Gretl Braun Born : August 31, 1915 Died : October 10, 1987 Browse All Authors Top 72 quotes by Gretl Braun 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. Gretl Braun sunshine couple rose 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. Gretl Braun locks fighting long [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. Gretl Braun return waiting sides Eva [Braun] also cried when [Adolf Hitler] would leave her for long periods. She was inconsolable without him, that was a never-changing refrain. Gretl Braun refrain periods long [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. Gretl Braun spirit want trying 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. Gretl Braun lines fighting house My father would never have come to visit, he detested Eva's [Braun] choice in a man and the fact [Adolf] Hitler had set her up in an apartment. To him it was deeply humiliating that she was living with a man at his own whim at an apartment he was paying for. Gretl Braun choices men father When [Adolf] Hitler was in Munich, their place [with Eva Braun] to meet was always his apartment. Before that, it was at Hoffmann's place. They had their routine there, Hitler had his security there, it was a place he was used to. He never got used to the apartment he got us on the Widenmayerstraße . Gretl Braun munich routine used 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. Gretl Braun stressful-situations suicide summer What [Adolf Hitler] felt deep inside he wasn't going to show to outsiders. Gretl Braun outsiders deep-inside shows Hitler was flirting and courting Eva [Braun] I would say, but he was not serious about her yet. That took awhile to develop. Gretl Braun flirting serious 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." Gretl Braun fronts people Eva [Braun] wanted him [Adolf Hitler] to look his absolute best and he just didn't care. Gretl Braun care wanted looks 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 lines paper 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 letters promise 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 letters writing Love letters are supposed to be private. [Eva Braun] was very secretive about all that. Gretl Braun love-letter supposed-to-be letters I'm quite sure it happened in Berlin too when Eva [Braun] stayed there later on. I wouldn't know about that because I was scarcely ever there myself. I don't want to suggest she was crying all the time, but then they had their arguments, she was very downcast until she had cried it through. It happened on occasion. Gretl Braun berlin cry want Was [Adolf Hitler] rude to me? Never. He was always polite and well-mannered. Gretl Braun well-mannered polite rude I never had disagreements with [Adolf Hitler], I never saw him in an unpleasant frame of mind. Gretl Braun frame-of-mind saws mind