Gretl Braun
[Eva Braun] lived life with [Adolf] Hitler, when he was away, she just filled up her time without Hitler. That was the sum total of it, really.Collection: Filled Up
If [Eva Braun] was crying upstairs, it wouldn't be long before [Adolf] Hitler would quietly excuse himself and then make things right. What he said to her, I don't know. Whether he said the words "I'm sorry," I don't know. But he was a charmer, he knew how to stop a woman from crying.Collection: Sorry
In the years before the war, whenever [Adolf] Hitler would be holed up in Bayreuth, Eva [Braun], myself and our mother often went to Italy for a week.Collection: Mother
[Eva Braun] went to the Nurnberg party rallies starting in 1935. She was there twice and stayed at the Hotel Deutscher Hof, the hotel [Adolf] Hitler had always stayed at while there. It was endless subterfuge in order to see him and then only for a few hours, then she had to sneak back to the banishment of her own room.Collection: Party
[Eva Braun] was the one who was involved with [Adolf Hitler], who was close to him.Collection: Involved
I never had disagreements with [Adolf Hitler], I never saw him in an unpleasant frame of mind.Collection: Mind
Late in his life, that's another matter, [Adolf Hitler] was not the same man in 1944 and he was, say, in 1934.Collection: Men
Was [Adolf Hitler] rude to me? Never. He was always polite and well-mannered.Collection: Rude
[Eva Braun] always called him der Führer to us. It was ridiculous, but she never changed that.Collection: Ridiculous
Mostly [Eva Braun criticize Adolf Hitler] about his clothes, the cut and the fit of his clothes. This was an ongoing issue between them.Collection: Cutting
When [Adolf] Hitler was in Munich, their place [with Eva Braun] to meet was always his apartment. Before that, it was at Hoffmann's place. They had their routine there, Hitler had his security there, it was a place he was used to. He never got used to the apartment he got us on the Widenmayerstraße .Collection: Munich
My father would never have come to visit, he detested Eva's [Braun] choice in a man and the fact [Adolf] Hitler had set her up in an apartment. To him it was deeply humiliating that she was living with a man at his own whim at an apartment he was paying for.Collection: Father
I knew [Eva Braun] wrote to [Adolf Hitler], I would see her writing to him and I would see her reading his notes or letters. She kept all that in a safe at the Berghof and nobody got near that safe except Hitler or Eva.Collection: Reading
Love letters are supposed to be private. [Eva Braun] was very secretive about all that.Collection: Letters
They [Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun] had their disagreements, it wasn't all sunshine and roses, but it isn't that way for any married couple.Collection: Couple
Eva [Braun] liked to write cards and letters, she spent a great deal of time on this. She had lovely writing, lovely sets of stationary and she spent hours a day on her correspondence, at least later on.Collection: Writing
I knew when they [with Adolf Hitler] had been fighting because Eva [Braun] always reacted the same way. She would lock herself in her bedroom and cry and cry, sometimes for a long time.Collection: Fighting
[Eva Braun] did not want me to interrupt her or try to lift her spirits. She told me she had to go through these periods by herself.Collection: Trying
Shortly after Eva's [Braun] second attempt at suicide, [Adolf] Hitler moved quickly, as we discussed already. I can't tell you how difficult it was for her living at the apartment of our parents. I wasn't happy there, but Eva was miserable, I can tell you that.Collection: Suicide
[Eva Braun] was careful, she was always careful about what she divulged to me or to anyone about [Adolf] Hitler.Collection: Careful
[Eva Braun] also stayed with [Adolf Hitler] at the Hotel Imperial in Vienna, the Hotel Dreesen in Bad Godesberg and a few other places. I was never with her in these places, though my mother was there in Vienna.Collection: Mother