Life.com has obtained a set of newly released photos from the personal albums of Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler's longtime girlfriend and, in their final hours, wife.
The photos "reveal new dimensions" of the woman who married Hitler as the Russian army closed in on his Berlin bunker and then committed suicide with him a day later. He was 56. She was 33.
The 30 photos cover almost all of Braun's life, from images of her as a toddler and schoolgirl to her spending time with Hitler at his mountaintop retreat in the Alps.
Among the most interesting images are those of Braun posing seemingly naked behind an umbrella and her made up as American actor Al Jolson in his role in "The Jazz Singer."
The photos come from "a cache of images confiscated by the U.S. Army in 1945 and brought to light by collector and curator Reinhard Schulz," Life.com reports.
uhhhh model????? she's mad busted.
LOL!!!
Give her some bangs and a ukulele and she could pass for a decent hipster chic.
What the hell? Is this the history channel now?
Good morning.. Would you like some Nazis for breakfast? Mmmmmmm..
Bringing History that much closer to the present than it actual is. This is CNN.
I like focusing on wars we won instead of the wars we are fighting today.
@ Lame & Tom – Have you ever heard the concept of those that forget about the past are doomed to repeat it?
Plus – There are some of us that enjoy reading historical articles. It's real history instead of the history people are currently trying to re-create in their favor.
Gold Crash.
eva braun wasn't bad for the 40's but musollini's mistress (petacci)was hotter, too bad they had to shoot her and hang her upside down next to him.
It's not lower standards, just different standards. The top models of today will probably be considered as unattractive when someone looks back at their photos 50 years from now.
Actually she was not the love of Hitler's life but someone who 'threw' herself at him and he responded.
Ugly.
And in other news today we have discovered Hitlers underpants. News at 11!
This article smells like a troll to me.
Lowering your standards to beauty in the 1940's? Those considered attractive at the time were Marilyn Monroe, Rita Hayworth, Veronica Lake, etc. People still consider them attractive today. Beauty is Beauty.
She looks like my Wisconsin school teacher.
""Braun was a model as a teenager.""
Depends on how you define the term "Model". Model could be anything from a stick in the ground casting a shadow, to a person unattractive, an animal or a Goddess.
Obviously she wasn't a fashion model at her age when the photo was taken.
@Tom, No, if this were the History Channel, it would be a Nazi Story, then a UFO Story.
I thought she'd be a HE!
As are six million jews.
Some of us love to spend all our free time worried about the Nazi.
And the rest of us would prefer to spend time on more important human interest stories like what Charlie Sheen will be doing now that he's been fired from the sitcom that nobody watched.
Give her some black hair dye and stache, and she could be Hitler.
Charlie is more important than hitler's underpants. I'm sorry, but it's true.
Glenn beck will think she's hot
your screen name, your posts are almost always the same, you're obviously obsessed to the point of being unhealthy. seek help.
Model...? Boy, they'd let just about anyone do that in those days, I suppose. Looks about ugly enough for Hitler. Shame on her.
ugh. She's almost as ugly as Adolf. A pair of losers.
Actually there are other pictures of her where she appears more attractive than this. She was not a classic beauty, but she was actually pretty. This picture does not do her (physical appearance) justice. Of course, one has to wonder how "beautiful" she was inside to marry a monster like Hitler.
ps.... are her teeth wooden? If so, hand me a nail and a hammer.
The devils bride, how lovely!
BYTCH
I'm so happy that WWII never ended for some people. Sickos
ur last name wouldnt happen to be bobb would it...u sound alot like a tom i know...
At least this story isn't about his 14 year old cousin, that he had an affair with, then shot. Now that was creepy.
It wasn't his cousin it was his neice.
That was a horrible story, the poor neice did not return his affections, but he was extremely controlling and never let her out of his sight alive. Literally.
Hilter was 23 years older than her.
Old guys think just about every women 20+ years younger than themselves is "hot"..................
Old guys think any much-younger women who will sleep with them are hot. They see what they want to see, desperate b*ggers.
That's pretty freking cool.
well, they did not elaborate on what TYPE of model. She looks a little like the old Campbell Kids cartoon figures.
I think Valerie is hot.
i think she's beautifull! angel-like
...pray for glasses.