Chapter 57 Chapter 9 Family Death (6)

In the summer of 1931, Hitler was busy with the struggle to consolidate the party and reorganized the SS in response to the weaknesses exposed by the Stennis rebellion.At the same time, a personal matter deeply disturbed him.He learns that Morris, his driver and companion, is secretly engaged to his niece Gilly.Gilly had been living in the apartment on Prinsregentinplatz, her movements restricted.Ironically, it was the Führer, the matchmaker, who suggested the idea to Morris. "I've had dinner with you every night since you got married," he urged the young man. "I took him at his word," Morris once told an interviewer, "and decided to get engaged to Gilly because, like everyone else, I loved her very much. She accepted my proposal with joy." For some time, knowing Those in the know knew they were lovers; Maurice publicly expressed his regrets about this "unhappy love" in front of Goebbels.Finally, he mustered up the courage to confess.Hitler was furious, accused Morris of being unfaithful to him, and dismissed him as a driver.

Some close to the Führer see him as little more than a concerned relative. "His love was paternal," housekeeper Anne Winter insisted years later. "He only cared about her well-being. Gilly was a fickle girl, and she wanted to seduce everyone, including Hitler. He just wanted to protect her." In a sense, Gilly became a captive.Hitler gave Gilly everything she wanted, except freedom.Even when going to music lessons, he insisted on sending someone he trusted to accompany her.She once complained to a relative, "Her life is very difficult. Hitler insisted that she accompany him wherever he went. This embarrassed her, especially when she knew that Gregor and Strassel opposed her. Walked openly with Hitler. Also, it kept her out of contact with other young people."

One evening, the Hanfstangels met Gilly and Hitler at the Residenz Theater.The four had supper together at the Schwarzwald restaurant.Hanfstangel notes that Gilly "seemed bored and looked around at the other tables. He couldn't help feeling that this relationship she had with Hitler was forced." Mrs. Hanfstangel also felt that Gilly The girl was repressed, as if she "couldn't get what she needed in life." However, Mrs. Winter was convinced that it was Gilly who pursued Hitler. "Naturally she wants to be Mrs. Hitler. He's perfectly qualified... She's so flirtatious with everybody, she's not a decent girl."

Gilly was no doubt envious of her uncle's fame.Every time they sipped tea at Café Heck, their table was always mobbed by admirers, many of them women.They kissed his hand and asked for souvenirs.It was also evident that the Führer liked her far more than his uncle had liked his niece. "He loved her," Morris asserted, "but it was a strange kind of love, a love he dared not express, because his pride was too great to admit the weakness of his eroticism." It was also said that the two had a romantic affair.Otto Strassel also wrote an article about the rumors he heard in the street, sensationalizing that they had a deviant relationship between the sexes.This, of course, would only be believed by someone who expected the worst from Hitler.He loved his niece very much, but sexual relations were unlikely.Hitler was a conservative man who did not dare to openly pursue any woman, and he was also cautious everywhere, not daring to hide his beauty in a golden house, keeping his mistress in the apartment-especially the daughter of his half-sister-in order not to destroy his life. Political career.

By September, Gilly had mixed up with another young man, an Austrian, a painter.It was love at first sight, and according to Christa Schroeder (Hitler's secretary), he proposed to her immediately.Once, she told Mrs. Hoffman about her unhappy romance.After admitting that she fell in love with an Austrian painter and felt pain, she suddenly changed her words: "Oh, that's all! You and I can't do anything. Let's talk about something else!" After hearing the news, Hitler immediately forced her to have a relationship with the painter. Cut off contact.This was obviously with the tacit approval of his sister Angela.

In mid-September, Gilly called her vocal teacher to say that she no longer had lessons and was going to Vienna.After the phone call she went to see her mother in Berchtesgaden.No sooner had she arrived than she received a phone call from her uncle "Adolf," inviting her to return to Munich immediately.She felt compelled to go back, but when she learned that he was about to leave Munich for a meeting of the magistrate and the main leaders of the SA, she "blamed him for making her trip useless."Hitler forbade her to go to Vienna in his absence, and in this way she went from angry to furious. On September 17, the two continued to argue over lunch (eating spaghetti).Mrs. Winter, who was in the kitchen, heard their argument growing louder.As Gilly rushed out of the dining room, Mrs. Winter noticed, she was flushed.

