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Eva Braun

1912 - 1945

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Eva Anna Paula Hitler (née Braun; 6 February 1912 – 30 April 1945) was a German photographer who was the longtime companion and briefly the wife of Adolf Hitler. Braun met Hitler in Munich in 1929 (aged 17) when she was an assistant and model for his personal photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann. She began seeing Hitler often about two years later. She attempted suicide twice during their early relationship. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eva Braun is the 14th most popular companion (up from 15th in 2019), the 63rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 61st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular German Companion.

Eva Braun was Adolf Hitler's mistress and later wife. She is most famous for being the only woman in Hitler's life that he never divorced.

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Among companions, Eva Braun ranks 14 out of 784. Before her are Helena, Joséphine de Beauharnais, Catherine de' Medici, Mary of Teck, Theodora, and Imelda Marcos. After her are Aspasia, Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, Mihrimah Sultan, Madame de Pompadour, Nurbanu Sultan, and Klara Hitler.

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Among people born in 1912, Eva Braun ranks 4. Before her are Pope John Paul I, Kim Il-sung, and Alan Turing. After her are Erich Honecker, Otto von Habsburg, Jackson Pollock, Wernher von Braun, Milton Friedman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, and John Cage. Among people deceased in 1945, Eva Braun ranks 7. Before her are Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Benito Mussolini, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Anne Frank, and Heinrich Himmler. After her are Béla Bartók, Martin Bormann, Anton Webern, Fedor von Bock, Walter Model, and Thomas Hunt Morgan.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Eva Braun ranks 63 out of 7,253. Before her are Georg Ohm (1789), Hildegard of Bingen (1098), Erwin Rommel (1891), Jacques Offenbach (1819), Heinrich Hertz (1857), and Hannah Arendt (1906). After her are Æthelwulf, King of Wessex (795), Heinrich Heine (1797), Erich Maria Remarque (1898), Konrad Adenauer (1876), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886), and Reinhard Heydrich (1904).

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Among COMPANIONS In Germany

Among companions born in Germany, Eva Braun ranks 2. Before her are Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837). After her are Queen Silvia of Sweden (1943), Caroline of Ansbach (1683), Magda Goebbels (1901), Anne of Cleves (1515), Sepp Dietrich (1892), Isabeau of Bavaria (1370), Frederica of Hanover (1917), Katharina von Bora (1498), Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1691), and Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg (1868).

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