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• I saw a few lines from a few, there were hundreds of them, all [Adolf Hitler] letters and [Eva Braun] replies written on carbon paper. I just saw that her letters to him were lengthy, his were much shorter. I wouldn't intrude on their privacy and I had given her my word.

  Gretl Braun

  Paper, Lines, Letters

• I wish I had [letters], can you imagine their value, and I don't mean merely financially. I am sure they were accidentally destroyed or that Schaub found them and destroyed them. [Adolf] Hitler didn't want those letters read by anyone but Eva [Braun] and had made that point clear in the course of the years.

  Gretl Braun

  Mean, Years, Wish

• I knew [Eva Braun] wrote to [Adolf Hitler], I would see her writing to him and I would see her reading his notes or letters. She kept all that in a safe at the Berghof and nobody got near that safe except Hitler or Eva.

  Gretl Braun

  Reading, Writing, Letters

• At the end, [Eva Braun] begged me to spare these letters [to Adolf Hitler] and bury them. She specifically wrote to me and told me over the phone not to read any of the letters, she made me promise.

  Gretl Braun

  Phones, Promise, Letters

• Love letters are supposed to be private. [Eva Braun] was very secretive about all that.

  Gretl Braun

  Letters, Love Letter, Supposed To Be

• They [Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler] never entrusted their letters to the mail. There was always a courier, someone to hand deliver their letters.

  Gretl Braun

  Hands, Letters, Mail

• [Wilhelm] Bruckner was one of [Adolf] Hitler's adjutants, very close to him and he'd been in the party probably since day one. Personally neither of us could stand him.

  Gretl Braun

  Party

• Eva [Braun] liked to write cards and letters, she spent a great deal of time on this. She had lovely writing, lovely sets of stationary and she spent hours a day on her correspondence, at least later on.

  Gretl Braun

  Writing, Lovely, Cards

• Eva [Braun] loved [Adolf] Hitler and he was the only man in her life. She flirted and danced with other men but never would she have done more than that.

  Gretl Braun

  Men, Done

• [Adolf Hitler] would wear whatever what was put in front of him. He didn't match his ties or his shoes with his clothes, it was as if he deliberately dressed in such a way as to get Eva to get upset. It was his form of teasing or perhaps of controlling [Eva Braun], manipulating her emotions.

  Gretl Braun

  Shoes, Clothes, Ties

• More or less constantly [he tease he]. [Adolf Hitler] would tell her, "Oh Evi, you're getting so fat I can't dare be seen with you. You really need to reduce." Eva [Braun] would flew into a panic until he would laugh and reassure her.

  Gretl Braun

  Laughing, Needs, Panic

• Eva [Braun] wanted him [Adolf Hitler] to look his absolute best and he just didn't care.

  Gretl Braun

  Looks, Care, Wanted

• Whatever anybody wants to say about my sister, [Eva Braun] was always beautifully dressed with a great flair for fashion. [Adolf] Hitler was not this way.

  Gretl Braun

  Fashion, Want, Way

• [Adolf Hitler] had stubborn ideas about clothes and didn't care how he looked and this drove [Eva Braun] up the wall.

  Gretl Braun

  Wall, Ideas, Clothes

• Mostly [Eva Braun criticize Adolf Hitler] about his clothes, the cut and the fit of his clothes. This was an ongoing issue between them.

  Gretl Braun

  Cutting, Clothes, Issues

• [Eva Braun] complained when [Adolf Hitler] was absent, she complained that she was deprived of his company.

  Gretl Braun

  Company, Absent, Deprived

• It would have been inconceivable that Eva [Braun] would ever have criticized [Adolf Hitler] to me. To his face? Yes, she would, but to me or anybody in our family? Never. And woe to anybody who dared criticize him to her.

  Gretl Braun

  Woe, Faces, Criticize

• [Adolf Hitler] tried to make people feel at ease, he made that effort.

  Gretl Braun

  People, Effort, Ease

• [Adolf] Hitler had a very strong adolescent side to him, emotionally he was like a boy in certain things, like film stars and gossip.

  Gretl Braun

  Strong, Stars, Boys

• [Interminable monologues] became an issue only late in [Adolf] Hitler's life. He became repetitive after the war started going badly in Russia. He wasn't like this earlier on, he could be very funny in our small group, very relaxed, teasing and it was just a relaxed atmosphere.

  Gretl Braun

  War, Russia, Issues

• [Adolf] Hitler didn't discuss politics or military with Eva [Braun]. Not once.

  Gretl Braun

  Military

• She [Eva Braun] was always complaining later on, "I know nothing that's going on." They [with Adolf Hitler] talked about other things: dogs, movies, music, Munich gossip, who was going with who, who was cheating on their spouses, who was drinking too much or trying to quit. All sorts of local things like that.

  Gretl Braun

  Dog, Cheating, Drinking

• The negatives about [Adolf] Hitler were that he was away a lot and couldn't behave towards Eva [Braun] as he should.

  Gretl Braun

  Should, Behave

• The negatives were [Adolf Hitler] political philosophies, but neither Eva [Braun] or I knew anything that was going on.

  Gretl Braun

  Philosophy, Political, Political Philosophy

• [Adolf Hitler] had a very definite charm which enthralled most people who got to know him.

  Gretl Braun

  People, Charm, Knows