Hitler's Niece Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

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Original Title:	Hitler's Niece
ISBN:	0060932201 (ISBN13: 9780060932206)
Edition Language:	English

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Hitler's Niece 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.

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Title	:	Hitler's Niece
Author	:	Ron Hansen
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	August 22nd 2000 by Harper Perennial (first published 1999)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. War. World War II. Cultural. Germany

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Newsflash...Hitler was one sick puppy. Granted this gives more "insight" into how truly sick he was but it focused on his love life and his quirks. It was somewhat enjoyable but often difficult to get through.

On Hitlers Niece and writing historical fictionIf you want to know about Hitlers life, then read Ian Kershaws Hitler: A Biography (W. W. Norton & Company, 2010). If you want to find out as much as possible about the history of the Nazi movement and Hitlers role in it, then read Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives by Alan Bullock (Knopf, 1992). But if you want to get a sense of who Hitler was a human being, I encourage you to read a very well written historical novel by Ron Hansen called

Hansen makes no bones about how he feels about the characters in his books. In fiction, the rule is to "show, not tell", but Hansen tells. He lets you know right off just how you should feel about a person. For this reason, initially I thought this book read more like a young adult novel than a full-on fictionalized biography for adults. It is only because I prefer to finish what I start that I ultimately gave it more credit.The story is about Angelika Raubal, the daughter of Adolf Hitler's

The ending still shocks me, even though it shouldn't.

The ending still shocks me, even though it shouldn't.

I was fascinated to learn about Geli, who apparently played a large part in the life of Hitler yet remains a very small persona in the large history of Adolf Hitler. It was difficult to get into the book; it seemed as if the book couldn't decide whether it wanted to be fiction or non-fiction. The writing was clumsy, and it didn't get terribly interesting until a bit into the book. Hansen eventually found the flow, though, and the writing and narrative grew more fluid as the action progressed. As

this is a well written, interesting novel about the relationship between hitler and his niece who was found shot to death in a flat owned by hitler, and with his gun by her side, in 1931.amazingly enough, this event has been largely forgotten.i wasn't even aware that he had a niece, never mind one who died under mysterious circumstanes.of course hitler and the nazi party had it pretty well hushed up at the time, so it's great that hansen has used a lot of resource material to come up with his