Eva Braun

Photographer, longtime companion and later wife of Adolf Hitler (1912–1945)

  • Fame65.1
  • Momentum0.1
  • Artists rank#94
Source-basedStable
  • Fame65.1
  • Momentum0.1
  • Artists rank#94
  • Wikipedia177.2K
Lived 1912–1945, aged 33Germany
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    83 languages
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  • Era
    1912–1945
    Aged 33
  • Known for
    Hitler: A Career
    1977
Summary
Updated 2026-06-21

The photographer who documented Hitler's private world while living as his hidden companion for over a decade — unknown to most Germans until the day she died beside him in the Berlin bunker.

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Braun met Hitler in Munich in 1929 at seventeen, working as an assistant and model for his personal photographer Heinrich Hoffmann. She began seeing him regularly two years later and attempted suicide twice during their early relationship. By 1936 she was installed at the Berghof near Berchtesgaden, living a sheltered existence throughout the war as a fixture of Hitler's inner circle but absent from public view until 1944, when her sister married an SS officer on his staff. She created many of the surviving colour photographs and films of Hitler. As Germany collapsed in April 1945, she travele…

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65.1
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Historical30.4
Now attention12.7
Source confidence65.0
Completeness75.0
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