Did Eva Braun have any relevant impact on WW2 and Nazi Germany?

The only thing usually said about Eva Braun in history books and articles is that she committed suicide alongside Hitler after they married in his bunker. Besides that it’s hard to think of any other details about her life besides that she was Hitler’s long time mistress.

Did Eva Braun have any noteworthy impact on the Third Reich and the war in Europe?

If she never existed and Hitler remained single would this have any significant effect on history?
 
By all accounts I have read she was a complete bimbo. No one of importance took her at all seriously. She might have even been mildly mentally retarded from what I have read.
 
From what I remember, Eva Braun wasn't allowed to even attend meetings between Hitler and his cronies, and also was never officially part of the Nazi Party. So no, Eva Braun played no meaningful part on history really, Hitler never really took interest in her until after his niece Geli Raubal committed suicide in 1931. By that point, it's too late to change Hitler meaningfully, he was going to start WW2 with or without her. All she did was mostly take photographs of Hitler, post home videos at the Berchtesgaden, and that's it her life was very sheltered.

And Hitler remaining single..well as far as the world was concerned, officially Hitler was single until he married her one day before committing suicide. Women didn't play a huge part in the Nazi government.
 
No. She was very much a kept woman and whatever affection Hitler had for her was of secondary importance to his life's mission of restoring Germany to greatness.

Hitler was extremely conscious of his public image so he preferred to publicly remain a bachelor to underscore his devotion to the German volk while keeping Eva around for companionship and sex.
 
Eva Braun hadn't any role in WW2. Even inner circle of Nazi party didn't know her much and many assumed her being just one of Hitler's assistants. And with my knowlege she wasn't very smart and respected. She seems has been totally out of reality. So not any influence to Hitler or events during WW2.
 
When were they supposed to have had that? Hitler seemed to avoid social Contact alltogether 39-45

She became his mistress around 1934 so they had plenty of time together before the war and during the war she frequently traveled with his entourage since her sister was married to an SS officer that was a member of his inner circle.

Most likely they were intimate during his visits to Berchtesgaden but she also had her own apartment at the Reich Chancellery.
 
Women didn't play a huge part in the Nazi government.

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Leni Riefenstahl would disagree.
 
I always kind of wondered about that aspect of things. I'm at least one-third convinced that Hitler died a virgin.
Nah, the truth is more banal than that: Adolf Hitler had an active and healthy sex life with Eva Braun.

What about the urban legend that Hitler had only one ball, after losing it to a stray machine-gun bullet in WWI? Any truth to that? Because I doubt Hitler would've been willing to have sex if there was the risk of embarrassment over only having one ballsack.
 

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What about the urban legend that Hitler had only one ball, after losing it to a stray machine-gun bullet in WWI? Any truth to that? Because I doubt Hitler would've been willing to have sex if there was the risk of embarrassment over only having one ballsack.

Just that, an urban legend. A load of nonsense made up during the war to ridicule Hitler.

Leni Riefenstahl would disagree.

Hardly playing a huge part in the government. She made some propaganda films and possibly bumped uglies with Adolf. It wasn’t like she attended policy meetings at the Eagle’s Nest.
 
Nope. Just Hitler's companion, nothing else really. Her existence wasn't even known by people outside of Hitler's Inner Circle at the time.
 
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To be honest, trying to ridicule Hitler because he supposedly had lost a testicle in the war is a disservice to the soldiers that had to actually endure this reality.
 
I think the biggest impact she had was she was the one filming Hitler's home movies at Berchestgarden. Other than that, she had no impact whatsoever.
 
The one time and only time I have heard that she had an impact on policy was that supposedly she yelled at Hitler after he cut production for women's cosmetics, which convinced him to keep it going.
 
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