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EVA BRAUN’S HOME MOVIES
National Archives, Record Group
242.2, Motion Pictures Branch, Archives II, College Park, Maryland
Annotations by Geoffrey R. Walden
Notes:
Times (in hours:minutes:seconds) refer to running times on the 3-DVD set
- the one that reproduces the entire film set in the National Archives (see
below).
As assembled from the separate film
spools found in 1945, the reels as they exist today are extremely jumbled –
films from the same day appear on several different reels. Additionally, the set
contains a film that was not one of Eva Braun’s (10 minutes at the beginning
of Reel 4).
Many of the people in these films
were Eva Braun’s family and friends – not Nazi notables. Eva Braun and her
sister Margarete (Gretl) can sometimes be difficult to tell apart in these
films, as they often looked very similar to each other. When they appear
together they can be told apart, but when they appear separately, it can be
sometimes difficult to say which it is.
DVD DISC 1/3
Reel 1
Start --
swimming at Königssee – Franciska “Fanny” Braun (Eva’s mother),
Gretl Braun, Ursula “Uschi” Schneider (daughter of Eva’s friend Herta
Ostermeyer Schneider), Eva (or Gretl?) swims in the nude, Fritz Braun (Eva’s father) (B/W)
3:28 --
friends at the Kehlsteinhaus (incl. Herta Schneider and her husband Erwin
(?), Uschi Schneider, Braun family, Eva,
Gretl)
4:32 --
swimming at Königssee (Schneider family, Braun family, EB, Gretl, dogs,
and others)
8:26 --
sunbathing at Kehlsteinhaus (same group)
11:00 --
Berghof, Obersalzberg – Brauns and Schneiders with children and dogs
get on a bus
11:31 --
Berghof – house staff, secretaries, and adjutants congratulate Hitler
(with Herbert Döhring, Margarete Mittlstrasser (Berghof staff), Otto Günsche
(one of Hitler’s SS aides), Martin Bormann, Adolf Wagner (Gauleiter of
Munich), Heinrich Hoffmann (Hitler’s photographer), Dr. Theo Morell
(Hitler’s personal physician), Wilhelm Brückner (Hitler’s personal
adjutant), Gerda Daranowski and Christa Schroeder (Hitler’s secretaries), Eva
and Gretl Braun, Dr. Karl Brandt (Hitler’s surgeon) (probably New Years 1939/40
– same as photo in EB photo album 8, NARA Still Pictures Branch)
13:12 --
EB swimming at Schliersee
13:50 --
EB acrobatics
14:10 --
Obersalzberg - view from Berghof window (Bormann’s house), Berghof side
terrace, picture window, panoramic views from the Berghof window and terrace
(color)
15:53 --
Mooslahnerkopf Teehaus overlook and Teehaus interior (part) (color)
16:37 --
Berghof – Adolf Hitler with Adolf Wagner (Gauleiter of Munich)
16:47 --
“Die bunte Film Schau No. 2 aufgenommen von Eva Braun” (with Eva’s
EB monogram as a 4-leaf clover) – Eva edited and titled this sequence –
“The Variety Film Show No. 2, Filmed by Eva Braun” - “Wir baden im
Schliersee” – EB acrobatics, walks in woods (includes Fanny Braun, Sofie
Stork (an artist friend of AH and EB), sculptor Arno Breker’s widow) – “Um
Starnberger-see” - swimming – EB on air mattress, Braun family members –
“Im Chiemsee” – Braun family in trachten clothing, swimming, boating –
“Wolfgangsee” – water skiing – “Im Aschauer Weiher” – swimming
with children – “Im Wörthsee” – sunbathing/swimming with Braun family
and friends, EB (or Gretl ?) poses with umbrella – “Pünktchen am Berg”
(29:46) – sunbathing at Berghof – same as EB album photos (Eva, Frau Below
(?), Gerda Bormann and Herta Schneider sunbathe, Frau Below (?) poses, Gretl
