Geli Raubal: Hitler’s Niece Found Dead in Mysterious Munich Scandal

World History: True Stories of the 20th Century · Apr 17, 2026 · 11m

Geli Raubal, Adolf Hitler’s niece, became the center of one of the most disturbing and mysterious scandals of the early Nazi era after her unexplained death in Munich. Before Adolf Hitler became one of history’s most destructive dictators, he was already hiding a dark secret—an obsessive, controlling, and ultimately tragic relationship with his own half-niece, Angela Maria “Geli” Raubal. Born in Linz in 1908, Geli entered Hitler’s life as a teenager when her mother became his housekeeper. What followed would become one of the most disturbing and mysterious stories of the early Nazi era…