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.

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.

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.

Right Arrow Digging History Eva Braun's things, recovered from a bunker, are sold By Arden Dier Newser Published November 8, 2016 9:41am EST | Updated November 8, 2016 12:02pm EST Flipboard ...