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This much is true: Hitler was obsessed with his young niece, Geli Raubal. On 19th September, 1931, two years before he came to power, Geli was found dead of a gunshot wound in Hitler's apartment in an exclusive area of Munich. Her death was ruled a suicide, but the suspicion of murder remained long after she had been laid to rest. In 1971, Annie Pohlmann, a young American student, arrives in Germany to interview retired detective Fritz Stecher, who headed the original investigation. She gets more than she bargained for when Stecher reveals the whole story of a case that not only nearly kills him, but almost changed the course of history.

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In Hitler's Angel, author Kris Rusch gathers the usual suspects: there's Eva Braun and Rudolf Hess and of course the future führer himself. But rather than put them at the center of her novel, Rusch relegates them to cameo appearances only and hands the starring role to the fictional Fritz Stecher, a cop investigating the death of Hitler's beloved niece, Geli Raubal. The relationship between uncle and niece has been the subject of speculation for decades--everything from incest to murder has been suggested, but the facts are these: Hitler and the 23-year-old Geli lived together in a house in Munich, and in 1931, she died, the apparent victim of a suicide. Historians may debate the circumstances; novelists have the freedom to imagine answers. Rusch's solution to the riddle of young Geli Raubal's death is at the heart of this dark novel, encompassing both Hitler's tangled personal relationships and his cutthroat political rivalries. Told from the perspective of a now-elderly Stecher, Rusch's tale not only speculates on what might have happened, but also hints at what might have been if Hitler's career had been derailed early on by scandal. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Munich, 1972. Annie Pohlmann, working on a Harvard dissertation on police procedures, is interviewing Fritz Stecher, retired Detective Inspector of the Kripo, about his pioneering work in forensic investigation, when a chance question no earlier interviewer had ever thought to ask himwhy did he retire prematurely over 40 years ago?opens a Pandora's box of revelations about his last case. The victim: Angela Raubal, niece of National Socialist party leader Adolf Hitler, shot to death in her uncle's apartment. By the time Stecher and his men arrived on the scene, the body had already been spirited away to discreet interment in Vienna, leaving behind only a brusque note from the Bavarian minister of justice, Franz Grtner, identifying Geli Raubal's death as suicide. But none of the evidence Stecher turned upthe time of Geli's death, her broken nose, the shocking signs of earlier beatings, the indications that Hitler was her loverconfirmed this verdict, even though the more he pressed, the more emphatic the denials grew. Eventually Stecher, haunted by his own wife's death, set the case aside, just in time for Hitler's election as Chancellor in 1933. Now he's finally ready to face the truth. SF/fantasy veteran Rusch turns the real-life story of Geli's death into a workmanlike parable with little mystery, since the solution is as predictable as the Had-I-But-Known moral. -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

ASIN : B007AED4V6
Publisher : Max Crime; Revised edition (June 7, 2010)
Publication date : June 7, 2010
Language : English
File size : 795 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 288 pages
Page numbers source ISBN : 1844549283
Lending : Not Enabled

Best Sellers Rank: #2,736,684 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,895 in Historical German Fiction
- #2,833 in Historical Biographical Fiction
- #5,208 in Biographical Fiction (Kindle Store)

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Jack Ingram

Interesting read

Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2014

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I enjoyed this book and the historical "maybe" what happened approach by the author. I didn't expect a novel but that is what it is. It is still interesting especially if you have read real historical facts about the subject before.

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J.C.

Great read

Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2016

I'm listening on tape. Really a riviting and well written historical novel in murder mystery form. Based on the real death in mysterious circumstances of Hitler's niece (and lover) when Herr Hitler was still just an upstart leader of a minority political party and memories of WWI and the starvation and humiliation that befel the German people was still fresh in German minds. The story is told by an elderly retired detective, famous for solving a different murder. He tells the story to a young American College student who is interviewing him for her Thesis on police methods. She doesn't expect her thesis to end up being about pre-Nazi Germany,and her ignorance is a great device for asking he questions a modern reader might have about the historic setting and German culture.

