Photo by Walter Sanders of Margarethe Braun, sister of Eva, against romantic Obersalzburg landscape.  By contrast with Eva, Gretl seems to have been a bit of a "goer".  Perhaps to stop her "overgoing it", she was married to fellow-goodtimeperson Hermann Fegelein in June, 1944.  The marriage had issue, in the form of daughter Eva Barbara Fegelein (+1975).  The marriage did not help Hermann Fegelein when he attempted to abandon his post as Himmler's representative in the Bunker.  It remains somewhat unclear whether Eva Braun made any effort to intercede for her brother-in-law.  Best regards, JR.

Gretl Braun.

Adolf Hitler projects his charm (something he could certainly do when it suited him) on a little girl in this posed 'photo by Heinrich Hoffmann (?Obersalzburg) 1937.  Best regards, JR.

Father of his People ?

Brigadefuhrer-SS Dr. Hugo Johannes Blaschke, a man so feared that his appearance would reduce the highest leaders of the Third Reich to a state of shivering terror.  Was he a dangerous SD officer ?  An unreliable Gestapo psychopath ?  A regade SS judge ?  Well, no - he served Hitler, Himmler, Goering, Bormann et al.  as their ... dentist.  His bridgework on Hitler was used to help identify the Fuhrer's skull after things got a bit toasty in the Fuhrerbunker garden at the end.  Apparently, Hitler was a very, very nervous dental patient, and getting any work done on him was a severe trial to the good dentist.  It was perhaps inevitable that it was difficult enough to get the Fuhrer into the dentist's chair in the first place.  My wife may feel happy to nag me into getting that sore tooth looked at, but I suspect that Eva had a bigger propblem - all-powerful dictators are less open to persuasion on such points.  As a result, apparently, Hitler enjoyed pretty poor dental hygiene, and his treatments, when he finally submitted to them, were more painful and distressing than they might otherwise need to have been.  Best regards, JR.