Response to Comments About Eva Braun: Life With Hitler:

I’ve never understood what everybody considers so mysterious about the relationship of Hitler and Eva Braun. Hitler married her in the Fuhrer Bunker at the end of their lives to keep his long-standing promise to her in the only way he could. He’d consoled her for years with the thought that they would be married when he retired from power and they moved to Linz, Austria with their dogs, most of his secretaries, and the favorites in his entourage. Why did he care what she thought? He loved her. He’d often talked to his secretary, Christa Schroeder, about it in years past. He admired the young woman’s courage, the way she went to Munich when there were bombing raids, the way she stood on the burning roof of a friend’s house, and didn’t worry about her own safety. In years gone by when he was at the Wolf’s Lair he often phoned her[[ASIN:B007UKXEV0 The Nazi Sphinx]]. When Christa Schroeder once suggested that he could do better than Eva, Hitler said, “She’s good enough for me.”