ROOM CHANGE: THIS EVENT WILL NOW TAKE PLACE IN THE 5TH FLOOR CONFERENCE ROOM
 

The Woodrow Wilson Center’s History and Public Policy Program, in cooperation with The Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies of the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, present

Eva Braun: Life with Hitler

Thursday, 20 November, 2014, 3:30pm-5:00pm
Woodrow Wilson Center, 4^th Floor Conference Room

Event description: German historian Heike Görtemaker's book, Eva Braun: Life with Hitler, was a best-seller in Germany and has been translated into 15 languages. The book sparked intense interest in the woman who had long been Hitler's companion and became his wife two days before the two of them committed suicide in their bunker in Berlin at the end of World War II. In her book, Görtemaker describes the important role Braun played in Hitler's inner circle, poking holes in the Nazi propaganda that Hitler had been the lonely 'Führer' married to Germany. Görtemaker has traced all the existing pieces of the puzzle of Braun’s story, compiling them into the first academic biography and a very different view of Hitler.