Hitler by Ernst Hanfstaengl

Author:Ernst Hanfstaengl [Hanfstaengl, Ernst]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2011-08-01T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER IX

GELI RAUBAL

Hitler takes a luxury flat-The amours of his niece-Pornographic drawings and blackmail — Soprano without talent — The unwilling sub-tenant – Suicide – Corpse without inquest – Hara-kiri and a pregnancy – The impotent Herostratus.

WITH THE advent of money from the Ruhr, Hitler had at long last given up his little flat in the Thierschstrasse and abandoned his pretension of being the leader of a working-class party. Some time before the end of 1929 he had moved into a handsome nine-roomed apartment at 16 Prinz Regentenplatz, in one of the most expensive parts of the city. He took with him Frau Reichert, his landlady in the Thierschstrasse, together with her mother, Frau Dachs. He then took into his employment as manservant a former non-commissioned officer named Winter, who had been the valet of General von Epp. In due course Winter married the lady’s maid of Countess Toerring, and the pair became the principal servants in the flat. Angela Raubal, the half-sister Hitler had brought from Vienna, remained in charge of his house at Berchtesgaden.

Her daughter Geli was by then a buxom young woman of twenty-one. A couple of years earlier she had taken a bed-sitting-room in Munich not far from Hitler’s old flat, and had, I think, made a pretence of starting some course of study at the university. She completed one aspect of her education pretty quickly, and was soon having an affair with Emil Maurice, Hitler’s driver. Nor did she keep her sentiments exclusive. Maurice was furious one day to find her flagrante delicto with a student, whom he threw out of the room neck and crop.

Hitler came to hear of this liaison, but at first his reaction did not seem to go beyond anger with Maurice. In his usual fashion he did not sack him directly, the man was an old faithful Party hack, but he gradually started to freeze him out, fell behind in paying his wages, and in the end Maurice himself made the break. There was, I believe, a minor lawsuit about money, and his job was taken over by Julius Schreck.

Geli went to live with the Bruckmanns for a while to keep her out of temptation’s way, but as soon as Hitler moved into his new apartment, she was given a room there. She and her mother were, of course, completely dependent on Hitler, but what particular combination of arguments her uncle used to bend her to his will, presumably with the tacit acquiescence of his half-sister, we shall probably never know. Whether he assumed that a young woman who was already no saint might be brought fairly easily to submit to his peculiar tastes, or whether in fact she was the one woman in his life who went some way towards curing his impotence and half making a man out of him, again we shall never know with certainty. On the evidence available I incline to the former view. What is certain is that the services she was prepared to render had the effect of making him behave like a man in love.

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