Günsche, Otto, born 02-10-1903 in Jena in Thuringia. After leaving secondary school at 16 he volunteered because of his suitable height for the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler (did you know), originally the unit was composed of only eight men, commanded by SS Brigade Führer, Julius Schreck and Joseph Berchtold

Les Matins sont aujourd’hui en direct des Rendez-vous de l’histoire de Blois, une 21ème édition du festival, cette année consacrée au thème de la puissance des images.

Edda Goering 20 April 1944

Quand vous réfléchissez aux vieilles photos, vous pensez probablement à des images en noir et blanc, mais comme vous pouvez le constater en regardant les magnifiques clichés ci-dessous pris au tournant du 20e siècle, la photographie couleur existe depuis un bon moment déjà. Avant le 20e siècle, si vous désiriez une photo couleur, vous deviez

EVA BRAUN - Born in Munich, Eva Braun was the second daughter of school teacher Friedrich "Fritz" Braun (17 September 1879 – 22 January 1964) and Franziska "Fanny" Kronberger (12 December 1885 – 13 January 1976. She was educated at a Catholic lyceum in Munich, and then for one year at a business school in the Convent of the English Sisters in Simbach am Inn, where she had average grades and a talent for athletics.At age 17 she took a job working for Heinrich Hoffmann, the official photographer for the Nazi Party. Initially employed as a shop assistant and sales clerk, she soon learned how to use a camera and develop photos. She met Hitler, 23 years her senior, at Hoffmann's studio in Munich in October 1929. Eva's sister, Gretl, also worked for Hoffman from 1932 onward, and the women rented an apartment together for a time. Braun herself attempted suicide on 10 or 11 August 1932 by shooting herself in the chest with her father's pistol. After Braun's recovery, Hitler became more committed to her and by the end of 1932 they had become lovers. She often stayed overnight at his Munich apartment when he was in town. Braun worked as a photographer for Hoffmann from 1933 on. This position enabled her to travel—accompanied by Hoffmann—with Hitler's entourage, as a photographer for the NSDAP. Braun's second suicide attempt occurred in May 1935. She took an overdose of sleeping pills when Hitler failed to make time for her in his life. Hitler provided Eva and her sister with a three-bedroom apartment in Munich that August, and the next year the sisters were provided with a villa in Bogenhausen. By 1936, Braun was at Hitler's household at the Berghof near Berchtesgaden whenever he was in residence there, but she lived mostly in Munich. Braun also had her own apartment at the new Reich Chancellery in Berlin, completed to a design by Albert Speer. Braun continued to work for Hoffmann after commencing her relationship with Hitler. She took many photographs and movies of members of the inner circle, and some of these were sold to Hoffmann for extremely high prices. She received money from Hoffmann's company as late as 1943, and also held the position of private secretary to Hitler. This guise meant she could enter and leave the Chancellery unremarked, though she used a side entrance and a rear staircase. On 3 June 1944, Braun's sister Gretl married SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein, who served as Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler's liaison officer on Hitler's staff. Hitler used the marriage as an excuse to allow Braun to appear at official functions, as she could then be introduced as Fegelein's sister-in-law. When Fegelein was caught in the closing days of the war trying to escape to Sweden or Switzerland, Hitler ordered his execution. He was shot for desertion in the garden of the Reich Chancellery on 28 April 1945. In early April 1945, Braun travelled from Munich to Berlin to be with Hitler at the Führerbunker. She refused to leave as the Red Army closed in on the capital. After midnight on the night of 28–29 April, Hitler and Braun were married in a small civil ceremony within the Führerbunker. The event was witnessed by Joseph Goebbels and Martin Bormann. With Braun's marriage, her legal name changed to Eva Hitler. After 1:00 pm on the afternoon of 30 April 1945, Braun and Hitler said their farewells to staff and members of the inner circle. Later that afternoon, at approximately 3:30 pm, several witnesses reported hearing a loud gunshot After waiting a few minutes, Hitler's valet, Heinz Linge, and Hitler's SS adjutant, Otto Günsche, entered the small study and found the lifeless bodies of Hitler and Braun on a small sofa. Braun had bitten into a cyanide capsule and Hitler had shot himself in the right temple with his pistol. The corpses were carried up the stairs and through the bunker's emergency exit to the garden behind the Reich Chancellery, where they were burned. Braun was 33 years old when she died.

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Hitlers Schäferhündin Blondi, 1944

Goering-Sonneman, Emma , born 24-03-193 in Hamburg, became a well known actress at the National Theatre in Weimar.