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DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR and BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK CLUB title

´I want to be a beautiful corpse, I will take poison´ Eva Braun, 1945

Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler were together for fourteen years, a relationship that ended only with their marriage and double suicide in Berlin.

So who was Eva Braun? Heike Görtemaker´s highly praised book is the first to take Braun´s role in the Nazi hierarchy seriously. It uses her to throw fascinating light on a regime that prided itself on its harsh, coherent and unsentimental ideology, but which was in practice a chaos of competing individuals fighting for space around the overwhelmingly dominant figure of Hitler.

´Finally gives Braun her place in the dark history of the Third Reich´ Wall Street Journal

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The first scientifically researched biography to correct the image of the dumb blonde at the side of the mass murderer Der Spiegel

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Heike Görtemaker is a German historian and author. She was born in 1964, and studied Economics and German literature. She is currently working on a project on the legacy of Hitler´s inner circle in post-war Germany.

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