Vacation footage from hell — Hitler's girlfriend had a camera and zero shame.
Notable for providing a bucolic, personal view of high-ranking Nazis. Eva Braun was the longtime romantic companion to Adolf Hitler, as well as a photographer and amateur filmmaker. Her 8mm Agfacolor-stock home movies, recorded at her leisure, were seized by the US Army in 1945. They were subsequently assembled into 8 reels, from 28 reels of original camera negatives. The US National Archives received this 8-reel film in 1947, and in 2012 began the digital restoration process.
Editing
Eight reels curated from twenty-eight — what's missing haunts you.
Production
Agfacolor stock gives Nazi leisure an eerie commercial gloss.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
These films were rarely screened publicly until the 2012 restoration, kept buried precisely because their ordinariness is more disturbing than overt Nazi propaganda.
Braun's camera technique improved dramatically over the years — by 1943 she was capturing tracking shots of Hitler's entourage with casual expertise.
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