The horrific acts and history behind World War II have terrified and fascinated millions for the past few generations, and the story behind Eva Braun's wedding to Adolf Hitler is one of the points that gets more people to wonder, as they were married for approximately one day before committing suicide as Allied forces closed in on Berlin.
Eva Braun's wedding to Hitler happened on April 28 or 29 1945, when it had become clear that Germany had lost WWII; then, less than 40 hours later and after only a small celebration of their marriage in the form of a breakfast, both of their bodies were found together.
On April 30, almost two days after Eva Braun's wedding, she was found dead after having bitten into a cyanide capsule, while Hitler's chosen method of death was a bullet in his right temple.
"I myself and my wife, in order to escape the disgrace of deposition or capitulation, choose death," said Hitler in a statement to his valet the day after Eva Braun's wedding, according to Business Insider. "It is our wish to be burnt immediately on the spot where I have carried out the greatest part of my daily work in the course of a twelve years' service to my people."
Not long afterwards, the infamously iconic politician found out that his strongest ally, Italy's Benito Mussolini, had been murdered by an anti-fascist mob as the Mediterranean country's government was also toppled by Allies.
According to The Daily Mail, recreations of the day after Eva Braun's wedding have given history buffs a very exact timeline of what went down in those last fateful hours of her and Hitler's life; it's even been specified that, after having had the job of being Hitler's valet and helping him get dressed for six years, Heinz Linge found the German Chancellor fully dressed for the first time ever upon knocking on the politician's door.
At about this time last year, The Independent reported on a shocking discovery: a DNA analysis of Braun's remains found that the woman who had been Hitler's mistress for 14 years before their marriage was actually closely related to Ashkenazi Jews.
The discovery was made when scientists analyzed remains of Braun's hair in one of her brushes, revealing that Eva Braun's wedding may have seen Hitler may marrying a woman of Semitic descent.
