- Title: Eva Braun's Hitler photo album to go up for auction
- Date: 13th March 2017
- Summary: NAZIS IN UNIFORM VARIOUS OF HITLER VARIOUS PHOTOS IN ALBUM VARIOUS OF HITLER SITTING ON A ROCK BY A LAKE
- Embargoed: 27th March 2017 17:20
- Keywords: Adolf Hitler Germany Eva Braun England photo album
- Location: KENARDINGTON, KENT, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM / UNKNOWN / VARIOUS LOCATIONS, POLAND
- City: KENARDINGTON, KENT, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM / UNKNOWN / VARIOUS LOCATIONS, POLAND
- Country: United Kingdom
- Topics: Arts/Culture/Entertainment
- Reuters ID: LVA00467SNOLJ
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: A photo album containing candid photos of Adolf Hitler found in Eva Braun's bedroom in Berlin, is to go on sale at auction on Wednesday (March 15).
"The pictures are very personal. They had to be taken by someone who had clearance to get close to the Fuehrer and close to that inner circle. We've got shots of the bodyguards and this is why one of the stories ran at the time, claimed that this individual was a boyfriend of Eva Braun," said Tim Harper from C&T auctions who are selling the item in Kent, southern England.
The album includes personal images of Hitler's inner circle including leading Nazis, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Goering and Heinrich Himmler.
It also features photos of the Nazi dictator sitting reading files and out with bodyguards and members of the SS.
"Hitler's image, particularly his photographs, were controlled. They had to be approved..so the shots you are seeing in this album are natural, relaxed, a number of them are amusing and almost certainly they would not have been allowed to be published.They are quite revealing," Harper said.
The album was discovered by British photographer Edward Dean, who along with reporter Richard Dimbleby entered Hitler's bunker in April 1945.
"They went to the bunker. A Russian soldier, very obligingly took them round and they broke into a room which was Eva Braun's bedroom and the Russian soldier prized open her draw and got the album from there," Harper said.
Dean wrote a list confirming their discovery, detailing that he had taken the album from Braun's room.
In July 1945, British tabloid newspaper, "The Daily Mirror" wrote a story about the album, alleging that the photographer who took the images was one of Hitler's personal bodyguards and had been having a relationship with Braun.
"We have an account of its discovery, backed up a couple of months later with some photos of it within a newspaper. That makes it very rare, because we can say with certainty that it came out of the bunker," Harper said.
The album will appear at auction on March 15 in Royal Tunbridge Wells and is estimated to sell for more than 15 thousand pounds. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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