Braun and Herta Schneider take snapshots, table tennis, EB with Uschi, dog) –
“Im Schorn Weiher” – Königssee - diving, dogs in water, EB in tree,
acrobatics (color)
36:52 --
Berghof seen from Mooslahnerkopf Teehaus route (color)
37:28 --
Hitler on Berghof terrace, with architect Albert Speer, Teehaus walk,
with Speer children, with Baldur von Schirach, Joachim von Ribbentrop, LAH guard
on Berghof steps (color)
41:47 --
EB picks flowers with Margarete Speer (color)
42:51 --
inside Berghof (dark) – Hitler with Joachim von Ribbentrop, Martin
Bormann (B/W)
Reel 2
44:12 --
Berghof views, Josef Goebbels arrives in Mercedes and is greeted by
Julius Schaub (Hitler’s personal adjutant), at the Mooslahnerkopf overlook,
Teehaus walk, Teehaus scenes (Dr. Karl Brandt outside), Watzmann mountain
(47:32), panoramas (color)
47:52 --
Hitler on Berghof terrace with Wilhelm Brückner, LAH honor guard,
Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, others, LAH honor
guard, Heinrich Hoffmann, Graf (Count) Galeazzo Ciano (Italian Foreign Minister)
arrives (50:11) (color)
48:10 --
Hitler does a little “dance” on the Berghof terrace, in a well-known
scene
50:29 --
Berghof terrace with guests – Brandts, Speers, Essers, Morells,
Bormanns, Wilhelm Brückner, Walter Hewel, Max Wünsche (SS aide), secretaries,
Ribbentrop makes face (color)
51:46 --
Teehaus walk with Bormann, Ribbentrop, Brückner and others; Teehaus
interior with Ribbentrop (color)
52:17 --
drive to Kehlsteinhaus, Kehlsteinhaus in snow (color)
53:58 --
EB with Bormann children at Bormann house (Easter egg hunt) (color)
54:45 --
view of background buildings from Bormann house (greenhouse, SS Kaserne
– includes Hanni Morell, Gerda Bormann, Frau Esser, Adolf Wagner, Martin
Bormann, Gretl Braun) (color)
54:52 --
AH at Berghof terrace with Julius Schaub, Adolf Wagner, Martin Bormann,
Frau Esser, Hanni Morell, Hermann Esser, Dr. Theo Morell; Gretl Braun, EB on
terrace (color)
57:01 --
EB with Franz X. Schwarz and wife on Berghof terrace (color)
57:41 --
EB poses in dirndl on Berghof terrace, makes face (color)
58:29 --
AH with his dog Blondi, Hermann Esser on side terrace, Blondi plays
(color)
58:45 --
AH secretaries Gerda Daranowski and Christa Schroeder in dirndls on
Berghof terrace (color)
59:03 --
AH inside Berghof Wintergarten (color)
59:10 --
Berghof views, Gretl Braun with Walter Hewel, AH with Adolf Wagner
(color)
1:00:46 --
Gerda Daranowski and EB (or Gretl ?) inside Wintergarten (B/W)
1:01:03 --
Berghof panorama, AH descends staircase, AH in overcoat (color)
1:02:28 --
Berghof interior (dark) – AH greets ladies (B/W)
1:03:16 --
birdhouses with Watzmann, AH at Berghof in snow, with Blondi (B/W)
1:04:30 --
Watzmann view, children play in snow, AH at Berghof with lots of snow
(color)
1:05:10 --
Braun family swimming at Königssee, water horseplay (color)
1:08:22 --
Berghof terrace – Wilhelm Brückner, Gerda Bormann, Dr. Karl Brandt,
unk. guy (color)
1:09:05 --
Mooslahnerkopf Teehaus walk and views, overlook (color)
1:09:29 --
Berghof terrace – Walter Hewel, Gerda Bormann, Wilhelm Brückner, Gerda
Daranowski, Albert Speer, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Hitler, Max Amman, Hanni Morell, Berghof front view, back on terrace – Brückner clowns around; Anni
Brandt and Margarete Speer (color)
1:11:26 --
Teehaus walk (color) (Villa Bechstein at 1:11:40)
1:11:41 --
Braun family and others at Kehlsteinhaus (Uschi Schneider, Heinrich
