Gretl Braun Quotes

[Adolf Hitler] was very close-mouthed, he was the most private individual I have ever seen, very secretive.

[Eva Braun] loved [Adolf Hitler]. She would have done that had she been able to spend 10 minutes with him. She endured a lot on his behalf, there's a great deal on that subject to be said.

[Adolf Hitler] hardly ever called [Eva Braun] "Eva." He had many Austrian diminutives for her. He called her "Evi" quite often as well as Schatzerl, Evchen, as well as other Austrian expressions.

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.

Wagner festival was [Adolf Hitler] time with the Wagner family. [Eva Braun] asked once to attend but he forbade it and that was that, she never asked again.

[Adolf Hitler] was an emotional man, he had tremendous highs and he could get low as well, I've seen it.

I wouldn't trust a man and woman who never had their fights.

[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.

I have also seen [Adolf] Hitler upset when they had been having words. He was not immune from being bothered or upset by their relationship.

I didn't experience the negative side of [Adolf] Hitler. My sister [Eva Braun] did, that's a big distinction.

[Adolf Hitler] was always intensely worried about security and people watching or being nosy, intruding on his private life.

Eva [Braun] and I were never involved in the financial aspects of where [Adolf] Hitler put her up.

This was all very early on, there was no romance between them then,[Adolf] Hitler was living with Geli Raubal and made a very big display over her, that she was his great love and so forth.

Definitely they [Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun] argued, especially in the period we've just been talking about, the middle 1930's. They were like any other couple.

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

It was just a terribly stressful situation and dreary. A few months after [Eva Braun] suicide attempt, [Adolf] Hitler moved us both to the apartment, it was in the summer.

Eva [Braun] also cried when [Adolf Hitler] would leave her for long periods. She was inconsolable without him, that was a never-changing refrain.

[Eva Braun] always called him der Führer to us. It was ridiculous, but she never changed that.

[Eva Braun] lived life with [Adolf] Hitler, when he was away, she just filled up her time without Hitler. That was the sum total of it, really.

[Adolf Hitler] was Austrian, so he knew how to play that role [being capable of apologizing]. In fact, it wasn't playacting, it was just part of who he was. He hated to see women cry or women upset.

[Eva Braun] was the one who was involved with [Adolf Hitler], who was close to him.

In the years before the war, whenever [Adolf] Hitler would be holed up in Bayreuth, Eva [Braun], myself and our mother often went to Italy for a week.

When we were in the Munich house, sometimes [Adolf Hitler] would call the house line after one of their fights. They would talk and then Eva [Braun] would emerge from her room and behave normally.

I never had disagreements with [Adolf Hitler], I never saw him in an unpleasant frame of mind.

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

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

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

I knew when they [with Adolf Hitler] had been fighting because Eva [Braun] always reacted the same way. She would lock herself in her bedroom and cry and cry, sometimes for a long time.

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

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.

They [Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun] had their disagreements, it wasn't all sunshine and roses, but it isn't that way for any married couple.

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

[Eva Braun] would much rather have been at [Adolf ] Hitler's side. All those excursions were to fill up her time while waiting for him to return.

Hitler was flirting and courting Eva [Braun] I would say, but he was not serious about her yet. That took awhile to develop.

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

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

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.

In front of other people it was almost always "Fräulein Braun." Just as [Eva Braun] called him "der Führer," [Adolf Hitler] called her "Fräulein Braun."

What [Adolf Hitler] felt deep inside he wasn't going to show to outsiders.

[Eva Braun] always said, "you're the Führer, you can do whatever you want to do."

[Eva Braun] would also refer to [Adolf Hitler] as "the boss" (der Chef), but she never called him "Adolf" or "Adi" to anyone after the very early days. It was always der Führer.

Late in his life, that's another matter, [Adolf Hitler] was not the same man in 1944 and he was, say, in 1934.

Was [Adolf Hitler] rude to me? Never. He was always polite and well-mannered.

[Eva Braun] was careful, she was always careful about what she divulged to me or to anyone about [Adolf] Hitler.

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

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

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

[Eva Braun] did not want me to interrupt her or try to lift her spirits. She told me she had to go through these periods by herself.

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