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TYPE: Book
DIMENSIONS: 3 1/2 x 5 1/8 in.
COMPONENTS: 490pp. in black cloth with gold cross on cover and gold title 'Gottes Dienst' on spine, cardboard slipcase. Affixed to the rear pastedown is a calling card imprinted: 'Fraulein Eva Braun Wasserburger Str. 12, Munchen 27 Telefon 480073'. This was the address of Braun's parents in Munich.
CONDITION: There are a few small toned spots at the right margin indicating genuine age, and we have never seen an example of this card before, but otherwise there is no additional provenance other than to state that this piece has been held in a private collector's hands for over 40 years.
LANGUAGE
German
ITEM ID: 5736
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Eva Braun’s Prayer and Hymn Book

DATE
Year: 1937
Decade: 1930s
Century: 20th (1901-2000)

Small clothbound “Church Service Prayer and Hymn Book for the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising” (Munich: J. Pfeiffer Verlag).

Eva Braun (1912 – 1945) German mistress and later wife of Nazi Fuhrer Adolf Hitler, she later committed suicide with him in the Fuhrerbunker of the Chancellery in Berlin in on April 30th, 1945.

Braun met Hitler in Munich when she was a 17 year old assistant and model for his personal photographer Heinrich Hoffman.