While civilians caught up in the conflict were able to record footages of Nazis razing whole cities, Hitler’s mistress Eva Braun filmed the ‘Fuhrer’ relaxing at his chalet in the Alps in the middle of the Nazi invasion of Europe.
Braun’s stained home movies, previously unseen images, have been treated through the efforts of archivists and private collectors. These recordings offer a valuable glimpse and showcase many nuances.
The new material, considered ‘top secret’ for seven decades, is now part of a documentary by the National Geographic Channel.
This documentary brings a different vision of victims and executioners – two very different realities at a point in history. It offers a visual evidence of the soldiers who participated in the Nazi campaign across Europe, the effect on the people who suffered, and the political and military leaders of the Holocaust.
The sacrifice of soldiers in Stalingrad, the Nazis holding their victory in Dunkirk, and horrific moments of bombings in France and England are some of the home movies put together in the six-episode documentary by the National Geographic Channel.
But the up close and personal images of Adolf Hitler could have only been recorded by his mistress, Eva Braun. Braun’s personal film recordings captured Hitler’s other side.
