Adolf Hitler’s real-life mistress. In the book, Eva is friends with Klara and invites Ursula and Frieda to come to Hitler’s mansion, the Berghof. In a later timeline, Ursula uses her knowledge about Eva’s life to get close to Hitler in the 1930s, before the start of World War II, in order to kill him and prevent the war.
Eva Braun Quotes in Life After Life
The Life After Life quotes below are all either spoken by Eva Braun or refer to Eva Braun. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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The Land of Begin Again, Aug 1939
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Powerful men needed their women to be unchallenging, the home should not be an arena for intellectual debate. “My own husband told me this so it must be true!” she wrote to Pamela.
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Ursula Todd (speaker), Pamela Todd, Derek Oliphant, Jürgen Fuchs, Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun
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What had the Fuhrer’s apprenticeship for greatness been? Eva shrugged, she didn’t know. “He’s always been a politician. He was born a politician.” No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become.
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Eva Braun (speaker), Ursula Todd, Adolf Hitler
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Eva Braun Character Timeline in Life After Life
The timeline below shows where the character Eva Braun appears in Life After Life. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
The Land of Begin Again, August 1939
Six years later, Ursula is at the grand Berghof, and Eva Braun (Hitler’s mistress) is playing with Ursula’s five-year-old daughter, Frieda. Frieda has blond hair, blue...
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...Berg”—Hitler’s mansion—is bustling with other women, many of whom are senior party officials who hate Eva for managing to marry the leader of the Reich. Eva had been a shop girl...
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Eva takes lots of pictures of Ursula and Frieda, and Ursula imagines a future time in...
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...she did. When Ursula returned home from the hospital, she had received a letter from Eva, inviting them to the Berg to help Frieda recover.
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Ursula had never met Eva. Eva knew of her through Klara, as they used to work together and went to...
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When Hitler is not at the Berg, Ursula notes that Eva doesn’t really know what to do with herself. Ursula sees Eva as amiable, chatting about...
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Ursula asks Eva one day how Hitler became the great leader he is. Eva says that “he was...
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Ursula tells Eva one day at lunch that she thinks Frieda is well enough to go home. Ursula...
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The End of the Beginning
...tell the girl working there that she’s having trouble with her camera, and then seventeen-year-old Eva Braun would offer to help her. She thinks that she is fulfilling her destiny: “Become...
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Be Ye Men of Valor (II), December 1930
Ursula knows that Eva likes fashion and makeup and gossip. She goes to the skating rink with Eva and...
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