As I listen I.can imagine the people and places well. This book would convert well into a movie screenplay.

Really an interesting read and I can't wait to get back to the audiobook in my car stereo to hear the ending!

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Bill Jordin

A Death in Munich

Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2012

Hitler's Angel (1998) is a standalone Historical novel. It is set in Munich during 1972 and refers to events in 1931 within that city.

In this novel, Friedrich Stechler is a former Detective Inspector in the Bavarian Kriminalpolizei. Fritz is a combat veteran from World War I. He was married to Gisela and had one son, Wilhelm; both died after the war.

Annie Pohlmann is an American who interviews Fritz for her doctoral dissertation. She wants to know how he solved the Demmelmayer case.

Adolf Hitler was the leader of NSDAP, the National Socialist German Workers Party. He is the uncle of Geli.

Angela Maria Raubal is the twenty-three year old niece of Hitler. Geli was living with her uncle at the time of her death.

In this story, Annie has come to Fritz to determine how his mind worked during the Demmelmayer case. Instead, he tells her about the Raubal homicide. She is reluctant to consider another crime, but he says that the case was much more difficult than the Demmelmayer incident.

Fritz arrived at the crime scene knowing only that a woman had died. The Schutzpolizei direct him to Hitler's second floor apartment. Fritz finds traces of blood on the carpet runner leading to a bedroom. There he finds a huge blood stain, but no body.

The body had been missing when the first policeman arrived. The occupants of the apartment claimed that the girl had committed suicide. Yet the gun that she supposedly used to kill herself was also missing.

Soon Fritz discovered that the Bavarian Minister of Justice had called the death a suicide. The coroner had seen the body and declared it a suicide. The body had been shipped to Vienna for burial.

Fritz is not allowed to conduct a full investigation. Yet he questions several people and receives conflicting information. The sequence of events is unclear.

This tale is based on an actual occurrence. Hitler's niece died in his apartment within Munich. The Bavarian Minister of Justice declared it a suicide and closed the case. But the investigation recounted in this story did not happen.

This novel is fiction. The conclusions are speculations, not fact. Yet none know what really happened in Hitler's apartment. This story describes one possibility.

One thinks that the story is more about the conditions within Germany at that time than about a murder. Hitler was a symptom, not a cause. The German people were starving and their money was worthless. They were looking for someone to show them the way to prosperity and Hitler promised to lead them to it.

Highly recommended for Rusch fans and for anyone else who enjoys tales of historical fiction, police procedurals, and personal pain. Read and consider!

-Bill Jordin

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Robert Spencer

worth reading

Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 1998

I have some problems with this book..the ending revelations about Fritz's past, the judgements of Fritz on the American character are not inaccurate, but a bit repetitive, and the "hitler in all of us" idea is dabatable, and will be debated for a long time. But this novel does succeed in several ways, particularly in showing how devasted the world of the German was after WWI, and it depicts well the political labyrinth of german society before Hitler actually took full power in 1933. The story was engrossing and intelligent, the world depicted is complex and interesting. There were many times and ways Hitler could have been stoped by the Germans, the plain and tragic fact was that he was not stopped until 50 million people had died violent deaths as a result of the german people following him. As insane or not as Hitler may have been, he did not effect the Holocaust or unleash history's bloodiest war by himself...millions and millions of Germans willingly followed him into this moral hell, and millions more in Europe and even for a time, America, acquiesed in the horror. We, after all, bombed Dresden weeks before the war's end, killing a hundred thousand civilians when we could have been bombing the rail lines to the camps. One great success of this book is that it does not avoid the moral ambiguities of the time. Worth reading.

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Laura H

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 6, 2016

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Good read

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TracyOwen

Great read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 30, 2013

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Was unsure when I purchased this kindle book but read it all in 2 days! Very interesting...definitely would read another book by this author!

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Amy

Amazing!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 14, 2014

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