‘There’s nothing better than educating a young thing,’ he reflected, ‘malleable as wax.’ In September 1931, Geli shot herself with a pistol given to her by Uncle Alf. No one knows why she killed herself, but most likely she found herself suffocated by Hitler’s control. ‘The days are sad right now,’ a poleaxed Hitler told Winifred Wagner, the composer’s daughter-in-law and one of the devoted hostesses who served as surrogate mothers. The suicide made him a vegetarian and confirmed that love and family mattered little to him. ‘I’m the most limited person in the world in this area,’ he said, ‘I
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