HITLER’S LOVE AFFAIR

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 12 June 1945, Page 5

HITLER’S LOVE AFFAIR

STORY TOLD BY BUTLER London, June 11 The Russian,. British and American officials in Germany are searching for a boy aged five and a girl aged four, who he reported to be the children of Hitler and Eva Braun, reports the Stockholm correspondent of the “Daily Express.” A Swedish Legation official who recently returned from Berlin said that Hitler* knew his love affair would become known soon after Germany’s collapse and he married Braun because he wanted to go down in history with a spotless personal record. The children are reported to be staying with a distant relative of Braun’s mother in southern Bavaria A “Daily Express” correspondent in Germany quotes Hitler's butler, Arthur Kannenberg, as saying that Hitler passionately arid faithfully loved Braun. There was nothing clever or unusually gay about Braun, though she possessed a strange attraction. She had long, blonde hair, and her face was rather .beautiful.

“Hitler carefully kept his ‘Eva’ secret from ihe German people and the visiting celebrities,” the butler said. “Fraulein Braun's age' was secret, but I judged her to be about 35. She was seldom permitted to appear in Berlin till late in the war. Then she went to theatre or opera every night but never with Hitler. She was nearly always accompanied by a younger sister, Greta, who married General Fegelein. the liaison officer between Himmler and Hitler. The senior generals did not like the fact that Hitler was brother-in-law to one of Himmler’s aides.

“The only quarrels between Hitler and Braun were over drinking. Braun liked her whisky and champagne, and Hitler was a strong teetotaller. Braun had no fear of him, because she knew he loved her.”