Hitler & Geli
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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Behind the thunderous machinery of Nazi ideology lay a private obsession that haunted Adolf Hitler until his dying day — his tortured, all-consuming relationship with his young niece, Geli Raubal. Ronald Hayman's Hitler & Geli chronicles the deeply disturbing bond between one of history's most monstrous dictators and the vivacious young woman he kept under a suffocating, possessive grip, culminating in her mysterious death in 1931 — a death that sent shockwaves through the Nazi inner circle and left questions that have never been fully answered. Hayman, a prolific and incisive biographer, brings his formidable psychological acuity to bear on this dark episode, arguing that the Geli affair was not merely a footnote to Hitler's rise but a defining crucible that shaped the man and the monster. Drawing on diaries, letters, and survivor testimonies, the narrative uncovers the volatile interplay of control, desire, and destruction at the heart of the Third Reich's origins. For anyone who believes they understand Hitler, this unsettling portrait of the private man will demand a reckoning.
Author: Ronald Hayman
Format: Paperback
Published: 1997, Bloomsbury
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Behind the thunderous machinery of Nazi ideology lay a private obsession that haunted Adolf Hitler until his dying day — his tortured, all-consuming relationship with his young niece, Geli Raubal. Ronald Hayman's Hitler & Geli chronicles the deeply disturbing bond between one of history's most monstrous dictators and the vivacious young woman he kept under a suffocating, possessive grip, culminating in her mysterious death in 1931 — a death that sent shockwaves through the Nazi inner circle and left questions that have never been fully answered. Hayman, a prolific and incisive biographer, brings his formidable psychological acuity to bear on this dark episode, arguing that the Geli affair was not merely a footnote to Hitler's rise but a defining crucible that shaped the man and the monster. Drawing on diaries, letters, and survivor testimonies, the narrative uncovers the volatile interplay of control, desire, and destruction at the heart of the Third Reich's origins. For anyone who believes they understand Hitler, this unsettling portrait of the private man will demand a reckoning.