The Private Film Archive of Eva Braun-Hitler - Reel 3A

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

 

Reel 3A

 

00:06 – plane flight (color).

 

00:39 – Herta Schneider with children (color).

 

00:55 – Josef „Sepp” Dietrich (commander of Hitler’s LAH bodyguard unit) on Berghof terrace, Dietrich with Gretl Braun and children, Ilse Braun (?) (color).

 

02:05 – trip to some town, with Fachwerk (half-timbered) buildings, EB in a tree, group including Gretl, Fanny, and Fritz Braun (B/W).

 

03:04 – EB and Gretl Braun (?) at their Munich house (?) (color).

 

03:14 – EB, Gerda Daranowski, Dr. Theo Morell, others on plane (B/W).

 

03:34 – dogs on Berghof terrace, with terrier puppies (of Negus or Stasi?), view of Untersberg mountains (color).

 

05:43 – 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 screen generator system for air defense), AH with dogs on terrace (notice the camouflage netting hanging off the Berghof terrace walls during these smoke screen test views) (B/W).

 

06:38 – group of officers and civilians at Kehlsteinhaus and on Berghof terrace, Fanny Braun, housecat (color).

 

08:10 – „Im Tiergarten von Berlin” – The scene immediately following this title board does not match - the scene shows Margarete Speer in Italy, with the wind blowing her skirt up (color).

 

08:25 – Berghof terrace – Dr. Theo and Hanni Morell, Wilhelm Brückner, Otto Dietrich (press chief), others; children play in washtub, Dr. Karl Brandt and unknown couple, Walter Hewel (color).

 

09:29 – on a cruise - ice in a fjord (?).

 

09:39 – at the Berghof - AH with children, puppies play in the Berghof (same as 05:43), bird in the sink (Berghof bathroom ?) (B/W).

 

13:02 – Berghof staircase – Sepp Dietrich, Otto Dietrich (?) and others (Karl Wolff (?) (B/W).
 

13:30 – skiing – Karl and Anni Brandt, EB (note that the turn markers are swastika flags); SS adjutants skiing - includes Otto Günsche, Hans-Georg Schulze, Hans Pfeiffer, Gretl Braun and EB (color).

 

15:57 – SS General Hermann Fegelein marries Gretl Braun, 3 June 1944; Himmler, Bormann are witnesses (B/W). (see Reel 5).

 

17:48 – Fegelein wedding reception in Kehlsteinhaus (part) (B/W).

 

18:13 – Herta Schneider and children at Berghof, Watzmann view from Gutshof fields, Berghof front view (B/W).

 

19:07 – EB with Uschi and Gitta Schneider at Mooslahnerkopf overlook, and swimming at Königssee, Herta Schneider with husband Erwin at Königssee (B/W).

 

12:27 – AH with Uschi and Gitta Schneider in Berghof (AH looks old ) (B/W).

 

23:57 – Schneider children with rabbits at the Berghof, children in the Berghof at Christmas, Erwin Schneider (?), Herta and EB close-up (25:46), at inn in mountains, more of Herta and family (Erwin Schneider was a Gebirgsjäger Oberleutnant), EB and Herta kiss and hug (B/W).