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Hitler had fancied himself in a dual role: as an artist destined to remake the world, and as an Attila or Genghis Khan destined to destroy it. Yet in his private life he always remained a drab petty bourgeois, who chose drab Eva Braun for his mistress, and somewhat embarrassedly concealed the fact for 15 years. Wrote Roper: "There is a somewhat macabre contrast between the revolutionary nihil ism of his doctrines . . . and the back ground of coziness and triviality from which they proceeded: teacups and cream buns, cuckoo clocks and Bavarian bric-a-brac...
...date on the document was April 29, 1945. Next day, as British Intelligence believes, the Führer and Eva Braun, his bride of one day, perished in the Berlin Chancellery's ruins. Two days later the Russians captured Berlin...
...respect, at least, Adolf Hitler got exactly what he deserved: his devoted Eva Braun was as mean-spirited a doxy as his worst enemy could have wished...
Adolf Hitler, looking for all the world like a proud papa, turned up in the photograph album of Eva Braun, his stock preferred blonde, whom he supposedly married the day before they died together in burning Berlin. Dozens of family-style snapshots, some of them cosily captioned "And here is Uschi again," showed Adolf and Eva with a baby girl whose latest picture indicated that she was about three. One picture (see cut) seemed to indicate that Adolf had two little bastards. But the Army said no; it had evidence that the Kinder belonged to Eva's sister. Fritz...
Because the British said so, nearly everybody suddenly believed that Adolf Hitler was really dead. A British Army Intelligence report, released last week, said that Hitler married his mistress, blond Eva Braun, on April 29, shot himself the next day after a macabre wedding feast in the ruins of falling Berlin...