Eva Braun: Hitler’s Secret Companion Who Stayed Until the Fall of the Third Reich

World History: True Stories of the 20th Century · Mar 12, 2026 · 16m

Eva Braun, the longtime secret companion and eventual wife of Adolf Hitler, chose to remain at his side in the Führerbunker as the Third Reich collapsed in April 1945.

In the final days of April 1945, as Soviet forces closed in on Berlin and the Third Reich collapsed, one person made the fateful choice to remain at Adolf Hitler’s side until the very end: Eva Braun. For fifteen years she lived in the shadows—Germany never knew she existed—yet she would become the last and most loyal companion of the dictator responsible for the deadliest war in human history. Born in Munich in 1912, Eva Braun…