Eva Braun took a lot of trouble to amuse the Führer. Once she tried to draw the photographer Walter Frentz and her friend Herta into a conversation about new films. Hitler began quietly whistling a tune. Eva Braun said, ‘You’re not whistling that properly, it goes like this.’ And she whistled the real tune. ‘No, no, I’m right,’ said the Führer. ‘I bet you I’m right,’ she replied. ‘You know I never bet against you because I’ll have to pay in any case,’ said Hitler. ‘If I win I must be magnanimous and refuse to take my winnings, and if she wins I have to pay her,’ he explained to the rest of us. ‘Then let’s play the record and you’ll see,’ suggested Eva Braun. Albert Bormann was the adjutant on duty. He rose and put the record in question - I forget what it was - on the gramophone. We all listened hard and intently, and Eva Braun turned out to be right. She was triumphant. ‘Yes,’ said Hitler. ‘So you were right, but the composer composed it wrong. If he’d been as musical as me then he’d have composed my tune.’ We all laughed, but I do believe Hitler meant it seriously.
Traudl Junge, Until the Final Hour: Hitler’s Last Secretary (via leiaandtheorganas)
i might read this book. it’s got 4/5 stars on goodreads and i thought this review was interesting:
“Before you pick this up, ask yourself this: Do you really want to read a book that presents a human side to Hitler? If your answer is, "Yes", then by all means read this. If your answer is, "No", then continue in your delusion that Hitler was actually the human embodiment of evil and that nothing terrible will ever happen again because Hitler took care of that and we're good now. Psssst. Your answer should be, "Yes". Banality of evil and all that. “
