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EVA BRAUN: THE WOMAN WHO STOOD BY HITLER

“If anyone ever asked,
Braun was Hitler’s secretary. He needed to maintain his image as the chaste leader”

They were found together in the so-called Führerbunker underneath central Berlin, with Soviet forces scouring the streets above. Adolf Hitler was slumped on the sofa in his private study, blood dripping from a self-administered gunshot wound to his temple. Next to him was his long-time lover, and wife of fewer than two days, Eva Braun. She too had taken her own life, having bitten into a cyanide capsule. He was

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