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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
National
Rana Sarkar

Hitler’s regime killed over 6 million Jews, was responsible for the death of several million more, but the Nazi chief is reported to have personally killed only one person, and she was his niece

Before Adolf Hitler became responsible for the Nazi regime that murdered six million Jews and millions of other people, there was very little evidence that he personally killed anyone. But rumors and mysteries about his role in it have not died down even after 95 years since the death of his niece, Geli Raubal, with whom he had a rather unusual relationship.

Like Hitler’s death from a gunshot wound, over the years, considered suicide; official records put his 23-year-old half niece Geli’s death in the same category. Now, newly unearthed records have reopened the mystery surrounding it and suggest that there is a possibility that the same finger has pulled the trigger on her niece, too.

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