Gilly remained in the room.Then she heard her uncle come down the stairs, and followed him into the passage.Downstairs, Hoffmann, who had accompanied Hitler, was waiting.Gilly was holding something in her left hand, but Mrs. Lessert couldn't make out what it was. "Good-bye, Uncle Adolf!" she called downstairs. "Good-bye, Herr Hoffmann!" Hitler stopped at the gate, looked back, and went up the stairs again.He caressed Gilly's cheek and whispered something in her ear.But she remained motionless, blushing with rage.Later, she said to the housekeeper, "Really, I have nothing in common with my uncle."

Hitler was silent as the new driver, Julius Schreck, drove the Mercedis down Prinsregentinstrasse.Suddenly, he turned to Hoffmann and said, "I don't know why, but I feel very uncomfortable." Hoffmann—whose unofficial duty was to keep the Führer happy—told him that it was probably a southerly wind typical of the Alps due to.Hitler made no reply, and they drove on to Nuremberg. In the apartment, Mrs. Leishert heard something broken in the kitchen, and she said to her mother: "Gilly must have accidentally broken the perfume bottle on the dressing table." Breaking it in Hitler's coat pocket - she found a letter, written on blue paper.The letter was originally written by Eva Braun.A few months ago, Hitler resumed contact with her, because it was so secret that Gilly didn't know it at all.Later that day, Anne Winter saw Gilly tear the letter into four pieces.The butler, who likes to find out the truth, put the letters together.The content of the letter is roughly:

Dear Herr Hitler: Thanks again for letting me watch the show.It was a night to remember.I am truly grateful for your affection.I look forward to seeing you again. your Eva Gilly locked herself in the room and said not to disturb her. Although she lost her temper, Mrs. Winter was not worried.That night, she left the apartment and went home as usual.Mrs. Lessert slept in the apartment with her daughter.At night, they heard muffled noises, but ignored them.They are also used to this "willful" girl. But Mrs. Lessert was startled the next morning to find Gilly's door still locked.She hurriedly called Max Ammann and Franz Schwartz.The two called for a locksmith.Gilly was lying on the floor next to the couch with a 6.34mm handgun beside her.She was shot in the heart.

In Nuremberg that morning, Hitler and Hoffmann left the Deutsche Hotel for Hamburg. After the "Methetis" car left the city, Hitler found a car following them.He was afraid of being attacked, so he let Shrek speed up.Then he realized that what was behind was a taxi and that sitting next to the driver was a waiter from the Hotel Deutsches, who was still gesticulating to stop.The waiter told him that Mr. Hess had called him from Munich and the call had not hung up.Hitler immediately returned to the hotel, threw his hat and whip on a chair, and entered the telephone room.With the telephone room door open, Hoffmann heard Hitler say: "I am Hitler. What happened?" After a pause, he exclaimed: "Oh, God! How terrible!" "Hess, answer me—true or false—is she still alive?" Apparently, the line was cut or Hess hung up.

