The Lost Life of Eva Braun
by Angela Lambert
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Author: Angela LambertEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-04-15
ISBN: 0312378653
Number of pages: 544
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
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Book Review: The first English biography about Eva Braun by someone of her own gender
Summary: 2 Stars
Lambert in her Introduction about Nerin Gun's biography ("Eva Braun: Hitler's Mistress"): "[...] his accuracy cannot be relied on. His book is chatty rather than authoritative, cites few dates, has not a single footnote and no bibliographical references, so nothing he asserts can be verified."
The author has indeed added footnotes so we can check the reliability, but official sources are unfortunately limited so she has relied on written and oral evidence from the people who knew her best (plus opinions from Lambert's personal friends). The "magnetic pull" to Hitler and other characters who lived in the dictators entourage is understandable but at times redundant. I fail for example to see the relevance to include a description of the director Leni Riefenstahl and her films; despite sentences like "Leni Riefenstahl's seductive images of athletes with sculpted muscles and gleaming skin are echoed by pictures of Eva in a swimsuit". The book could have been thinner. Some remarks could have been avoided or reformulated, unless the conclusions are based on fact. Perhaps Heinrich Himmler's wife was "a pathetic creature who had suffered shell schock while nursing at the front during the war", but considering the psychological effects on the human mind in times of war it would seem as a harsch judgement. Some photographs are rare and others have been published several times before (like the "rare snapshot" with Goebbels, Speer and others; the "unknown man" by the way, is most likely Karl Hanke). The author has added captions like: "Eva Braun - not a pretty baby", and "In photographs like these [...] her flat stomach proves that Eva was never pregnant." During a summer break Braun and her friends travelled to the Italian Riviera (Portofino) with a plane named "Orenzmark". Authentic film suggest that the name of the plane was "Grenzmark". Another plane or a spelling mistake?
This is apparently the first English biography about Eva Braun by someone of her own gender, and Lambert's effort to fill a gap is commendable, but the main problem besides Gertraud Weisker's (Braun's cousin) contribution is the lack of research material. A nice effort but nothing remarkable. I would probably recommend this biography to readers who appreciate books by Guido Knopp.
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