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New Biography Explores the Life and Myth of Eva Braun

A new biography comes closer than ever to capturing the story of Eva Braun, Hitler’s infamous lover and wife. Andrew Roberts on what she tells us about the dictator—and what their private life might have been like.

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Can one fall in love with the most evil man in history and yet not be evil oneself? What was it like effectively to be Adolf Hitler’s mistress for 13 years? Did Hitler and Eva Braun have sex, or might she have just been his “beard’? Did she have any...

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