Hoffmann with his son Heinrich Jr. (“Heini”), guy clowning at falling, Herta
Schneider with her daughter Brigitte (“Gitta”) (B/W)
1:14:11 --
sunbathing, swimming, playing with kitten (B/W)
1:15:15 --
Hitler at Berghof with Joachim von Ribbentrop, Martin Bormann (B/W)
1:15:39 --
Bormann children playing at Kehlsteinhaus, in the greenhouse (Easter egg
hunt?), with Frau Esser, Hanni Morell, Gretl Braun (color)
1:18:15 --
EB in dirndl on Berghof terrace (same day as 57:41) (color)
Reel 3A
1:18:57 --
plane flight (color)
1:19:36 --
Herta Schneider with children (color)
1:19:55 --
Josef “Sepp” Dietrich (commander of Hitler’s LAH bodyguard unit) on
Berghof terrace, Dietrich with EB and with children, Ilse Braun (? – or
Sepp’s wife? - 21:15) (color)
1:21:18 --
trip to some town (B/W)
1:22:27 --
EB and Gretl Braun (?) at their Munich house (?) (color)
1:22:39 --
EB, Gerda Daranowski, Dr. Theo Morell, others on plane (B/W)
1:23:04 --
dogs on Berghof terrace (color)
1:25:47 --
EB, Otto Dietrich, Morells, others in train, Martin Bormann and Gretl
Braun at Berghof, dogs inside and outside, Fanny Braun, Dr. Hugo Blaschke (?);
Berghof mists (testing the smoke generator system for air defense ?), AH with
dogs on terrace (B/W)
1:27:51 --
group at Kehlsteinhaus and on Berghof terrace (color)
1:28:55 --
“Im Tiergarten von Berlin” – EB posing on a windy day (color)
1:29:15 --
Berghof terrace – Dr. Theo and Hanni Morell, Wilhelm Brückner, Otto
Dietrich (press chief), others; children play in washtub, Walter Hewel (color)
1:30:38 --
on a cruise - ice in a fjord (?)
1:30:51 --
AH with children, dogs (same as 1:25:47), bird in the sink (Berghof
bathroom ?) (B/W)
1:35:19 --
Berghof staircase – Sepp Dietrich, others (B/W)
1:35:55 --
skiing – Karl and Anni Brandt, EB (color)
1:38:58 --
SS General Hermann Fegelein marries Gretl Braun; Himmler, Bormann are
witnesses (B/W) (see Reel 5)
1:41:30 --
Fegelein wedding reception in Kehlsteinhaus (part) (B/W)
1:41:48 --
Herta Schneider and children at Berghof, Watzmann view from Gutshof
fields, Berghof front view (B/W)
1:42:12 --
EB with Uschi and Gitta Schneider at Mooslahnerkopf overlook, and
swimming at Königssee, Herta Schneider with husband Erwin (?) at Königssee
(B/W)
1:46:52 --
AH with Uschi and Gitta Schneider in Berghof (AH looks old ) (B/W)
1:48:52 --
rabbits with Schneider children at Berghof, children at Christmas, Erwin
Schneider (?), Herta and EB close-up (51:18), at inn in mountains, more of Herta
and family (husband was a Gebirgsjäger Oberleutnant) (B/W)
DVD DISC 2/3
Reel 3B
Start --
Herrnchiemsee (B/W)
0:32 --
Norway cruise (?) (B/W)
1:48 --
at travel agency, hat shop – Fanny Braun (color)
2:40 --
at the plane, at Hamburg (ship “Milwaukee”) – Braun family (B/W)
5:46 --
at Hamburg, on the cruise, passing the KdF cruise ship “Robert Ley”
(color)
12:36 --
in Norway – local people (B/W)
14:44 --
in Norway, geyser, Norwegian trachten clothing (color)
18:32 --
ceremony on ship, fjords, glaciers, sea ice, shipmates (color)
Reel 4
25:51 --
at airfield - Gen. ? arrives, honor guards salute, Gen. Erich von
Manstein meets him, reviews troops (Italians ?) (probably not actually an EB
film - this sequence does not appear on some DVDs) (B/W)
Note: The times for the rest of Disc
2 are shown twice - the first time is for a DVD set that omits the airfield
scene above, the time in parentheses is for a DVD set that contains these extra
10 minutes.
