Eva Braun was Hitler's girlfriend, not mistress
Watching a particularly good episode of The Thirties in Colour, where they have some fantastic Technicolor film of the world, and also of 1930s Germany and Poland, they showed Eva Braun's colour films.And referred to her as his mistress. I can't remember if I blogged this before, as I know I meant to. Why do they always describe her thus? She was his girlfriend, partner, lover, etc, but not his mistress. Neither of them was married. I guess it's because he was meant to be 'married to the Reich'.
ps Comments from Tim and Peter have got me searching the Times archive. Eva was first mentioned on June 21st 1945. It 'throws some light on her position' and apparently she was known as 'EB'. She's then mentioned quite a few times - is she in Argentina, etc - -but the problem is by then she is referred to as 'his wife'. By 1953 one of her films is said to show Hitler as a 'man and a lover'. Off topic, in 1959 a Lubeck teacher declared that Anna [sic] Frank's diaries were a forgery. Finally in 1968 we get a mention of 'Eva Braun' as his mistress.
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posted by Matthew @ 8/06/2008 10:08:00 PM
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