She watched his shadow shift shapes on the floor as he crossed to her. She shivered with cold. She felt the feather bed sag with his weight as he sat just beside her. ‘Aren’t you the randy harlot,’ he said with a smile. ‘To try to rush me like that.’ This book also shares light into other head Nazis who at the time were not of any importance besides working for the Nazi Party. If you know your Nazi history and are familiar with some of the head Nazi's you will also see in the book of how they were before the Nazi Rise. Nazi's such as Hess, Himmler, Goring, Goebells, and others.

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Another Ron, Ron Rosenbaum, wrote a great book called Explaining Hitler which includes an extraordinary interview with Claude Lanzmann, director of Shoah. The irascible Frenchman launches into an apoplectic tirade about Hitler’s baby photos. These photos are an obscenity, he says. They should never have been published. All this analysis of Hitler’s life, his mind, his soul, it’s an abomination. Because psychohistory is a figleaf for revisionism. To explain is to understand is to justify. All right, so, don’t be giving Claude a copy of Hitler’s Niece for his birthday present. Because all the gruesome human Hitlers you’ve been previously spared are here! Look - jolly Hitler, jumping Hitler, jesting Hitler, joyful Hitler, happy Hitler, playful Hitler, cringing Hitler, oh no, surely not, no, he wouldn’t, yes yes it’s true - masturbating Hitler. They’re all here. Roll up. I was more pleased with Last Stop Vienna, and that may be because Geli was not the main character in this book. The main character is an SA man named Karl who falls in love with Geli. I enjoyed following Karl's ups & downs in 1920's Berlin & Munich, and probably would have liked the book, even if Geli had not been a part of it. Karl is not present when Geli dies in this book, so the death is a mystery to him. I think the author made a good choice in that respect. I have mixed feelings about how Nagorski wrote the character of Geli. He captured both a bubbliness and moodiness that I think Geli was capable of. But his portrait of Geli was not at all respectful to her memory. He depicts her cheating on her fiancee Emil and having an affair with a married man. It makes for a juicy novel, but I doubt she would have done that in real life. This author uses Otto Strasser's infamous "watersports" story , but he does manage to write about it without lapsing into gratuitous sleaze. JO:Is there an ideal reader to whom you write? If so, who is it? Even if you don’t have an ideal, who do you see as the ideal reader of your work? What sort of qualifications ought such a reader to have? Does he necessarily need to be “spiritual” or “religious”? Why or why not?And there’s also great wodges of unfictionalised historical exposition straight out of a boring history book :

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This evolving relationship between Geli and her uncle is laid out by Hansen in clumsy, stage-managed scenes. He lards his narrative with awkward exposition detailing Hitler's political machinations and he resorts to increasingly displayed in this author's earlier books ("Marietta in Ecstasy,""Nebraska") but also trivializes Hitler's historical crimes by dwelling, pruriently, on his private foibles. My impression of Hitler and his close-knit circle had always been based on the impression that they were a cool, impervious, testerone-injected group of well-discplined fanatics. What I failed to realize is that they were a collection of fussy, effiminate, unathletic (although always touting the aryan, athletic ideal) sniveling, whiny, self-absorbed, sexually confused pychopathological misfits. had a moist handshake and radiated "a fearsome seething and contempt." Of Hitler his sister observes: "The family always, always underestimated him. No wonder he was so distant." Mine rhymes with whittler which is an English word meaning one who complains a great deal. But you can call me Uncle Adolph.”Hello? are you asleep yet? I nearly was. As you see, this stuff could have been cut and pasted from some really dull textbook. And there’s much more… but I’ll spare you. It’s not like this is stuff you need to know to understand what’s going off in the life of Adolph, it’s all just noises off, and anyone with the merest grasp of German inter-war history can do without Ron’s history lectures. Need and obsessive desire, however, don’t imply love. For love to exist, the lover has to be able to consider, empathize with and fulfill the beloved’s own needs, as a separate individual. Hitler can’t do that. He “loves” his niece like a man who is incapable of real love. His idea of flirtation is bragging incessantly about himself. His idea of “affection” is engaging in perverse and demeaning sexual rituals. His idea of respect for women gives way to a fundamental misogyny and traditionalism that require them to serve him, and his idea of passion is possession and control of the object of his desire. and becoming a doctor. Her attitude toward her uncle is ambivalent: on one hand, she cherishes the power she exerts over him and resents his new friendship with Eva Braun; on the other, she knows her uncle has driven away RH:I have had some lousy ideas for novels but gradually as I talk about them to friends it becomes clear that I ought to abandon them and start over. Some people, of course, may think I've gone ahead and published some of my lousy ideas, but each seemed good and necessary to me. Basically an idea lodges in your head, gets competition from other ideas over the years, but ultimately commands my full attention. I try not to psychoanalyze my choices of subject matter. I can’t recall ever having a plot that headed in a surprising direction, probably because I stew over the whole shebang before I begin.

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Ron Hansen:Both Johns provided models of how one sanely lives a writer’s life. Both were very opinionated but tolerant of and even interested in differing points of view. Both wrote literary fiction that was also commercially viable. Something I’ve endeavored to do without comparable success. John Irving began as my teacher but became very much like an older brother to me. And perhaps above all, both so extravagantly praised my writing that I was encouraged to persevere. I was not immediately drawn into this book, thinking “Do I really want to know more about Hitler?��� But I read it in a couple of days. This book is well written plus a lot of things: romance, drama, history, pop-psychology, lifestyles of the rich and famous, mystery. The book is definitely at least R-rated, maybe X if you are timid about these things, but could be made PG-13 with some cutting and airbrushing. Ah, yes, there are the “Unspeakable things” that leave a lot to the imagination. No doubt such graphic scenes depicting Hitler as a sexual monster are meant to link a perverse sexual psychopathology with his abhorrent politics, but they end up distracting attention from Hitler's public crimes, crimes As the novel progresses, Hansen's Hitler inexplicably metamorphosizes from an awkward, self-conscious outsider into a charismatic politician, sought after by women, and worshiped by colleagues. His relationship with Geli

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niece to pose for him nude, molests her sexually and compels her to perform degrading acts. " You hate! You destroy!" Hansen's Geli screams at her uncle. "You'll do to Germany just RH:A handful of new stories in my collection She Loves Me Not are also located in my home state. Nebraska is my childhood and since I no longer live there it’s also my country of the imagination where things can be exaggerated, made bigger and bolder. In rating Hitler’s Niece I’m not going to wimp out with “It started out a two stars but ended up a four so I am giving it a three.” For me it really was a four star book most of the time. But I am still going to put it out on Bookswap where it might just pop up for someone else who is not sure about more Hitler. GR worked for me this time; I would never have heard of this book without GRs. Hansen is the author of nine novels, including his most recent A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion(2011), one collection of short stories, Nebraska(1989), and a collection of essays, A Stay Against Confusion: Essays on Faith and Fiction(2001). A second collection of his short stories She Loves Me Notis slated for publication later this year. Hitler demands to know at all times where Geli is, what she is doing and with whom. He retains the freedom to see other mistresses—including Eva Braun—but keeps a tight leash on Geli, discouraging other suitors. Once Emil Maurice, Hitler’s good-looking Corsican chauffeur begins dating Geli, Hitler finds a pretext to dismiss him. “She is with me,” Hitler snarls when another man, Schirach, asks his permission to take out Geli on a date. (244)