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Eva Braun's letters discovered

The last words of Eva Braun, Hitler’s long time mistress and wife of a few hours, charting her fear of their certain death, have been discovered....

The letters are thought to have been written by Braun to her friend Herta Schneider.

Third Reich expert Anna Maria Sigmund insists the letters are genuine and were shown to her by descendants of Schneider.

She has published the series of letters in a book called The Women of the Nazis, and told the Daily Mail: “I have no doubt the letters are genuine and Eva Braun has typed them, correcting her faults by hand....

Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)