Hitler's Niece

<p><strong>A textured picture of Hitler's histrionic personality and his insane mission for glory presaging the genocide to come in the cold-blooded obliteration of one young woman. -- <em>Publishers Weekly</em></strong></p><p><em>Hitler's Niece</em> tells the story of the intense and disturbing relationship between Adolf Hitler and the daughter of his only half-sister Angela a drama that evolves against the backdrop of Hitler's rise to prominence and power from particularly inauspicious beginnings. The story follows Geli from her birth in Linz Austria through the years in Berchtesgaden and Munich to her tragic death in 1932 in Hitler's apartment in Munich. Through the eyes of a favorite niece who has been all but lost to history we see the frightening rise in prestige and political power of a vain vulgar sinister man who thrived on cruelty and hate and would stop at nothing to keep the horror of his inner life hidden from the world.</p>