25:51 (35:57)
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at a port (Italy ?) – harbor, warships, buildings – on a cruise –
Fanny Braun (color)
28:50 (38:56) --
on the Autobahn (color)
29:04 (39:10) --
Herta Schneider and children at Berghof, Uschi plays with rabbits (color)
33:13 (43:19) --
boating at Königssee – Herta Schneider (color)
34:05 (44:11) --
children play at Berghof – Hotel Zum Türken in background, Uschi turns
somersaults, Uschi with adjutants, guards, dogs, Herta Schneider’s husband at
50:40 (color)
Reel 5
41:44 (51:50) --
“Ausflug zum Kehlstein” – drive to Kehlsteinhaus - visitors
clowning around (actors ?) (B/W)
44:26 (54:32) --
village fest – actors (?) in trachten costumes (B/W)
47:14 (57:20) --
EB and others at car, landscape, trees in spring, EB in dirndl (color)
48:57 (59:03) --
Kehlsteinhaus group from start of reel, at cafe (B/W)
49:54 (1:00:00) --
Hermann Fegelein marries Gretl Braun – main Kehlsteinhaus film (see
Reel 3A) (B/W)
57:26 (1:07:32) --
Hitler eats with children in Berghof, children with Christmas tree, AH
with children in Mooslahnerkopf Teehaus (?) (B/W)
1:02:12 (1:12:18) --
AH in Berghof with Walter Hewel, Julius Schaub, others (B/W)
1:04:16 (1:14:22) --
Mooslahnerkopf Teehaus walk in snow, EB and Gretl Braun, Berghof front
steps, skiing (B/W)
1:06:57 (1:17:03) --
some woman talks on phone, she and man practice “cut finger” trick,
guests and EB play with male German shepherd, Gretl Braun, Gerda Daranowski (?),
and guests clown with food and drink, Brauns and Morells as guests (B/W)
1:09:34 (1:19:40) --
guy clowns around with piano, Braun family, EB, Gretl and others party,
EB does a cabaret, others dressed up (Fasching? – some still photos also of
this) (B/W)
1:14:59 (1:25:05) --
Brauns outside the Munich (?) house, close-up of Gretl Braun and maid,
same guests as before, playing with dogs (male German shepherd – Basko?,
dachshund, Scottish terriers Negus and Stasi) (color)
1:18:42 (1:28:48) --
Fritz Braun smokes cigar, same guests clown around (color)
1:22:14 (1:32:20) --
sunbathing at beach – Braun family and guests – facial close-ups –
dogs play in water (color)
1:25:14 (1:35:20) --
guests clown at roadside (color)
1:26:04 (1:36:10) --
“Der Führer besucht seine Heimat am 12.VI.39” – “Das Grab der
Eltern in Leonding” – Hitler visits his Austrian home on 12 June 1939 – at
the grave of Hitler’s parents in Leonding/Linz (color)
1:26:29 (1:36:35) --
“Gut Hafeld” – driving by the Rauchergut in Hafeld (a Hitler
childhood home in Austria) (color)
1:26:58 (1:37:04) --
movie filming set (color)
1:27:44 (1:37:50) --
“Pause Mittagessen” – lunch break on the “film” set – EB, Gretl Braun,
Herta Schneider, actors in trachten costumes (color)
1:28:36 (1:38:42) --
“Erneuerung der Schminke” – touching up make-up on the film set (color)
1:29:56 (1:40:02) --
“’Siegfrieds’ Kraftprobe” – Siegfried's test of strength - film set (color)
1:30:14 (1:40:20) --
“Aussen-Aufnahmen” – outdoor film set in the mountains (Wilder Kaiser in
Austria ?) (color)
DVD DISC 3/3
Reel 6
Start --
loading up for trip (EB’s Munich house ?), at airfield, on plane –
Braun family (color)
4:14 --
trip to Italy – swimming, storm on waterfront, touring a volcano,
touring ruins, Florence, on the lake, Little Mermaid statue (color)
32:27 --
“Der laufende Berg” Aussenaufnahmen (“The Running Mountain”) –
winter mountain trip with Hanni Morell (color - poor)
34:06 --
on the plane – return to Obersalzberg – Julius Schaub, Otto Dietrich
(color)
36:14 --
AH with Martin Bormann and others on Berghof driveway and terrace (color)
37:25 --
guests on Berghof terrace – usual bunch (incl. Karl Brandt, Albert
Bormann, Hermann Esser, Albert Speer), AH greets the ladies – Gerda
Daranowski, Hanni Morell, Frau Esser and others; EB, Gretl Braun, Hermann Esser,
