Hitler and Geli

London England: Bloomsbury, 1997. Hardback. First Edition. Hitler & Geli. Ex-library with ex-library markings. Few people know about the affair Adolf Hitler had with his niece, Geli Raubal. It started in 1927, when he was thirty-eight and she was nineteen. Already leader of the National Socialist German Workers' party, he had been imprisoned after the unsuccessful putsch of 1923, realeased at the end of 1924 and had been banned from speaking in public. It was then that he decided to rent a house in Obersalzberg, a small alpine village close to the Austrian border. Geli came to live with him there, together with her mother, Angela Raubal, his widowed half-sister, but the ban was lifted before the Raubals moved in. Hitler could relax with his niece as he never had before with anyone else, and enjoyed her constant availability. He asdored her and they could talk to each other uninhibitedly. The couple shared a strangely intense, passionate relationship, but it was always dogged by Hitler's intolerance, his chauvinistic attitude to womanhood and his possessive jealousy. later the weakening of the bond between Hitler and Geli coincided with the phenomenal rise in the popularity of the Nazis. On 14 September, nearly six and a half million people voted for the party that was, by then, virtually Hitler's personal possession. he had achieved unchallenged supremacy as lead, and idiolisation by his public lessened his need to idiolise Geli. His tenderness became twisted and his behaviour even more opprsseive. In 1931, aged twenty-three, Geli Raubal was found dead in the Munich flat she shared with Hitler, his revolver on the floor and an unfinished letter on the table. Hitler was shattered by his niece's death, and for the rest of his life couldn't speak of her without becoming emotional. Illustrated. 240 pp. Plastic protective covering. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.). First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo. Hardback.