Hitler’s mistress with him, dead or alive, gossip says
Were very much in love, declares woman who watched Fuehrer’s trysts with blond
By Jack Fleischer, United Press staff writer
MUNICH – Dead or alive, Adolf Hitler’s sweetheart, Eva Braun, is with him, according to a gray-haired gossip who watched their comings and goings here since their affair began.
“They were obviously very much in love,” said Frau Marie Schiffler. She gave details of the love life of Hitler and the blond, brown-skinned Fraulein who persuaded him to wear striped pajamas and silk underwear.
“Wherever Hitler is – dead or alive – you can be sure Eva is at his side,” Frau Schiffler said. She added that Eva left for Berlin a month ago, apparently at Hitler’s orders. She was taken away at night in a big black auto, guarded heavy by SS troopers.
Works in building
Frau Schiffler had worked 20 years in the Munich building where Hitler had an apartment for 16 years and held his trysts with Eva.
With relish, she told how Eva used to spend the night in Hitler’s apartment. In the morning, Hitler would leave first. Half an hour later, Eva would slip out and hurry to her car, parked a couple of blocks away.
When Hitler first moved into Prinzregenten Strasse 16, he shared an apartment with a married couple because he couldn’t afford his own. But after his rise to power, he had a remodeled, luxurious, 10-room apartment. Many a night he spent there with chunky Eva, Frau Schiffler said.
Knew housekeeper
Much of her information came straight from Hitler’s housekeeper, Frau Annie Winter, and her husband George.
“Hitler used to spend much of the time at his apartment,” Frau Schiffler said. “But during the war, his visits became less and less frequent especially after the air raids began on a large scale in 1942. So far as I know, he only slipped in here once in the last seven months.
“Whenever he was here, Eva almost always came over from her villa and stayed with Der Fuehrer until he left. Or often he spent part of his visit at her villa.
“Occasionally before the war, Hitler took Eva to the theater, but otherwise they never were seen in public together.”
Nevertheless, the details of Hitler’s love life were well known among German gossips. Just before the war began, Hitler was reported ready to marry Eva. He even was said to have bought a wedding ring and ordered her wedding present, a custom-built Mercedes touring car.
Eva sometimes shopped in Munich for Hitler’s birthday and Christmas presents. On one occasion, she bought him blue and white-striped pajamas, the national colors of Bavaria. She was said to be the one who persuaded him to wear silk underwear, and to be more careful in his dress generally.
Virtual prisoner
Lately, according to Frau Schiffler, Eva was a virtual prisoner in her villa on the Wasserburger Strasse. The SS guard from Hitler’s apartment building also guarded her house day and night.
Frau Schiffler said so far as she knew Eva was the only woman in Hitler’s life. However, it was reported from Germany when the details about Eva first leaked out that she twice made unconvincing cuts on her wrist when she was piqued with jealousy. Apparently, she wanted to arouse Hitler’s sympathy with suicide attempts.
The air raid shelter here was stacked with thousands of letters to Hitler, most of them from women.