"Hitler's frenzy infected others," Hoffmann recalls. "The driver stepped on the accelerator to the bottom, and the car roared back to Munich. I saw Hitler's face in the rear seat mirror. His lips were tightly closed, and his eyes were dull looking at the windshield, turning a blind eye." After returning to the apartment, Ji Li's body has been removed.Because it was Saturday, none of the newspapers reported it, and the matter did not appear in the newspapers until Monday.Some people insinuated that Hitler abandoned his niece; others said that Justice Minister Gurner destroyed the evidence.The socialist daily Munich Post published a long article detailing Gilly's frequent quarrels with Hitler.It even claimed that the bridge of her nose had been broken and that she bore signs of abuse.Gilly could not have been killed by Hitler.Because he's in Nuremberg; it can't be Hitler or *?Colleagues, ordered her to be killed to avoid scandal.If so, then she should have been killed elsewhere than in the Führer's residence.Some of Hitler's followers said that Gilly's death was purely accidental: perhaps some sound frightened her and killed herself in a panic.There is also a theory that she went off with a pistol.From the evidence, however, the most logical conclusion is that she committed suicide—perhaps out of desperation, or jealousy, or for unknown reasons.Wilhelm Patrick Hitler's mother told Hanf Stangl, "The reason for Gilly's suicide is very clear to the family: a Jew in Linz - the painting teacher made her pregnant." In 1931, in a meeting, the Führer's second cousin, Hans Hitler, firmly denied this. Dejected and humiliated, Hitler told Frank, "He can no longer read the papers, because the smear campaign is too much for him. He wants to get out of politics, to quit politics, and to never show his face again." In desperation, he and Hoffmann fled to the country—his publisher, Adolf Müller, at the villa in Teguernsey.After arriving at the destination, the driver Schreck whispered to Hoffman that he hid the Führer's gun because he was afraid that he would commit suicide.As soon as Hitler entered the room, he paced back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back.Hoffmann asked him what he would like to eat, and Hitler shook his head.He paced non-stop hour after hour until late at night.At dawn, Hoffman knocked gently on his door.no answer.He went straight into the room and found that Hitler was still walking up and down, with his hands behind his back and his eyes looking into the distance. Hoffmann called home and asked how to make spaghetti, the Führer's favorite food.But Hitler still refused to eat.He did not eat or drink, and paced for two days.He listened to the phone once.Frank said by phone that he had taken steps to pass laws to stop the press's dirty campaign.He said in a tired and weak voice, "I thank you. I will get back together. I will never forget you." The news finally reached Miller's villa: Gilly was buried in Vienna; Rohm, Miller, Himmler, and the young Alfred Frau, the self-proclaimed National Socialist Governor of Vienna, attended the funeral at the Central Cemetery. Enfred.Because of his political activities, Hitler was barred from returning to his homeland, but decided to risk arrest.That night, he sat next to Schreck and drove to Austria in a "Mercettis" car.Hoffman sat alone on the back seat.They drove silently towards the Austrian border, followed by a big car filled with guards.It was almost dawn when we arrived. Outside Vienna, Frauenfeld had already prepared a small car for Hitler-because the "Mercedes" was too conspicuous.Without saying a word, they came to the Central Cemetery.Hitler placed flowers on the grave.The tombstone reads: our darling gilly sleep here she is our sunshine Born on June 4, 1908 Died September 18, 1931 Rabaul family On the way to the Frauenfeld apartment, Hitler suddenly broke the long silence.He asked if they were going to walk past the theater.Frauenfeld said there had to be a detour. "Ah, please go around."Hitler said, "It doesn't matter if you can't get in, just pass by." At Frauenfeld's home, Hitler had a good breakfast.Then he began calmly, not about the tragedy, but about Germany's political future and himself.His voice was firm and full of confidence.He told Frauenfeld that he would take power in Germany by 1933 at the latest, before the Poles took Danzig.Once back in his car, Hitler stared straight ahead again with his eyes straight.Then, as if thinking aloud, he said, "That's it, now let the fight begin—this fight must be won, must be won!" About a day or two later, he drove north to attend the executive meeting.The group rested overnight in a small hotel.At breakfast the next day, Hitler refused to eat ham. "It's like eating a corpse!" he said to Göring.After that, he never wanted to eat meat again. (He had said this before, and had intended to be a vegetarian; according to Mrs. Hess, this time he did what he said. She said that since then, he has not eaten a piece of meat except liver pie. . "Suddenly! He was eating meat before that. It's hard to understand or explain.") In Hamburg he gave a speech.The audience was many and enthusiastic.As before, his speech was powerful and brilliant.As on the previous two occasions—once at Paswalk, the other at Landsberg—Hitler once again broke through suicidal misery.Maybe it's a kind of rebirth, because each time he bounces back from the abyss, refreshed, and moves in a new direction.This is his third resurrection.