The relationship was not exclusive, but it was close: he gave her an expensive diamond braceletĪ few years later, Braun pointed to the sofa on which Chamberlain, too, sat during the Munich Crisis of 1938, and said, smiling: 'If only he knew what has gone on there on that sofa.' Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda chief, introduced Renate Muller to a star-struck Hitler and they became an item. However, having taken Diana into his confidence, and at a time when British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was still hoping to maintain peace, Hitler sat on a sofa next to Diana and whispered into her ear that war between Germany and Britain was inevitable. With both Mitford sisters spending time in Germany, Unity hoped the country and Britain would be allies. He certainly played her against Eva Braun, his long-term mistress, leaving the insecure Eva jealous and angry.
There was no doubt that Hitler and Unity were very close, but whether the relationship went beyond friendship is unclear. Unity's antics caused an outcry in Britain: she proclaimed herself a 'Jew hater,' gave a Nazi salute to the British consul in Munich, and when Germany annexed Austria in March 1938, she stood beside a triumphant Hitler on the balcony in Vienna. He took a close interest in his attractive, lively niece, who was 19 years his juniorĪs a girl, Unity had pictures of Hitler and swastikas on her bedroom wall – she and her older sister Diana were both committed fascists and attended the Nuremberg rally in 1933.
When Geli began university in Munich in 1929 she moved into his apartment. Niece who hot herself with Hitler's pistol: Much gossip arose from Hitler's relationship with Angelika – 'Geli' – Raubal, the daughter of his older half-sister, Angela.
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