Adolf Wagner (color)
39:03 --
AH and Heinrich Hoffmann on the Berghof terrace, Morells, Martin Bormann,
ladies on terrace, Hoffmann, Dr. Karl Brandt, Gretl Braun, Adolf Wagner, Hermann
Esser clowns with Hoffmann (color)
40:10 --
Mooslahnerkopf Teehaus walk, Heinrich Hoffmann and others at overlook
41:28 --
Berghof terrace – ladies, Hansgeorg Schulze “Frettchen” (SS aide),
Adolf Wagner, Morells, back at Mooslahnerkopf overlook, children at Teehaus
(color)
43:14 --
EB leans over Mooslahnerkopf overlook (color)
Reel 7
44:01 --
“Wir gehen ‘Gassi’” – walking dogs in snow at EB’s Munich
house – Braun family and friends (with dachshund) (color)
44:52 --
walking dogs on lake beach – Morells with boxer, Gretl and EB look for
fish (color)
47:30 --
playing on lake ice with dogs (boxer), EB skating (color)
48:59 --
Gretl Braun with flowers – Gretl wears red print dress seen in
Kehlsteinhaus still photos (EB’s photo albums in NARA Still Pictures Branch) (color)
49:18 --
Braun family group goes for a walk, wades and plays with dog in stream
(color)
51:58 -- “Unser
Häuschen” (“Our Little House”) – EB’s and Gretl’s Munich house –
playing with dog and water hose (color)
55:04 --
“Rad’lverein” -- Braun family
group biking at Munich house (Wasserburgerstrasse 12) (color)
56:28 --
“Brand in Riem” – barn on fire in Riem (Munich suburb near EB’s house)
(color)
57:00 --
cruise to Norway (?) – EB on ship (color)
57:59 --
Hitler with Uschi Schneider at Berghof (color)
58:26 --
“Auf dem Berghof” – guests with children, AH with Uschi, EB with
rabbit (color)
1:01:02 --
Hitler with Albert Bormann, Baldur and Henriette von Schirach at the
Berghof, EB’s dogs, AH greets the ladies (including secretary Christa
Schroeder) (color)
1:01:30 --
AH with Heinrich Hoffmann at Berghof (color)
1:02:29 --
Berlin parade (color) (Hitler’s 50th birthday ?)
1:03:43 --
AH at Berghof – posed shots in brown jacket, climbing steps, AH with
Speer children (color)
1:05:00 --
visit of the Kalif al Houd, special envoy from the king of Saudi Arabia, to the Berghof,
17 June 1939 (color)
1:05:38 --
AH with group at Berghof (SS aide Hansgeorg Schulze in background)
(color)
1:05:57 --
EB skates on lake ice (see 47:30) (color)
1:06:21 --
“Im Zoo” – visit to zoo (color)
1:09:16 --
“Die Schule von Fischlham” – visit to Hitler’s boyhood school in
Austria – AH, Bormann, Dr. Morell, Heinrich Hoffmann (color)
1:11:14 --
AH watches dogs play on Berghof terrace (color)
1:12:23 --
AH with Sepp Dietrich on Berghof terrace, with Hermann Esser, Walter
Hewel, Dr. Morell, Heinrich Hoffmann (color)
1:17:21 --
EB with dog on Berghof terrace (color)
1:17:35 --
ladies go for a walk in the snow, Teehaus walk with actress Magda
Schneider (mother of actress Romy Schneider) (color)
1:18:34 --
EB on side terrace with dog, AH
Reel 8
1:19:20 --
on cruise ship, in Norway (color)
1:21:59 --
Norway trip – Braun family (B/W)
1:23:10 --
on cruise ship, Lapps with reindeer – Braun family and friends (color)
1:25:16 --
on glacier, in ice caves, on cruise ship – in pool, on deck, sports,
lobster is served (color)
1:33:54 --
party at cruise ship bar (B/W)
1:35:08 --
on cruise ship deck, Norwegian scenery (color)
1:38:28 --
sentry guarding cannon, cannon in battery (color)
Copyright © 2004, Geoffrey R. Walden
- all rights reserved.
(Additions
or corrections to this listing are welcome – contact the compiler at the
e-mail address below.)
NOTE:
The DVDs are NOT available from the National Archives, nor do I have any copies
for sale. You can order a copy from Noodlemakers@aol.com,
and from other sellers on eBay. There are several different DVDs of "Eva
Braun's Movies" - the complete set runs over five hours (some DVD sets do
not contain the entire film set).
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