Eva Braun

Hitler's relationship with Eva Braun, which lasted nearly 14 years, was hidden from the public and all but his inner circle.^[24] Within that circle, he was open about Braun, and they lived together at Berchtesgaden as a couple. Hitler's valet, Heinz Linge, stated in his memoirs that Hitler and Braun had two bedrooms and two bathrooms with interconnecting doors at the Berghof, and Hitler would end most evenings alone with her in his study before they retired to bed. She would wear a dressing gown or house-coat and drink wine; Hitler would have tea.^[25] Braun biographer Heike Görtemaker notes that the couple enjoyed a normal sex life.^[26] Braun's friends and relatives described her giggling over a 1938 photograph of Neville Chamberlain sitting on a sofa in Hitler's Munich flat with the remark: If only he knew what goings-on that sofa has seen.