Hitler demonstrates his popularity with the women of Germany in 1943. Hitler refused to marry while Führer because he felt it would distract him from what he saw as his destiny, i.e., leading the Nazi Party and Germany to greatness. Hitler's chauffeur, meanwhile, called the Führer's longtime girlfriend, Eva Braun "the unhappiest woman in Germany." Braun and Hitler did finally marry in a bunker under Berlin in 1945 as the Reich was collapsing and the Allies were advancing—she was 33, he was 56—but two days later they were both dead by suicide.