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Real Wives of Dictators | Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler's Wife

2025/3/14
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Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

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This chapter outlines Eva Braun's early life, her family background, and her initial interactions with Adolf Hitler, setting the stage for their complex relationship.
  • Eva Braun was a middle-class Munich girl with a teacher father and seamstress mother.
  • She worked at Heinrich Hoffmann's photography studio where she met Hitler.
  • Eva was 17 and Hitler was 40 when they first met, with over 20 years between them.
  • Their initial meeting occurred over a plate of sausages at the photography studio.
  • Eva was drawn to Hitler's impressive figure and was young and malleable, while she admired and boosted his ego.

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What was life like as Adolf Hitler's other half?

Although their marriage came (very) late in their lives, Eva Braun was with Hitler from the earlier days in his political career, and was a confidant to him through the rise (and fall) of the Nazi Party.

How complicit was she in the evil ideologies Hitler set out? Was she in any way a victim? And what was it like to be part of the inner circle?

Joining Kate in the second episode of our limited series, Real Wives of Dictators, is Clare Mulley, historian and author of books including *The Women Who Flew For Hitler, *and recently, Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka.

This episode was edited and produced by Stuart Beckwith. The senior producer was Charlotte Long.

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