Eva Braun

Obersalzberg, January 2

Dear Madam,

Thank you very much for your lovely Christmas present. I was very happy to get it.

We have been at the Berghof since the first day of Christmas and are hard at work skiing. Charlie (Stark) has already broken his foot and has to stay in bed for 3 weeks. Still, we have not stopped skiing, to the Fuhrer’s horror; he prophesies the same fate for all of us.

Has little Muck settled in? I hope he is not disgracing his worthy parents.

I wish you a very good New Year, madam, and your husband as well.

Best regards!

Yours

Eva Braun

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Translator’s note: “Mountain” is Berg in German, a pun on “Berghof” (“mountain estate”).

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Literally, “living space.” This concept of Hitler’s was a major component in the Nazi ideology, referring to the German population’s need for land and raw materials and the availability of this land in the east after the Slavic peoples were killed or deported.