She met Adolf Hitler for the first time in when she was 17-years-old, working as an aspiring model for Heinrich Hoffman, the official photographer of the Reich.
At the time, 1929, he was an older man with a "funny moustache", and a rising star in Germany's growing Nazi Party, known to her as "Herr Wolff".
Hitler began to see more of Braun after the apparent suicide of his niece Geli Raubal, with whom he was rumoured to have had a relationship.
By 1936 she was part of his household at his base near Berchtesgaden and appeared to live the life of luxury through the Second World War.
Contrary to what the photographs suggest, Eva Braun's life was not a happy one. After she took up with Hitler, much to the disapproval of her lower-middle class Catholic parents, she was kept virtually under lock and key and most Germans never knew of her existence until after her death.
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