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Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler had met when she was just 17 and she worked as an assistant to the photographer Heinrich Hoffmann, who went on to become Hitler's personal cameraman. Hitler and Braun became lovers in 1932. Now, thirteen years later, as the remaining German forces were overwhelmed, Eva wrote in a letter to her friend, Hertha Schneider, we are fighting here until the last, but I'm afraid the end is threatening closer and closer. On April 29, Hitler decided to marry his longtime mistress Eva Braun. The ceremony was concluded with Goebbels and Bormann as witnesses.
Hitler signed the wedding certificate but when it was Eva's turn, she began to write her surname as Braun before crossing out the letter B and instead writing Eva Hitler. Arm in arm, Hitler led his bride to the study for the wedding reception. Hitler now admitted for the first time that all was lost. Hitler said, everything is lost. Pack your things and go.
You to have leave and within an hour, the last plane would bring you out. After that moment of silence, Eva Braun stepped forward, went to him and took his hand and said, but you know I will stay with you. Less than two days after the wedding on April 30, Hitler and his bride ended their lives together. They had been married just a few hours. Eva took a cyanide capsule, popped it into her mouth, she died instantly.
Hitler picked up his gun, put it to his right temple and fired. Hitler's dog Blondie was also poisoned. Members of the staff carried the bodies in blankets and soaked them with what petrol they could find and set them alight. Hitler did not want to be handed over to the barbaric Bolsheviks because he knew what they had done to Mussolini. Thus, taking his life and setting his body on fire was his own wish.
One day before committing suicide, Hitler dictated his political testament, a suicide note, in which he denied any responsibility for starting the war. Right up until the very end, when Hitler had nothing to gain, he wanted the world to know that he had never wanted war.