Table of Contents
Introduction ix
Never Such Innocence Again
The First Strange and Fatal Interview 3
Eva's Family 16
Eva, Goethe, Schubert and Bambi 26
Tedious Lessons and Rebellious Games 35
Hitler's Childhood 55
Adolf to Fuhrer, Schoolgirl to Mistress
Eva Becomes Fraulein Braun, Hitler Becomes Fuhrer 71
Bavaria, the German Idyll 91
Geli and Hitler and Eva 100
Dying to Be with Hitler 125
Diary of a Desperate Woman 148
The Photograph Albums and Home Movies 161
Mistress-in-Waiting
Eva Leaves Home 177
Mistress 191
1936 - Germany on Display: The Olympics 211
The Best Years: Idling at the Berghof
The Women on the Berg 225
Three, Three, the Rivals ... 235
1937-9 - Eva at the Berghof: 'A Golden Cage' 253
1938-9 - The Last Summers of Peace 271
The War Years
1939 - War Approaches 281
Waiting for Hitler to Win the War 298
Eva, Gretl and Fegelein 311
1941-3 - What Could Eva Have Known? 323
... What Could Eva Have Done? 340
What Hitler Did 358
Culmination
February 1944-January 1945 - Eva at the Berghof with Gertraud 371
The Stauffenberg Plot and its Consequences 390
In the Bunker 401
Hitler's Last Stand 433
Frau Hitler for Thirty-six Hours 451
Aftermath 460
Acknowledgements 467
Select Bibliography 470
Appendix A 476
Index 477