Eva Braun, who was also briefly Hitler’s wife, was 17 when she was introduced to him in 1929 by Hoffmann, who ran a Munich photography business where Braun worked.

The album, found in the bunker bedroom of Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler's mistress, features Hitler and henchmen including Heinrich Himmler and Josef Goebbels in lighter moments, the Telegraph reports.

A bourgeois teenager from Munich, Germany, Braun was uninterested in politics until one fateful morning in 1929, when her employer, a devout Nazi in whose photography studio she worked, asked her ...

If Braun can be absolved of guilt, she suggests, so can most German women, including her mother. "Any verdict on Eva is, in microcosm, a verdict on the German people," she writes.

A few weeks before the end, Braun joined Hitler in his Berlin bunker, where they were married in the early hours of April 29, 1945. Later on April 29, Hitler tested his poison on his dog, Blondi.