and the neighbours reported that as Hitler was leaving the house one morning, his niece called down from her bedroom window, pleading one more time for permission to go to Vienna. Hitler yelled back with a firm no.

In a tone of indifference she announced that next day she was going to Berchtesgaden to see her mother, who was living in the mountain house on theObersalzberg. She went about the apartment with a little box bearing a dead canary, bedded in cotton; she sang to herself and wept a little and said she meant to bury poor dead 'Hansi near the house on the Obersalzberg. She began a letter to a friend in Linz an everyday letter without special content. That was her last known act. Next morning shewas found shot to death. It was September 18, 1931. Geli Raubal was twenty-three years of age. (2)

*The first published statement that Hitler may have had a perversion was made in an article appearing in 1971 and drawing on a valuable psychological investigation of Hitler prepared for the OSS in 1943 by Dr. Walter C. Langer and other American psychoanalysts and clinical psychologists. This wartime report, subsequently published in 1972, reached the following conclusion with regard to Hitler’s aberrant sexual activity:

It is an extreme form of masochism in which the individual derives sexual gratification from the act of having a woman urinate or defecate on him. (3)