Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun’s private life in photos

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Hitler was 23 years Braun's senior, and the public wasn't aware of their relationship until after their dual suicide in a bunker in 1945, roughly 40 hours after their wedding.

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The entire inner circle was keen on letting loose when the time called for it.

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Acting like a couple in public was a no-go for Hitler and Braun; his goal was to appear as much like a leader as possible and felt that any sign of romance would take away from that.

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Braun and Hitler, like other couple, did occasionally spat. Hitler's propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, wrote in a diary about how the two would sometimes squabble over details in the apartments and her dislike for his vegetarian diet, the Guardian reports.

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The two also enjoyed a "normal sex life," according to the Guardian. When Braun giggled after seeing a photo of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain sitting on a sofa at Hitler's apartment in Munich, she remarked "If only he knew what goings-on that sofa has seen."

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Eva Braun first met Adolf Hitler when she was 17, when she had taken a job as an assitant and a sales person for Heinrich Hoffman, the Nazi Party's photographer. The two didn't become romantically involved until 1932, when she was 20.

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The two ultimately committed suicide the afternoon of April 30, 1945, with Braun biting into a cyanide capsule and Hitler shooting himself. Their bodies were burned behind the Reich Chancellery shortly after.

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Eva legally changed her name to Eva Hitler when the two wed on April 29, 1945, just after midnight. The two then engaged in a wedding breakfast.

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While he may not have always shown it, Hitler did care about Braun. He wrote her into his will (with her to receive 12,000 Reichsmarks a year should he die before her), spent many evenings alone with her drinking tea and wine, and later found ways for her to be in rooms where political tactics were being discussed.

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Eva Braun was completely devoted to Adolf Hitler as a lover. She attempted suicide twice to get his attention when he was preoccupied with politics and the death of his niece, Geli Raubal.

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But behind closed doors, the two regularly spent time with friends and each other. Festivities, like celebrating Hitler's birthday, weren't a rarity, either.

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Gretl Braun, Eva's sister who shot the home movie this still is from, was also a member of Hitler's inner circle. The sisters were given apartments in Munich by the dictator and attended parties with them. Gretl even married Nazi Party leader Hermann Fegelein in 1944.