Angleica "Geli" Raubal was born in Austria-Hungary in 1908. Her mother got work as Adolf Hitler's housekeeper in 1925. Geli was actually the half-niece of Adolf Hitler, and was seventeen years old when her mother first went to work for him. She remained in close proximity to her half-uncle, Hitler, for the rest of her life. In fact, she moved into his apartment when she began studying medicine, but she did not finish school. Hitler began being more controlling over her as his power was growing. I think that was partly because he enjoyed having control over everyone and everything, and partly because he had a sordid interest in her. He went absolutely mad whenever he discovered she had a relationship with his driver, Emil Maurice. He forced them to end the relationship, stopped allowing her to have friends, and fired the driver. He made someone he trusted or he himself followed her around any time she left the apartment. She was not allowed to continue singing or anything else that she loved to do.

After one particular row in 1931, supposedly over her wanting to have a relationship with a boy from her hometown and continuing her singing career, she shot herself with Hitler's pistol. She was only twenty three years old when she died. There are rumors that he killed her, which is possible. She also could have possibly killed herself, and I wouldn't blame her at all, because that is no way to live. Unfortunately, anything she wrote was destroyed. He had total control over everyone and everything, so who is to say that a cover up of some kind did not happen. There were rumors that he had a very brutal and bizarre sexual relationship with her, which is terrible and gross if true. There were also rumors that he was physically abusive, which he probably was, but he was certainly emotionally and mentally abusive to her. He did not attend her funeral, as he was too upset. He kept pictures of her in his offices and kept her room as she had left it. He also claimed she was the only woman he ever loved.

This book was interesting, but it was really full of speculation. There aren't a lot of hard facts about their relationship, so we can only speculate on it. It wasn't a boring read by any means, just presented as 100% factual, and I do not believe it to be. How could anyone know what her thoughts and feelings and her side of the story is when everything about her was destroyed or disappeared? What is factual is that her life was cut tragically short by the unfortunate way she was sucked into Hitler's black hole.