The Wives of the Top Nazi Leaders — the Women Who Married Monsters

Why did they choose to marry war criminals and murderers?

Eva Braun (left), Magda Goebbels (center), and Emmy Goering (right) (Image of Braun: moviefit.me, image of Goebbels:bild.de, and image of Goering: mirror.co.uk)

Yes, also the Nazi leaders got married. Some married out of love, some out of convenience. Yet, they still choose Holocaust and World War II over peaceful family life.

What were the stories of the women who married the most powerful Nazis?

1. Eva Braun — the wife of Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany

Eva Braun with Adolf Hitler (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

Adolf Hitler needs no introduction. As one of the evilest persons in history, he caused some of the darkest chapters in human history.

Eva Braun was Hitler’s hidden mistress for years. For less than forty hours she was also Hitler’s wife. They married at the end of World War II.

Beautiful, childish, and vain, Eva Braun (1912-1945) was Hitler’s ideal woman. She was desperately in love with Hitler, yet he neglected her.