Brutal Death of Geli Raubal - Adolf Hitler’s Niece whom the Nazi Führer Forced into his Lover

Geli Raubal was born on the 4th of June 1908 in Linz then part of Austria-Hungary. Her father, Leo Raubal was a tax officer and her mother, Angela, was a half-sister of Adolf Hitler. Geli had 2 siblings; Leo, who was 2 years older and Elfriede, who was 2 years younger than her. When Geli was only two years old, her father died at the age of 31. The family moved to Vienna when during the World War I her mother Angela worked as a cook at the Jewish academic institute. Her mother was a tall, rustic and energetic woman and with a truncheon in her hand she would rigorously defend Jewish students against attacks by so-called ‘Aryan’ fellow students. Years later Geli attended secondary school in Linz, where she was one of the first girls to graduate in 1927. 4 years earlier in 1923, Adolf Hitler was appointed Geli’s custodian, but it was not until 1924 that she met him for the first time during a visit to Landsberg Prison where he was serving his sentence for his involvement in the Beer Hall Putsch