Real Wives of Dictators | Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler's Wife

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

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Society, Sex, Scandal, Education, History

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🗓️ 14 March 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

What was life like as Adolf Hitler's other half?

Although their marriage came (very) late in their lives, Eva Braun was with Hitler from the earlier days in his political career, and was a confidant to him through the rise (and fall) of the Nazi Party.

How complicit was she in the evil ideologies Hitler set out? Was she in any way a victim? And what was it like to be part of the inner circle?

Joining Kate in the second episode of our limited series, Real Wives of Dictators, is Clare Mulley, historian and author of books including The Women Who Flew For Hitler, and recently, Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka.

This episode was edited and produced by Stuart Beckwith. The senior producer was Charlotte Long.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm your host, Kate Lister.
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0:24.5	Hello, my lovely betwixters.
0:26.3	It's me, Kate Lister.
0:27.7	I am me, you are you, and this is Betwixt the Sheets.
0:30.5	But before we can keep going together, I have to tell you,
0:33.4	this is an adult podcast, spoken by adults,
0:34.9	to other adults, about to dulty things,
0:36.1	and an adulty way occurring a range of adult subjects and you should be an adult too.
0:39.0	And if you've been listening to this show for long enough now, you must know the drill by now.
0:42.9	For any newbies, if you're a sensitive position, just bugger off now.
0:46.7	We don't need you around here.
0:48.0	Right, on with the show.
0:58.1	They say that behind every great man, there's a great woman.
1:00.5	I've never really believed that.
1:02.2	But what about evil men?
1:05.0	Are there crap and evil women behind them too?
1:10.1	And whilst it's the men in these horror stories that seem to get the most attention, in this brand new mini-series,
1:12.7	we are exploring the lives of four of the wives of some of history's most bloody and notorious dictators.
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