Chapter 2: 1938–1939

Overview

Since 1931, every 18th of September, Hitler would place a bouquet of flowers on the grave of his niece Geli, she was his great love of youth and although the relationship had ended amidst strong arguments because of Geli's desire to move to Vienna to study singing, the Nazi leader never forgot her. The cause of her tragic death was never known with certainty although police investigations pointed to suicide. Hitler considered the beauty of women as a work of art of nature and did not hide his misogyny when he said, the greater the man, the more insignificant his wife should be, perhaps for this reason he did not usually appear in public with Eva Braun.