In 1939, when war with Britain was declared, Unity went to the Englisher Garden, Munich's huge urban park, and shot herself in the head with a pearl-handled pistol given to her by Hitler for her protection. She did join Hitler's inner circle and for a number of months roomed with Erna Hanfstaengl (mentioned above).
For a time Hitler used her as a pawn to create jealousy with his mistress Eva Braun. She sat in the restaurant for months before she was invited to his table. Hitler, always of predictable habits, frequented the Osteria Bavaria Café. Unity Mitford, an English debutante and ardent supporter of the British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley and his Black Shirts, spent ten months stalking Adolf Hitler in Munich. He asked her to be his mistress and replace Eva Braun, but she insisted on marriage and the two parted. I had never been so happy as I was that night". She had another tryst with Hitler in 1931, about which she said, "I let everything happen. After being ignored for months, the young girl attempted to hang herself only to have her brother-in-law discover her and cut the rope. He proposed marriage but said his "duty and mission" consumed him and she would have to wait for him. The thirty-seven-year-old Adolf became infatuated with Mitzi, a sixteen-year-old Munich shop girl. Mitzi Reiter caught Hitler's eye in the late 1920's. Her brother defected to the US, eventually to become an advisor to FDR on the Nazis, and Erna conspired with Himmler to kidnap Hitler and negotiate a peace with the British from Paris. Both she and her brother later became disillusioned with Hitler and the Nazi Party. While her society friends would later tease her about her new "suitor", she was most probably out of his league. Whether they ever had a romantic involvement can be doubted. She repeatedly talked him out of taking his own life as he sat on the edge of a bed toying with a revolver. Immediately following his 1923 botched coup d'état (the Beer Hall Putsch), Hitler was spirited away in a car and hidden from authorities at a country house owned by the well-connected Hanfstaengl Family. He never approached her.Įrna Hanfstaengl may have been his next infatuation. But to him, she was a goddess, unapproachable until he would become a world-renowned artist and build her a fantasy mansion of his own design. However, the fact that after he rose to power thousands, if not millions, of German women adored and worshiped him cannot be doubted.Īs for the women who got close to him, suicide was a shockingly common occurrence.Īt eighteen-years-old he adored a young woman named Stephanie, whom he would see on her mother's arm strolling about the high-end quarters of Linz, Austria where Hitler lived with his mother and sister. A US Intelligence report claimed he practiced bizarre sexual practices, including urinating on women. Yet another housekeeper of Hitler's reported he was "perfectly normal in his relations with women". One housekeeper from his mountain house at Berghof claimed she knew he never had sex with his longtime mistress Eva Braun because she checked their sheets every morning and saw no evidence of lovemaking (yuck). Some historians claim Hitler had no capacity for love or human emotion and that he was a misogynist or even impotent. It is difficult for historians to ascertain details about Adolf Hitler's love life, as Hitler was very protective of his private life and almost no one who knew him felt they were his close confidants. Did all of Hitler's lovers kill themselves?
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