Title: Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun Description: Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889-April 30, 1945) dining with his mistress and future if brief wife Eva Braun (Eva Anna Paula Braun, February 6, 1912-April 30, 1945); they first met in 1929 when she was seventeen and an assistant in a photographer's studio in Munich; Hitler was reportedly "fond" of her, but she had little or no influence on him politically; they were married just forty hours before they both committed suicide in his hideaway bunker under the Reichstag in Berlin as Soviet forces were closing in on the neighborhood, she by biting into a capsule of cyanide, and he by doing the same and then shooting himself in the temple; Hitler was portrayed in many documentary films, and most notably in feature (drama or docudrama) films by Charles Chaplin (in caricature in a lampooning portrait) in the 1940 film The Great Dictator; by Billy Russell (not credited) in the 1940 film Night Train to Munich; by Bobby Watson in the 1942 film The Devil With Hitler; by Tom Dugan (impersonating Hitler) in the 1942 film To Be or Not to Be; by Hitler himself (in archive footage) in the 1943 film Mission to Moscow; by Bobby Watson again in the 1943 film Hitler: Dead or Alive; by Bobby Watson again in the 1943 film That Nazty Nuisance; by Ludwig Donath in the 1943 film The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler; by Bobby Watson again in the 1944 film The Hitler Gang; by V. Savelyov in the 1949 film The Fall of Berlin; by M. Astangov in the 1959 film The Battle of Stalingrad; by Luther Adler in the 1951 film The Desert Fox; by Luther Adler again in the 1951 film The Magic Face; by Albin Skoda in the 1955 film Ten Days to Die; by Bobby Watson again in the 1957 film The Story of Mankind; by Kenneth Griffith in the 1958 film The Two-Headed Spy; by Hitler himself (in archive footage at the launch of the German pocket battleship Bismarck) in the 1960 film Sink the Bismarck!; by Bobby Watson again in the 1961 film On the Double; by Richard Basehart in the 1962 film Hitler; by Billy Frick in the 1966 film Is Paris Burning?; by Rolf Stiefel in the 1969 film The Battle of Britain; by Fritz Dits in the 1969 film The Great Battle; by Sidney Miller in the 1970 film Which Way to the Front?; by Alex Guinness in the 1973 film Hitler: The Last Ten Days; by Gunnar Moller in the 1974 film Days of Betrayal; by Peter Sellers in the 1974 film Soft Beds, Hard Battles; by Helmut Qualtinger in the 1975 film Ice Age; by Kurt Raab in the 1977 film Adolf and Marlene; by Rolf Kanies in the 2002 made-for-TV film Joe and Max; by David Bamber in the 2008 film Valkyrie; Category: World War II Topic: Germany Keywords: autocrats, Berlin, Eva Braun, dictators, fascism, fascists, films, Germans, Germany, Hitler's bunker, Hitler's death, Hitler's mistress, Hitler's suicide, Hitler's wife, motion pictures, movies, National Socialism, Nazi Germany, Nazis, Nazism, Reichstag, Second World War, Soviet Army, suicides, Third Reich, tyrants, World War II, WWII, 1940s. Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 1350 x 935 (1.26 MPixels) (1.44) Print Size: 11.4 x 7.9 cm; 4.5 x 3.1 inches File Size: 3.64 MB (3,821,068 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000011382 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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