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Adapted from an actual fragment of Braun's diary, this novel offers a look at what it was like to be the love of one of the world's cruelest men.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Real Story on the Holocaust, 15 May 1999

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Although this is a work of fiction, it is inspired by real diaries written by Eva Bran. Those you won't need to see, as this author has filled in all the things that "Mrs Hitler" left out: Like how she was actually the person who inspired Adolf to begin the program to exterminate the Jews of Europe. Remarkably, the author did not cover the post-war story on Eva. There are remarkable documents emerging from Israel which prove conclusivly that Hitler and Eva escaped aboard a submarine to Argentina. Once there they were unable to control themselves and began a campaign of terrorism throughout the world. Eva was the person who inspired even the Turner Diaries, so well known in the US. For her it was a psycho-sexual release. The tally for all the damage caused by Hitler and Eva is being assessed by an international team of Jewish humanitarians, and their representative will be making a few more calls as soon as he is done talking with the Swiss bankers who, even to this day, have been supplying the sinsister duo with pocket money.

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2.0 out of 5 stars A feeble offering from a fine writer, 4 April 1999

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I feel that Alison Leslie Gold, whose book on Anne Frank I thought very fine, was unwise to choose this topic. In approaching the relationship between Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler, her imagination seems to have recoiled. A kind of paralysis sets in immediately after the brilliantly-written description of the horribly real people who sell the author the "Diary." Alas, these are the last horribly real characters to appear in the novel. The unrelenting banality of the "Diary" entries seems to owe much to a reading of Hannah Arendt, without Arendt's originality. Alas, it not only makes dull prose -- it offers nothing new. This was an opportunity for Gold to say something about a much-neglected topic, offer some insight into a notorious but little-understood relationship, but she has largely passed up the opportunity. Seen beside any real effort, in fiction or non-fiction, to look at the nature of Hitler, I'm afraid that this book pales into insignificance.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Seriously written?, 30 Oct 1998

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Eva Braun met Hitler the first time when she was working as the assistant of Hitler's personal photographer Hoffmann. Soon Hitler met her once in Hoffmann's office in M�nchen and few weeks after this meeting she followed him (Hitler) to his mountain retreat in the alps. Hitler had to hide his companion because of his relationsship with the people, especially the women - who with out a doubt would have been jealous to the woman who was dating the most wanted bachelor in Germany.And because of this Eva could rarely be with Hitler, depressed Eva tried suicide two times. In berchtesgarden she could relax with the closest people surrounding Hitler, Like Albert Speer and the other guests. After years of hiding Hitler married Eva Braun in the "F�hrer Bunker" in berlin just a few hours before their double suicide. -In the book Eva Braun is portrayed as a selfish down right stupid naive childish sexmachine etc... So was she the incarnation of some monster? The people who really met her said the opposite. Albert Speer also known as the nazi who appologized said that she was: "Very kind, and the sort of person who takes consideration of other people" Otto G�nsche Hitler's adjutant and member of a ring of people who followed Hitler on his travels . Was on the bunker of Hitler on may -45 and there he met Eva tha last time: " I saw her ( Eva Braun) walking on the corridor of the bunker, in the ruined and hopeless surrounding of Berlin she was a source of somekind of comfort and cheer" The so-called diaries of Eva Braun are 99% produce of imagination as the" Hitler Diaries" in 1983.So what would be better money maker then a book about the wife of the most hated man of our century??? This book is an exellent sterotype of the fiction and second rate history books which unfortunatley appears now and then.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An eerie portrait of a cruel woman
I found the book " The Devil's Mistress " by Alison Leslie Gold , to be very interesting and at the same time very disturbing. Read more

Published on 4 Dec 1997

5.0 out of 5 stars The stage of human sewage.
I stayed up late to make sure Eva Braun and her faceless empty man would come to an end in my imagination. This book brought them out live on a stage of human sewage. Read more

Published on 21 Nov 1997

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