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Geli Raubal was born on the 4th of June 1908 in Linz then part of Austria-Hungary. Her father, Leo Raubal was a tax officer and her mother, Angela, was a half-sister of Adolf Hitler. Geli had 2 siblings; Leo, who was 2 years older and Elfriede, who was 2 years younger than her.
When Geli was only two years old, her father died at the age of 31. The family moved to Vienna when during the World War I her mother Angela worked as a cook at the Jewish academic institute. Her mother was a tall, rustic and energetic woman and with a truncheon in her hand she would rigorously defend Jewish students against attacks by so-called ‘Aryan’ fellow students.
Years later Geli attended secondary school in Linz, where she was one of the first girls to graduate in 1927. 4 years earlier in 1923, Adolf Hitler was appointed Geli’s custodian, but it was not until 1924 that she met him for the first time during a visit to Landsberg Prison where he was serving his sentence for his involvement in the Beer Hall Putsch which took place on 8-9 November 1923 in Munich when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party led a coalition group in an attempt to overthrow the German government. It was at Landsberg Prison in Bavaria, where Hitler started working on his autobiographical manifesto “Mein Kampf” meaning “My struggle” where he outlined his beliefs, political views, and plans for Germany.
Geli and her sister Elfriede accompanied their mother when she became Hitler's housekeeper in 1925. Geli was then 17 years old and for the next six years she would remain in close contact with her half-uncle Adolf Hitler, who was 19 years her senior. Hitler was immediately taken with Geli, who was described as an “unusual beauty” and from the moment she arrived, he never let her out of his sight.
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