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WWII: Women of the Reich

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Adolf Hitler demonstrates his popularity with the women of Germany in 1943. Hitler refused to marry while Führer because he (reportedly) felt it would distract him from what he saw as his destiny, i.e., leading the Nazi Party and a unified Germany to greatness. Hitler's chauffeur, meanwhile, once called the Führer's longtime girlfriend, Eva Braun "the unhappiest woman in Germany." Braun and Hitler did finally marry in a bunker under Berlin in the spring of 1945 as the Reich was collapsing and the Russians were advancing -- she was 33, he was 56 -- but two days later they were both dead by suicide. Here, a look at some of the notable women associated -- directly and tangentially -- with the "Thousand-Year Reich."