Eva Braun
- Date of birth:
- 1912
- Date of death:
- 1945
- Mini Bio:
- Eva Anna Paula Braun, died Eva Anna Paula Hitler was the longtime companion of Adolf Hitler and briefly his wife. Braun met Hitler in Munich when she was 17 years old while working as an assistant and model for his personal photographer and began seeing him often about two years later. Braun enjoyed photography and many of the surviving colour photographs of Hitler were taken by her. She was a key figure within Hitler's inner social circle but did not attend public events with him until the summer of 1944 when her sister married an officer on his personal staff. As Red Army troops fought their way into the neighbourhood on 29 April 1945 she married Hitler during a brief civil ceremony. 36 hours later they committed suicide together in a sitting room of the bunker, she by biting into a capsule of cyanide at the age of 33. The German public was wholly unaware of Braun until after her death.