The Private Film Archive of Eva Braun-Hitler - Reel 5

Source: US National Archives - https://catalog.archives.gov/id/43461

 

Reel 5

 

00:06 – „Ausflug zum Kehlstein” – drive to Kehlsteinhaus - actors visit the Kehlsteinhaus (B/W).

 

02:08 – village festival (film set?) - actors (?) in trachten costumes shop and have lunch, then clown around on stage, Braun women visit, actors at a lake (the film was „Der laufende Berg“ (1941), and the actors seen here probably include some of the following: Hansi Knoteck, Paul Richter, Maria Andergast, Fritz Kampers, Gustl Gstettenbaur, Beppo Brem, and Martin Schmidhofer) (B/W).

 

04:29 – EB and others at car, landscape, trees in spring, EB in dirndl, actors at a picnic (color).

 

05:55 – Kehlsteinhaus actors group from start of reel, at a cafe (B/W).

 

06:43 – Hermann Fegelein marries Gretl Braun in Salzburg, 3 June 1944 – then the main Kehlsteinhaus wedding reception film, also scenes filmed in Martin Bormann’s house (see Reel 3A). The following can be seen: Fegelein and Gretl, EB, Bormann and his wife Gerda (Fegelein shakes hands with Gerda Bormann), Herta Schneider with her daughters Uschi (dressed as an angel) and Gitta (Uschi recites), Fanny, Fritz, and Ilse Braun, Georg Alexander, Heini Handschuhmacher, cooks in the Kehlsteinhaus, reception in the Kehlsteinhaus great room and Scharitzkehl room, the couple pose with Hitler in the Berghof great room (Hitler did not attend the Kehlsteinhaus reception) (B/W).

 

12:55 – Hitler eats with children in Berghof (Haus Wachenfeld), children and Berghof staff with Christmas tree (see end of Reel 3A - the staff seen include Herbert Döhring), AH with children (Goebbels ?) in Mooslahnerkopf Teehaus (?) (B/W).

 

16:02 – AH in Berghof with Otto Dietrich (?), Walter Hewel, Karl Bodenschatz (?), Nicolaus von Below (?), Julius Schaub, Martin Bormann, Rudolf Schmundt (?), others, Berghof ladies (includes Anni Brandt, Margarete Speer, Gretl Braun) (B/W).

 

17:00 – Mooslahnerkopf Teehaus (Hitler with Schaub - cuts to shot of Hitler in the Berghof Wintergarten), Teehaus walk in snow, EB and Gretl Braun, Berghof front steps (Berghof 1938 extension and Hotel zum Türken seen in background), Hitler at the Mooslahnerkopf overlook, Hanni Morell in a sleigh, skiing (B/W).

 

19:05 – woman talks on phone, she and man practice „cut finger” trick (the woman may be the actress Maria Andergast), guests and EB play with male German shepherd, Gretl Braun, Ilse Braun (?), Fanny and Fritz Braun and guests clown with food and drink, Brauns and Morells as guests (B/W).

 

20:56 – man 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, also color portrait photos of EB taken on this occasion) (B/W).

 

24:50 – 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/or Stasi) (color).

 

27:27 – Fritz Braun smokes cigar, same guests socialize and clown around (color).

 

30:02 – sunbathing at beach – Braun family and guests – facial close-ups – dogs play in water (color).

 

32:07 – shot of the Reiteralpe mountains from the Berghof (32:11) – guests clown at roadside (color).

 

32:47 – „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).

 

33:03 – „Gut Hafeld” – driving by the Rauchergut in Hafeld (a Hitler childhood home in Austria) (color).

 

33:25 – movie filming set (The film was „Der laufende Berg,“ produced for German cinema in 1941, starring Hansi Knoteck, Paul Richter, Maria Andergast, Fritz Kampers, Gustl Gstettenbaur, Beppo Brem, Martin Schmidhofer, and others (color).

 

33:59 – „Pause Mittagessen” – lunch break on the film set – EB, Gretl Braun, Herta Schneider, actors in trachten costumes (color).

 

34:36 – „Erneuerung der Schminke” – touching up make-up on the film set, Gretl Braun and actors laugh, actors pose with Herta Schneider, Gretl, and EB (color).

 

35:33 – „ ‘Siegfrieds’ Kraftprobe” – ‘Siegfried’s’ test of strength - film set (color).

 

35:46 – „Aussen-Aufnahmen” – outdoor film set in the mountains, actors, landslide (part of the film) (color).