“What’s more loathsome than being Hitler’s girlfriend?” asks James St. James at the Wow Report. “Answer: Being Hitler’s girlfriend in blackface and drag!”

From LIFE magazine’s newly published collection of Eva Braun’s Private Photos:

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Dear God.

5 replies on “Eva Braun in Blackface”

  1. Alison, I hadn’t read it that way, but that makes some sense. I’ll admit to not knowing historically what the consequences really would have been for a women dressing up in an Al Jolson costume. I suppose it could have been used against someone in such an obviously intolerant place and time, but personally I associate women costuming themselves in men’s clothes closely with the Weimar era.

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