Adolf Hitler

Wikipédia USA au sujet de Geli Raubal confirme apparemment un passage à l'acte la nuit du 18 au 19 donc bien au moment le plus fort du jour critique émotionnel de Adolf Hitler :

Death
Raubal was found dead by members of Hitler's staff from a gunshot wound to the lung in her room in Hitler's Munich apartment on the morning of September 19, 1931, at the age of 23.[1] The official cause of death was listed as suicide. It cannot be known how objective the Munich police were in the investigation though, as Hitler already had considerable influence with them. The finding of suicide resulted from her door being locked from the inside, and no autopsy was conducted, although a doctor estimated her death had occurred the previous day, September 18.[1] There were many rumours. Since she was killed by a bullet fired from his gun, a Walther, it was whispered that Hitler shot her (or ordered her to be shot) for infidelity or other reasons. As these rumors circulated, Hitler himself released a statement to the Munchener Post reading: "It is untrue that I and my niece had a quarrel on Friday 18 September; it is untrue that I was violently opposed to my niece going to Vienna; it is untrue that my niece was engaged to someone in Vienna and I forbade it."[3]

Her death occurred on a night when the entire Hitler household help was off duty except for a deaf worker, Frau Dachs, and it is said that it was a rare occurrence for Hitler to leave behind his gun.[1] By all accounts they argued intensely in the days leading to her death. Her brother Leo said that she had been happy at Berchtesgaden in the days preceding the beginning of her visit to Munich, on September 17.[1] She left a note behind, addressed to a friend in Vienna that read: "When I come to Vienna-- hopefully very soon-- we'll drive to Semmering, an..." The note was left unfinished.[3]

Ernst Hanfstaengl maintained that Raubal killed herself following a "flaming row" with Hitler, who had discovered she was pregnant by a Jewish art teacher in Linz.[3] Other reports claim that Raubal had requested permission to continue her voice studies in Vienna, and Hitler refused to allow her to go, causing their fight of September 18.[5][9]

Geli Raubal is buried in Vienna's Central Cemetery (Zentralfriedhof).


Effects on Hitler
Hitler had left town the previous afternoon for a speaking tour and returned from Nuremburg on hearing the news.[1] Hitler would later threaten to commit suicide while in seclusion at Tegern Lake. He had made similar threats during past moments of personal crisis or defeat, most notably after the failed Beer Hall Putsch. Hitler would keep a bust or portrait of Raubal in each of his bedrooms, and his entourage was instructed not to say her name.[3] Official Nazi photographer Heinrich Hoffmann said of Raubal's death, "That was when the seeds of inhumanity began to grow inside Hitler."[10]

Some historians have found that Raubal's death inspired Hitler to become a vegetarian, although other historians dispute this assertion. For example, historian Thomas Fuchs reports that Hitler's experiments with vegetarianism as a young adult were "far from absolute in... adherence... in September 1931, he manifested an active loathing for meat" which followed the suicide of Raubal, "the niece with whom Hitler had been in love."[11]

American author and historian John Toland mentions that after Raubal's death Hitler became a near-vegetarian and "he meant it. From that moment on, she [Frau Hess] said, Hitler never ate another piece of meat except for liver dumplings. 'Suddenly! He ate meat before that. It is very difficult to understand or explain.'" Biographies by the German journalist Joachim Fest and British historian Ian Kershaw also state that Hitler became a near-vegetarian after Raubal's 1931 death. Food writer Bee Wilson writes that after Raubal's suicide Hitler's diet was "free of flesh," describes his strict vegetarian regime and notes, "It amused him to spoil carnivorous guests' appetites... As they put their forks down in disgust, he would harangue them for hypocrisy. 'That shows how cowardly people are,' he would say. 'They can't face doing certain horrible things themselves, but they enjoy the benefits without a pang of conscience.'"