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A Skeleton In Hitler's Cupboard:
Unsolved Mystery Of His Past
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 1940. -PAGE IT
Some day there may well be another Inquiry into the death of Jut the outrageous demands to
a young Austrian girl who was found dead in mysterions circum- stances in the house of her great-uncle at Munich in 1931, writes J. B. Firth in the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post.
Her name was Angela Raubal. They called her Gely, Austrian by birth, she was pretty, attractive and gay, and possessed her full share of the charm and vivacity of her countrywomen. Such at least were her outstanding qualities when she went to live, about 1928, with her Uncle Adolf,
Adolf Hitler-lot then, of course, tion to Goering, the militarists, the Fuehrer of the Reich-was the Junkers and the big, industri" already fully conscious of his com-alists.
wish.
+
which Mile (an earller Hame of Hitler's) had submitted. I had not credited them, I thought Mile........ was hysterical and Hed at random. But Cely. who was completely ignorant of this other adventure of her uncle's, confirmed point, by point what the imagination of a sane man can hardly belieys:"
PRIEST'S MESSAGE Such is Strasser's story.
His
mind
ing destiny, and already furiously It is no obscure and Irresponsible break with Hitler, followed soon Impatient of all who crossed his person, therefore, who now de-after when he heard of Gely's path or withstood is slightest clares that Hitler shot his great- tragic death in 1931 his
inlece Gely in 1931, He adduces, ir naturally travelled back to the Gely was found one day shot corroboration, what another bro- earlier and unforgettable incident. dead. The finding of the court ther. Paul, told him at their last it was not till four years after that he heard Paul's story. It was was suicide, but to many it did interview in the spring of 1935. not seem altogether satisfactory. SUICIDE OR MURDER?
Paul, who is a Benedictine monk, not till last November, after he -revealed to him that his brother bad revealed part of the story in Gregor had confided to him, un-a French newspaper, that he re- Was this girl's death suicide order pledge of secrecy, that after Ceived the following message from -it Is an ugly word-murder? Gely's death he had spent three an Austrian priest in exile:--
dissuading
People in Munich wondered and passed on. It was decidedly dan- days and nights with Adolf Hitler from turning gerous, even in 1931, to gossip in against himself the revolver with Munich to the prejudice of Adol which he had committed the deed. Hitler. Besides, had he not seemed Gregor had told him nothing of broken-hearted that such an af the circumstances of, the crime cident should have happened to a
and nothing of its cause Only close relative living in his house
the bare fact. under his protection?, True: he has the faculty at will to start the tears coursing down his face, but
jenume sorrow it was here:
was
FITS IN WITH FACTS But it so happened that Otto!
"It is "who buried Angela Raubal, the little Gely of whom Otto Strasser speaks. They pretend that she committed suicide. I would never have permitted the Interment of`a suicide in consecrated ground. From the fact that I gave her Christian burial, you will be able to draw the precise con- clusions which I am forbidden
If ever there was an occasion for was himself able to supply of his to communicate to you direct."
If this astonishing story is true, own personal knowledge an ex- Still, there was ugly talk, and planation which, right or not, at action once more limps lamely the Procurator-General, actually
jany rate fits in with known facts behind fact. But is it true? Read- entered u enarge against Hitler. It
He says that when he was diving ers must judge for themselves. not heard because the
in Munich in 1928 he paid the Strasser, admittedly. is Hitler's Bavarian Minister of Justice, one attractive Gely a good deal of at-mortal foe. He has a murdered Guertner. quashed it. Perhaps ttention and took her out to dances brother to avenge and wishes him Is not so curious that Guertner and masked balls. One day as he dead and damned. On the other was afterwards promoted Minister was dressing for a dance his bro-hand. he is a man of character of Justice of the Reich
ther Gregor burst into his room, and repute, who has fought with Who is it who now recalls these saying, "Adolf does not want you clean weapons against foul. bygones, it may be asked. It is to go out with Gely," As he spoke, ANY CHARGE CREDIBLE cne who lived in close association the telephone bell rang and Hitler But is the charge itself credible with Hitler at that time. He openly shouted into the instrument: "I against Hitler apart from the charges him with having shot Gely hear, that you have an appoint credibility in a fit of mad fury, and brings ment with that little hussy Gely makes it? As to that, any charge forward circumstantial evidence of
I won't have her going out with is credible against a paranolae, 3 startling character.
