Angela Maria "Geli" Raubal (1908–1931) was the daughter of Adolf Hitler's half-sister, Angela Raubal, thus being his half-niece. Born in Linz, Austria-Hungary, she lived in close contact with her uncle from 1925 until her death, presumably by suicide, in 1931. When Geli was a toddler of two her father died at the early age of 31. After some time her widowed mother, Angela Raubal, became the housekeeper of her half-brother, Adolf Hitler, and she brought her 3 young children with her: Geli,
Elfriede Hochegger and Leo Raubal.
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Hitler with his two half-nieces, Geli and Elfriede
At that time Geli, a pretty and charming, young girl of 17, enrolled in medicine, while living in her uncle's apartment in Munich. However, she never completed her education as a physician, and one gets the impression that the next six years of her life was spent in some sort of emotional and fysical captivity. There are many theories and rumours about her relationship with her uncle who was 19 years her senior and a very powerful man. He was extremely possessive of his half-niece and was known to domineer and suppress her, showing a fierce jealousy of the men who admired her. When he found out that she had a relationship with his chauffeur he dismissed the young man. After putting an end to their affair he prevented her from forming new relationships with other men, and he saw to it that she was close to him or someone he trusted at all times.
After the war her mother said that Geli had hopes of marrying a man from Linz, but that Hitler had forbidden her to see him. After leaving her medicine studies she also wanted to go to Vienna to start singing lessons, but that too was forbidden by her uncle. These plans - or dreams - of hers was something she and Hitler had argued about before he departed for a meeting in Nuremberg on 18th September, 1931 while she stayed in Munich. While he was away the young woman of 23 years died from a gunshot wound to her chest. It appeared that she had shot herself with his Walther pistol, but her untimely death gave rise to many rumours and insinuations.
The media broadcasted many unpleasant rumours, including allegations of physical and sexual abuse, a tempestuous love affair or an infatuation of the young woman for her uncle. Also there were rumours of murder as she obviously had been unfaithful to him when she saw other men. Some of the more saucy stories were broadcasted by one of Hitler's political opponents, Otto Strasser. The obvious possesiveness of Hitler towards Geli indicates that he had very strong feelings of a sexual nature for his half-niece, and it seems she had told several of her friends that she was disgusted by "something perverted he had asked/demanded her to do".
Geli and her mother
As to the cause of her death the investigations by the police not surprisingly ruled out foul play and it was deemed suicide, not murder. No matter what the cause of death of Geli was it sent her uncle into a deep depression and he decided not to attend her funeral in Vienna, but later on he visited her grave several times. He is reputed to have declared her to have been the love of his life. Her room was kept as it was and he was said to worship his portraits of her and always kept them close by.
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