1. Gretl Braun was a member of the inner social circle of Adolf Hitler at the Berghof.
13 Facts About Gretl Braun
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Gretl Braun became the sister-in-law of Hitler following his marriage to Eva, less than 40 hours before the couple killed themselves.
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Gretl Braun married SS-Gruppenfuhrer Hermann Fegelein, a liaison officer on Hitler's staff, on 3 June 1944.
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Gretl Braun changed her name, remarried, and lived a quiet life until her death in 1987.
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Gretl Braun was the youngest of three daughters of school teacher Friedrich "Fritz" Gretl Braun and seamstress Franziska "Fanny" Kronberger.
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The sisters were keen photographers; in 1943 Gretl Braun attended the Bavarian State School of Photography.
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Gretl Braun spent much time with Eva at Hitler's Berghof retreat in the Obersalzberg of the Bavarian Alps, where she enlivened the formal atmosphere by having fun, smoking, and flirting with the orderlies.
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Gretl Braun fell for Hitler's SS adjutant Fritz Darges, but he was suddenly dismissed by Hitler and posted to command a unit on the Eastern Front following an insubordinate comment at a meeting in 1944.
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Gretl Braun was pregnant and still at the Berghof when her husband was arrested for desertion on 28 April 1945 in an apartment in Berlin, having gone missing from the Fuhrerbunker.
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On 5 May 1945 at Obersalzberg, Gretl Braun gave birth to a daughter, whom she named Eva Barbara in memory of her sister.
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Gretl Braun married Kurt Berlinghoff on 6 February 1954 in Munich.
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Gretl Braun died on 10 October 1987 in Steingaden, Bavaria, aged 72.
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Gretl, her daughter Eva, Kurt Berlinghoff, and Ilse Braun are all buried next to each other.