She was the eternal shadow of Hitler. According to historians, Eva Brown did not play any political role at all. Submissive, loyal and inconspicuous, this girl only for 1 day fulfilled her dream - to become the Fuhrer’s legal wife.
On February 6, 1912, Eva Braun was born into an ordinary Munich family - an unremarkable girl who was to become the main woman in the life of Adolf Hitler.
early years
In 1929, Eva was recruited to a photography shop of Heinrich Hoffmann, an ideological national socialist. For a 17-year-old girl, it was a very prestigious job for that time: she posed for photographers, helped with sales, carried out small assignments, and mastered photography. Eva enthusiastically gave all her time and energy to a new job, often lingering late. On one of these evenings, Adolf Hitler came to his friend Hoffmann in a photo studio. Eve did not recognize him, since the Führer introduced himself by a different name, but sympathy between them arose instantly.
The next day, Heinrich Hoffmann told his young colleague who it was she who had started dating on the eve of, which Eva was completely delighted with.
Hitler began to go to the shop more and more often. He was gallant and courteous, showered the girl with compliments and openly showed his sympathy. Eve and Adolf could go to the opera or to a restaurant, but that was all. Hitler repeatedly repeated that he was too busy to allow himself a full-fledged romantic relationship. He was fanatically devoted to his ideas and ambitions, so any woman would be in last place with him. That is exactly what happened with Eva Brown.
The girl was waiting for each meeting with her lover, in detail discussed their relationship with her friends and passionately wanted to get closer to him. In the early years, relations between Brown and Hitler were platonic, and only in 1931-32, presumably, moved to a more intimate stage.
Suicide or staging?
For several years, Eva remained the only girl so close to the Fuhrer. In narrow circles, everyone knew about their connection, although it was impossible to speak out loud about the novel. In the early years, a certain dynamic was observed in relations, but at a certain moment everything came to a standstill. Hitler made no further attempts to get close to the Fraulein Brown, preferring rare but regular dates. One way or another, on the night of October 10-11, 1932, Eve tried to shoot herself in the house of her parents. They found her bloodied and still alive, the bullet stuck in her neck, miraculously without damaging the carotid artery.
It is difficult to say what feelings guided Eve in that period, because even the testimonies of the girl's loved ones radically diverge. Some claimed that such a decision was dictated by despair: Eve realized that relations with Adolf did not develop and did not see the future, so she could no longer put up with this state of things. Others are convinced that the suicide was planned to the smallest detail - from the trajectory of the bullet to the choice of the doctor whom Brown addressed. The second version is difficult to believe, because it is almost impossible to adjust such an injury.
Somehow the plan worked. Hitler perceived the attempted suicide of his mistress not as cheap manipulation on her part, but as a manifestation of true devotion and fidelity. He immediately declared that from now on he would be responsible for the “child”.
