Did Eva Braun really love Adolf Hitler?
Not much is known about Eva Braun. This is due primarily to the fact that her life was fairly uneventful even though she was so close to Hitler and in association with many top Nazi officials. Each time important political guests came to visit, Hitler banished Eva to her room. He was heard to say “that a highly intelligent man should always choose a primitive and stupid woman,” and this said in front of Eva. Still, Eva was very much in love with Hitler, whom she playfully referred to as “Wulf,” and after he had survived a near death experience in 1944, she wrote him a love letter stating that “‘from our first meeting I swore to follow you anywhere – even unto death – I live only for your love'” . This was not the first time, nor the last, that Eva would be driven to speak of suicide when concerned about Hitler. In 1932 she tried to shoot herself and then three years later she took an overdose of sleeping pills. Hitler’s affection for Eva may not have been as dramatic and public as hers
It would be impossible for us to determine how Eva Braun really felt about Hitler. The best we can do is look at the evidence, such as the last letter she wrote to her sister and have an educated guess: “I must write you these words so that you will not feel sad over our end here in the shelter. It is rather we who are filled with sorrow because it is your fate to live on into the chaos that will follow. For myself, I am glad to die here; glad to be at the side of the Fuehrer; foremost of all, glad that the horror now to come is spared me. What could life still give me? It has already been perfect. It has already given me its best and its fullest. Why should I go on living? This is the time to die; the right time. With the Fuehrer I have had everything. To die now, beside him, completes my happiness. Live on well and as happily as you can. Shed no tears nor be regretful over our deaths. It is the perfect and proper ending. None of us would change it now. It is the right end for a Germa
