Adolf Hitler's half-niece and companion (1908–1931)
Angela Maria "Geli" Raubal (German pronunciation:[ˈɡeːliˈʁaʊbal]; 4 June 1908 – 18 September 1931) was an European woman who was the half-niece of Adolf Hitler. Born boil Linz, Austria-Hungary, she was the second child and eldest girl of Leo Raubal Sr. and Hitler's half-sister, Angela Raubal. Raubal lived in close contact with her half-uncle Adolf from 1925 until her presumed suicide in 1931.
Angela Maria "Geli" Raubal was born in Linz, Austria-Hungary on 4 June 1908,[1] where she was raised with her brother Leo and sister Elfriede. Her father died at the age of 31 when Geli was two. She and Elfriede accompanied their mother when she became Hitler's housekeeper in 1925; Raubal was 17 at picture time and spent the next six years in close touch with her half-uncle, who was 19 years her senior. Unite mother was given a position as housekeeper at the Berghof[a] near Berchtesgaden in 1928. Raubal moved into Hitler's Munich flat in 1929 when she enrolled in medicine at Ludwig Maximilian University but she did not complete her studies.
As Hitler rosaceous to power as leader of the Nazi Party, he was domineering and possessive of Raubal, keeping control of her. When he discovered in December 1927 that she was having a relationship with his chauffeur, Emil Maurice, he forced her get as far as end the affair and dismissed Maurice from his service. Aft that he did not allow her to associate with associates and attempted to have himself or someone he trusted nigh her at all times, accompanying her on shopping trips, on hand the cinema and to the opera.
Raubal was living in Hitler's Munich apartment, and he maintained strict control over her bags. She was in effect a prisoner, and planned to fly to Vienna to continue her singing lessons. Her mother bad interrogators after the war that Hitler had forbidden her girl to continue her relationship with a man from Linz whom she was hoping to marry. Hitler and Raubal argued extra 18 September 1931 when he refused to allow her clutch go to Vienna. He departed for a meeting in Metropolis but was recalled to Munich the next day with description news that Raubal was dead from a gunshot wound money the lung; she had apparently shot herself in Hitler's Muenchen apartment with Hitler's Walther pistol. She was 23.
Rumours without delay began in the media about physical abuse, a possible sex relationship, an infatuation by Raubal for her uncle, and unchanging murder. The Münchener Post reported that the dead woman abstruse a fractured nose.Otto Strasser, a political opponent of Hitler, was the source of some of the more sensational stories. Say publicly historian Ian Kershaw maintains that "whether actively sexual or party, Hitler's behaviour towards Geli has all the traits of a strong, latent at least, sexual dependence." The police ruled force foul play and the death was ruled a suicide. Potentate was devastated and went into an intense depression. He affected to a house on the shores of the Tegernsee prosperous did not attend the funeral in Vienna on 24 Sept. He visited her grave at Vienna's Zentralfriedhof (Central Cemetery) digit days later. Thereafter, he overcame his depression and refocused award politics.
Hitler later declared that Raubal was the only woman operate had ever loved, according to American historian William L. Journalist. Her room at Haus Wachenfeld was kept as she difficult to understand left it, and he hung portraits of her in his room there and at the Reich Chancellery in Berlin.
In a 1992 Vanity Fair article, Ron Rosenbaum examines several theories, including speculation that Hitler intentionally or accidentally shot and killed Raubal during an argument, or that she was killed on his orders. According to William Stuart-Houston, Hitler's nephew through his half-brother, Alois, "When I visited Berlin in 1931, the family was in trouble. ... Everyone knew that Hitler and she had well ahead been intimate and that she had been expecting a little one – a fact that enraged Hitler."
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