Gretl Braun Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

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

#People #Worried #Private Life

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

#Individual #Secretive

“After [Adolf] Hitler took power, Hoffmann moved to a grander place on the Ebersbergerstrasse. I never saw the first house, I was never there. It was at the Schnorrstrasse that Eva [Braun] and he first really got to know each other. Some of this was before Geli Raubal's death, much of it was after that event.”
-- Gretl Braun

#House #Events #Saws

“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

“[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.”
-- Gretl Braun

#Expression #Wells

“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.”
-- Gretl Braun

#Great Love #Romance #Made

“It would have been inconceivable that Eva [Braun] would ever have criticized [Adolf Hitler] to me. To his face? Yes, she would, but to me or anybody in our family? Never. And woe to anybody who dared criticize him to her.”
-- Gretl Braun

#Woe #Faces #Criticize

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

#Negative #Sides #My Sister

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

#Wall #Ideas #Clothes

“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.”
-- Gretl Braun

#Upset #Bothered #Immune

“I wish I had [letters], can you imagine their value, and I don't mean merely financially. I am sure they were accidentally destroyed or that Schaub found them and destroyed them. [Adolf] Hitler didn't want those letters read by anyone but Eva [Braun] and had made that point clear in the course of the years.”
-- Gretl Braun

#Mean #Years #Wish

“[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.”
-- Gretl Braun

#Done #Able #Minutes

“I don't think they [Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler] quarreled during the war, he was so completely absorbed in his duties that disagreements just didn't crop up anymore, they were much settled down together by then.”
-- Gretl Braun

#War #Thinking #Together

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

#Financial #Aspect #Involved

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

#Military

“She [Eva Braun] was always complaining later on, "I know nothing that's going on." They [with Adolf Hitler] talked about other things: dogs, movies, music, Munich gossip, who was going with who, who was cheating on their spouses, who was drinking too much or trying to quit. All sorts of local things like that.”
-- Gretl Braun

#Dog #Cheating #Drinking

“[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.”
-- Gretl Braun

#Party

“More or less constantly [he tease he]. [Adolf Hitler] would tell her, "Oh Evi, you're getting so fat I can't dare be seen with you. You really need to reduce." Eva [Braun] would flew into a panic until he would laugh and reassure her.”
-- Gretl Braun

#Laughing #Needs #Panic

“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.”
-- Gretl Braun

#Men #Done

“I wouldn't trust a man and woman who never had their fights.”
-- Gretl Braun

#Fighting #Men #Men And Women

“At the Berghof, it was almost like a family atmosphere there. We all ate meals together, watched films together before the war, listened to records, all those things. The same faces were always around on the mountain. If [Adolf] Hitler and Eva [Braun] had an argument there, it would have been obvious to me, because I knew Eva.”
-- Gretl Braun

#War #Atmosphere #Together

“For instance, [Adolf Hitler] would never have spent the night at the Widenmayerstraße apartment. He visited it before we moved the furniture in, he visited maybe 4 times afterwards and he never spent the entire night.”
-- Gretl Braun

#Night #Furniture #Apartment

“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.”
-- Gretl Braun

#Couple #Talking #Periods

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

#Want #Said #Do Whatever You Want

“[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

#Waiting #Return #Sides

“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 #Promise #Letters

“[Interminable monologues] became an issue only late in [Adolf] Hitler's life. He became repetitive after the war started going badly in Russia. He wasn't like this earlier on, he could be very funny in our small group, very relaxed, teasing and it was just a relaxed atmosphere.”
-- Gretl Braun

#War #Russia #Issues

“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

#People #Fronts

“What [Adolf Hitler] felt deep inside he wasn't going to show to outsiders.”
-- Gretl Braun

#Outsiders #Shows #Deep Inside

“[Adolf Hitler] had a very definite charm which enthralled most people who got to know him.”
-- Gretl Braun

#People #Charm #Knows