Did Hitler kill his niece? Newly found records raise fresh questions over 95-year-old mystery

Key Points:

• Newly uncovered archival documents suggest Angela ‘Geli’ Raubal, Adolf Hitler’s half-niece, may have died a day earlier than the official date of September 19, 1931, potentially placing Hitler in Munich at the time of her death.
• Official records previously indicated Hitler had left Munich for Nuremberg before her body was found, supporting the conclusion of suicide, but new evidence from death registers and notices show the discovery at 10:15 a.m. on September 18.
• Historian Harold Sandner proposes the conflicting dates might indicate a police cover-up to protect Hitler and the Nazi Party, a theory supported by historian Thomas Weber, who finds the new documents credible and significant.
• While the new findings raise questions about the circumstances of Raubal’s death, experts caution against concluding Hitler murdered her, noting the Nazi Party’s interest in avoiding scandal during its rise to power.
• Raubal’s death has long been surrounded by speculation about Hitler’s controlling and possibly obsessive relationship with her, but the mystery of her death remains unresolved despite the new evidence.