Hitler's Niece
“They took cold-weather strolls with Prinz around Kleinhesselohersee in the Englischer Garten, huddled with Bahlsen biscuits and steaming tea from a vacuum bottle in the Apollo Temple at Nymphenburger Park, watched old men in ski caps and many sweaters sweep snow from the frozen canals and slide red and yellow and green curling stones across steel-blue lanes of ice. The fields and sidewalks were white with snow, shrubs and trees were just strokes of black, and the skies were the gray of cigarett...e smoke with no more than a faint hint of white where the hidden sun was; but she loved it that the children carried skates to school, painted their faces, wore masks, and that the Volk in general were as motley and costumed and festively gay as the huntsmen in paintings by Pieter Brueghel.The Sturmabteilung and the Hitler Youth hosted many parties and masquerades during January’s Carnival and Lent’s week of Starkbierzeit, or strong beer time, and the organizations took care to invite Hitler’s famous niece, but Geli was generally forbidden to attend the affairs for Hitler’s fear that she’d fall into what he called “a misalliance,”MoreLess
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