caption known death_date death_place birth_name birth_place other_names birth_date spouse image article_title name occupation death_cause
braun in 1942 partner and wife of adolf hitler 30 april 1945 berlin , germany eva anna paula braun munich , bavaria , germany eva hitler 6 february 1912 adolf -- 30 april 1945 -rrb- hitler -lrb- 29 april 1945 & nbsp ; eva braun walking dog.jpg eva braun
 eva braun photographer of heinrich hoffmann ; office and lab assistant at photography studio suicide -lrb- cyanide poisoning -rrb-
eva braun

eva anna paula hitler -lrb- `` née '' braun ; 6 february 1912 -- 30 april 1945 -rrb- was the longtime companion of adolf hitler and , for less than 40 hours , his wife .
braun met hitler in munich when she was 17 years old , while she was working as an assistant and model for his personal photographer , and began seeing him often about two years later .
she attempted suicide twice during their early relationship .
by 1936 , she was a part of his household at the berghof near berchtesgaden and lived a sheltered life throughout world war ii .
braun was a photographer , and many of the surviving colour photographs and films of hitler were taken by her .
she was a key figure within hitler 's inner social circle , but did not attend public events with him until mid-1944 , when her sister gretl married hermann fegelein , the ss liaison officer on his staff .
as the third reich collapsed towards the end of the war , braun swore loyalty to hitler and went to berlin to be by his side in the heavily reinforced `` führerbunker '' beneath the reich chancellery .
as red army troops fought their way into the neighbourhood on 29 april 1945 , she married hitler during a brief civil ceremony ; she was 33 and he was 56 .
less than 40 hours later , they committed suicide together in a sitting room of the bunker , she by biting into a capsule of cyanide .
the german public was unaware of braun 's relationship with hitler until after their deaths .
