Braun, Eva, << brown, EE vuh or AY vah >> (1912-1945), was the mistress of Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945. Braun met Hitler in Munich in 1929 while working as an assistant to Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler’s personal photographer. Hitler gave her a suite of rooms in his personal residence. Braun had no influential or political role in government, and she never sought to interfere in Hitler’s work or official activities. She made few demands on Hitler and was totally devoted to him. Hitler made her wealthy and kept her out of public view.
Eva Braun was born on Feb. 6, 1912, in Munich, Germany, to a middle-class Bavarian couple. She married Hitler near the end of World War II, on April 29, 1945, in a bomb shelter in Berlin. The next day, as Soviet troops closed in on the place where they were hiding, both Braun and Hitler took their own lives.
