Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun: Twelve Years a Mistress, Two Days a Wife

Of the many aspects of Adolf Hitler's life, one that has never been really fully documented is his romantic connection with Eva Braun as well as women who came before her in Der F?hrer's shadowy love life. Despite the thousands of books written about the mad genius, none has thoroughly explored and reliably documented his connection to Eva Braun, including their notorious suicides in the F?hrerbunker during the last days of the war in Germany. This book explores this and his other relationships in detail, including the shocking suicide of his half-niece Geli Raubal, whom Hitler doted upon, and his subsequent devastation--all thoroughly verified by thousands of pages of research from earlier sources and interviews. Only two women have emerged from most historical accounts: Hitler's niece "Geli" Raubal, his half-sister's daughter, and of course Eva Braun. (There were considerably more). It is Geli's and Eva's violent deaths, though, that captured the world's imagination in a gruesome way.Many readers and moviegoers / TV viewers are somewhat familiar with the last days in the bunker, with Hitler and his intimate circle far below ground while Soviet artillery shells were reducing Berlin to rubble, but that said, many particulars have gone unreported. Adolf and Eva mean to fill the gaps in this macabre yet exciting tale of the last hours of The Third Reich. It covers in detail the suicides of Goebbels and his wife after they had horrifically poisoned their children, the emotions and panicky infighting of those trapped underground, the attempted breakout of a handful of Nazi leaders, the last-minute marriage between Hitler and Eva, as well as the carefully-documented details of their suicides and disposal of the bodies.One key validating element, for example, is a narrative of the events in the bunker provided to his Soviet captors by Otto G?nsche, a high-ranking Nazi that Hitler gave permission in writing to attempt a breakout. Three others that included Martin Bormann, who went with him were killed by the Soviets while G?nsche somehow miraculously survived capture and the war and lived until 2003. Everything he told the Russians was later fully acknowledged, and the story is fascinating, including G?nsche's up-close-and-personal account of Adolf's and Eva's last hours.Like a cheap parody of a Wagnerian opera finale, the two newlyweds were dispatched to "Valhalla," and that was the end of The Third Reich. What happened up to that point and afterwards makes for spellbinding reading.