lived out her days in an old farmhouse in

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Ruhpolding, Bavaria.

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Ruhpolding - Bavaria

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