Eva Braun — Downfall Character Profile

About Eva Braun

Hitler's companion, who refuses Fegelein's pleas to leave Berlin with him and hosts a party in the Reich Chancellery that is broken up by artillery fire. She marries Hitler in an early morning ceremony in the bunker and commits suicide with him; the couple is cremated in the Chancellery garden.

Character Facts

Played by

Juliane Köhler

Appears in

Downfall (2004)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (2)

• Eva Braun — Romantic Companion — Adolf Hitler (Bruno Ganz)

  Their intimate relationship culminates in marriage and joint suicide.

  Eva Braun is identified as Hitler's companion, marries him in the bunker, and commits suicide with him.

• Eva Braun — Family Brother-in-Law — SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein (Thomas Kretschmann)

  Fegelein is connected to Braun through marriage within her family.

  Fegelein is identified as the brother-in-law to Hitler's companion Eva Braun.

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