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TIL Hitler's mistress, Eva Braun, showed no interest in politics, except in one notable episode. Learning that women's cosmetics and luxuries were to be banned owing to Germany's total war, she came to Hitler in 'high indignation,' leading to a halt in production without an outright ban.

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