The Lost Life of Eva Braun

Eva was a naive woman who lived in a fantasy world. Hilter keep her in a bubble world. She has very little knowledge of what was going on around her and if she did, she ignored it.

The author has given Eva Braun life through this book. Many readers may wonder Who was Eva Braun? How did she meet A. Hitler? What took place during their years together? and mainly Why did she remain with and die with Hitler? The reader will discover the answers to these questions while the book develops Eva's story and changes her from just a character to the real person she was.

We don't really need William Blake to tell us "Cruelty has a human heart... Terror the human form divine" but since he says it best, I'm happy to let it stand as the crux of Lambert's conundrum: how it is that even a Hitler sought, and ultimately returned, love. This is a valuable book, well-researched and trying, as best as possible, to be both fair to history (what did Eva know, for instance, about Nazi atrocities and what could she have done) and to record Eva's rather simple life down-the-corridor and out-of-sight in Hitler's house. Of special interest is the documentation, alongside that of the Holocaust & the Blitz, of the Allied firebombing of Hamburg, Munich and Dresden. By raising the issue of Hitler's capacity for intimacy, and the suffering he brought to the German people as well as the rest of the world, Lambert has made a useful contribution to Hitler literature.

I thoroughly agree with the comment from Publishers Weekly: Magnificent. It is indeed! Angela Lambert has done her homework. Much research has gone into this fascinating portrait of Eva Braun. I've learned much from reading this work.

Angela Lambert is an English novelist and non-fiction writer who has written this new biography of Hitler's mistress and wife (for the last 36 hours of her short life of 33 years) Eva Braun (1912-April 20, 1945 dying in the Berlin Bunker after ingesting a poison capsule). Eva Braun was one of three sisters whose father taught school. The family was middle class practicing Roman Catholicism. The Brauns came from Bavaria one of the most conservative areas of Germany. Eva was the middle child. Eva was a lifelong hedonist who enjoying dressing up and having fun. Eva enjoyed skiing, hiking and gymnastics. It was when she was working as a photographer's assistant in the shop of Henreich Hoffmann in Munich that she first set eyes on Adolf Hitler. Hoffmann was a friend of Hitler whose photographs of the Nazi founder were widely published adding to Hitler's growing fortune. The printing of Mein Kampf also made a fortune for Hitler. Eva was a virgin who was instantly besotted by Hitler. This foolish fraulein had a "thing" for strong, reticent, cold and controlling men like her own distant father. Hitler and Eva first had sex following the death of Hitler's niece Geli Raubel his niece and the daughter of his half-sister Angela. Geli committed suicide after Hitler discovered her affair with his chaueffeur Emil Maurice. Hitler and Geli had in all probability been intimate. His loss of Geli made him suicidal but the devotion given him by the unthinking Eva brought him back from the brink. One wishes that this evil man had committed suicide! Eva was always kept in the background by Hitler who wanted people believe that his true love was the German people. Miss Braun was kept by Hitler in a small home he bought for her in Munich. Eva also spent a good deal of time at Hitler's Alpine retreat the fortress Berghof. She never had the children or family she longed for. Eva Braun was nonpolitical. She lived in a dreamworld in which looking pretty for her lover; dancing and having a good time were high priorities. She was not without virtues. Eva had a coterie of lifelong friends; was good to her parents (even though they despised Hitler and considered it shameful that their daughter had become his mistress); kind to others and loved animals. She probably did not know of the death camps. Her innocence and fatuous worship of Hitler is astounding to contemplate. Hitler choose Eva because he felt inferior to well born, more intellectual and politcally engaged women such as Magda Goebbels. He was pursued by kooky ladies like the Englishwoman Unity Mitford but their relationship was platonic. Eva was a nurturing woman who gave Hitler unquestiioned loyalty, love and did not challenge him mentally or morally. She comes across as shallow and less than bright. Her life was wasted on a mountain where she had leagued her soul to the unholy Satan who ruled Europe with cruel and vicious hatred. Lambert's own mother was born in Hamburg in 1912 which was also the natal