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Good Catholic girl has passionate relationship with Jewish Dr. Marx
Never marries. He leaves for the USA
Ilse Braun, the eldest of three daughters of Friedrich Braun (1879-1964) and Franziska Kronberger (1885-1976), was born in Simbach, Germany, in 1909. Her father was a master craftsman. Her sisters were Eva Braun and Gretl Braun.
In 1929 she went to work as a receptionist for Dr. Martin Levy Marx, a Jewish doctor. In 1932 her younger sister, Eva, began seeing Adolf Hitler. Ilse later wrote: "We Braun girls were not very communicative when it came to the details of our private lives. Even among ourselves, in the sanctum of our bedroom, we rarely spoke about our relations with men. There was a very strong barrier of puritanism, perhaps because of our convert education, perhaps because of the Victorian ideas of our parents. I knew that Eva sometimes went out with Hitler, but I knew nothing about the state of her feelings."
Eva was extremely jealous of Hitler's other girlfriends and in 1932 she also attempted suicide by shooting herself in the neck. Doctors managed to save her life, and after this incident Hitler seemed to become more attached to Eva. The problem returned and Hitler began seeing a great deal of Renate Müller, Unity Mitford and Stephanie von Hohenlohe. On her twenty-third birthday, Eva Braun again tried to kill herself. Ilse Braun suspected that her sister had to some extent staged this suicide. Eva had taken only twenty tablets of vanodorm, an amount that had little chance of killing her.
Hitler was shocked and turned up at her home asking for forgiveness. She recorded in her diary on 18th February, 1935, that he promised to buy her a house: "Dear God, please let them come true and let it happen in the near future… I am infinitely happy that he loves me so much and I pray that it may always remain so. I never want it to be my fault if one day he should cease to love me." However, in her diary on 28th May she complains: "Is this the mad love he promised me, when he doesn't send me a single comforting line in three months?"
Ilse Braun did not meet Adolf Hitler during this period. According to Heinz Linge, the reason for this was Ilse's Jewish employer: "Ilse Braun, her eldest sister, a very intelligent journalist, was friendly with a Jewish doctor and kept well away from the circle in which Eva found herself." After the passing of the Nuremberg Laws Ilse faced the possibility of being arrested and charged with "defiling the race".
Eva Braun suggested that Ilse went to work for Dr. Theodor Morell but she refused the offer. Nerin E. Gun, the author of Eva Braun: Hitler's Mistress (1969), has pointed out: "Eva wrote to her sister proposing that she should work for the wonder doctor. Ilse had been obliged to leave Dr. Marx by this time, at his request. The Jewish doctor realised that the association of the sister of the Führer's mistress with a Jew could only cause trouble for the Brauns, while he himself ran the risk of being sent to a concentration camp, this being a convenient way of disposing of those whose discretion was not to be trusted. Ilse greatly regretted his decision that they should separate." After leaving Marx she went to work for Albert Speer.
In 1939 Ilse Braun meet Adolf Hitler for the first time: "Hitler came towards me, took my hand, and raised it to his lips. His eyes were sky-blue, intense in their gaze, striking but always fixed, immobile. I was slightly disappointed, for I had imagined a more imposing man, more like the portraits that were displayed everywhere. He was always gesticulating dramatically with his hand. I examined his hands. They were very white, sensitive like those of a musician, not very masculine, but attractive…. There was no dancing. Hitler detested and consequently banned this form of amusement."
After leaving Speer's department she went to work for the right-wing newspaper, Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. Ilse Braun married Dr. Fucke-Michaels in 1942. The couple moved to Breslau, where she was employed by the Schlesische Zeitung.
On 28th April, 1945, Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun. That night Hitler tested out a cyanide pill on his pet Alsatian dog, Blondi. Braun agreed to commit suicide with him. She could have become rich by writing her memoirs but she preferred not to live without Hitler. The Soviet troops were now only 300 yards away from Hitler's underground bunker. On 30th April Hitler and Eva Braun went into a private room and took cyanide tablets. Hitler also shot himself in the head. The bodies were then cremated and his ashes were hidden in the Chancellery grounds. Albert Speer commented: "Eva's love for him, her loyalty, were absolute - as she proved unmistakably at the end."
Ilse Braun died of cancer in Munich in 1979.