Monday, March 14, 2011

FROM EVA BRAUN’S PRIVATE ALBUMS

 

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A photo titled 'Me As Al Jolson', from an album belonging to Hitler's companion Eva Braun, depicting her in Munich in 1937 in blackface as American actor Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer

Previously unseen images from the fascinating private albums of Eva Braun have come to light.

They give us incredible retrospective access to Hitler’s little known companion and her extraordinary life.

Hitler and Braun were married on April 29, 1945, but within some 40 hours they were both dead.

Against the backdrop of the final days of the war in Europe and the crumbling Reich it was an extraordinary marriage.

Eva Braun was the longtime companion, and for a brief time wife, of Adolf Hitler.

He met her in Munich when she was 17 years old and working as an assistant and model for his personal photographer Heinrich Hoffmann.

2j5zxbmBraun posing with an umbrella, Berchtesgaden, Germany, 1940. She was occasionally seen sunbathing and swimming nude. Adolf Hitler objected to such activities but was not around most of the time.

2ytz039Braun with two women and a person dressed as a polar bear in the Bavarian Alps, Germany, 1935

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