12 Facts About Geli Raubal

Geli Raubal lived in close contact with her half-uncle Adolf from 1925 until her presumed suicide in 1931.

Angela Maria "Geli" Raubal was born in Linz, Austria-Hungary on 4 June 1908, where she was raised with her brother Leo and sister Elfriede.

Geli Raubal's father died at the age of 31 when Geli was two.

Geli Raubal's mother was given a position as housekeeper at the Berghof near Berchtesgaden in 1928.

Geli Raubal moved into Hitler's Munich apartment in 1929 when she enrolled in medicine at Ludwig Maximilian University but she did not complete her studies.

Geli Raubal was living in Hitler's Munich apartment, and he maintained strict control over her actions.

Geli Raubal was in effect a prisoner, and planned to escape to Vienna to continue her singing lessons.

Geli Raubal's mother told interrogators after the war that Hitler had forbidden her daughter to continue her relationship with a man from Linz whom she was hoping to marry.

Hitler and Geli Raubal argued on 18 September 1931 when he refused to allow her to go to Vienna.

Geli Raubal departed for a meeting in Nuremberg but was recalled to Munich the next day with the news that Raubal was dead from a gunshot wound to the lung; she had apparently shot herself in Hitler's Munich apartment with Hitler's Walther pistol.

Geli Raubal visited her grave at Vienna's Zentralfriedhof two days later.

Hitler later declared that Raubal was the only woman he had ever loved, according to American historian William L Shirer.