a married man. I won't stand your Nothing can be ruled out as-In- Althy Berlin ways in Munich." So credible or impossible. He admits there was no party and dance that no moral code. To him, if to no one else in the wide world, "aiht night.
vetitum." He is like the Roman Emperor who, as a boy. sald to
HITLER'S MEGALOMANIA
STATE OF COLLAPSE
ot the
person
who
If this person, who is and has been for years a declared and im- placable enemy of Hitler, had not been a man of standing and re- pute, his word would go for little.
Next day Gely came to see Stras-his mother: "Remember that air But Otto Strasser. though living ser, her eyes red with tears and things are allowed to me against In exile, has a large if secret fol- herself almost in a state of col-all men." lowing in Gerraany. He was a lapse
A man who could ruthlessly blot Hitlerite for some years but always "He has locked me up," she cried. put some of his oldest friends in with deep misgivings as to the "He locks me up every time I say a paroxysm of terror lest they megalomania of his leader,
should be plotting his overthrow 'No" Hitler sent him to Berlin to rally
There was no need to ask her might easily in a fit of thwarted who the party there after the Munich many questions.
fury shoot down a woman "putsch" and he met with great! "With anger, disgust, horror, she denied his evil will. A paranolac success. He was an intellectual told me of the strange proposals may feel even acute remorse for National-Socialist and an ardent with which her uncle pursued three days and nights and talk, énthusfast for the Socialist side her
without meaning it, of suicide.. the story continues:-- of the programme which Hitler progressively abandoned.
He often engaged in lively altercations with Hitler on the
"I was quite aware of the im- and then put it firmly from his possibilities of Adolf. I had heard mind for ever..
atter's lust for bower and his WEATHER REPORT
brother, Gregor Strasser, whose
intimacy with Hitler was much
closer than his own, frequently
Hongkong Royal Observatory
10 am, Sept. 17.
Intervened to restore peace be-Barometer (at sea level), 29.95 ins. tween then. But if any two men Temperature, 84 F. had opportunities to know Hitler Humidity, 78 per cent. as he really was from 1923 to 1931 Wind Direction, E.
It was the two Strassera.
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Data of
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Gregor was murdered, shot i
Temperature; maximum yesterday:
88 F.
h m
Itt. in.
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Wed. 18
10 24
22 97
64 (63)
03-55
2 6
18.14 12 4
Thur 19
1064 € 1
04.35
22.44
6 4
16 42
12 €
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20
11 255 8
06.14
23 046 5
17 06 3 0
Sat.
21
11 55
5 4
0556
23 27
6 6
13 4
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20 42 128
1937
401
1749 13-7
Mon, 23
00,09
18 81
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13 40
46
17.45
40
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OS KA.
30
16 17 1441
1808
4 2
Maximum température, 25
an underground cellar during the Temperature; minimum last night,
77. P. party "purge" al June 30, 1934. Otto was persistently shadowed Rainfall for 24 hrs. ending 10th
today, 0.01 in. and hunted by the gangsters of
en
112.33 ins.
the Gestapo on. Austrian, and even Total rainfall: since January 1st.
had many French so and escapes which he describes in an Against an average of, 73 28 ins. astonishing book, "Hitler et Mol," Bunset tonight, 6.25 p.m. published recently by the Paris Bunrise tomorrow, 611 am, house of Bernard Gasset..
4 pm., Sept. 17. Otto Strasser, in fact, is the les- Barometer (at sea level), 29.08 ins.. der of the anti-Hitler National-Temperature, 83 F. Socialists, and if Hitler and his Humidity, 78 per cent.
he Wind Direction, ESE, gang disappeared tomorrow. yould aspire to power in opposi-Wind Force (Beaufort), 4.
ליפ 17
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