S5 Ep46: The Mysterious Death of Hitler's Niece
Crimes of the Centuries
Amber Hunt and Audioboom
4.7 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In 1931, Adolf Hitler’s 23-year-old niece, Geli Raubal, was found dead in the Führer's Munich apartment. Authorities ruled it a suicide. But the evidence didn’t settle easily—and neither did the silence that followed. Some journalists tried to make sense of the story but had trouble as the case files were quickly sealed. So they reported on emerging contradictions in the evidence and disagreements among witnesses. Within a few years, the people who tried to challenge Hitler’s version of events would pay a devastating price.
"Crimes of the Centuries" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab exploring forgotten crimes from times past that made a mark and helped change history. You can get early and ad-free episodes and more over at www.grabbagcollab.com
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| 0:00.0 | A note before we begin, this is the final episode of Season 5 of Crimes of the Centuries. |
| 0:05.8 | It's strange to think back on how it all began in a closet during a pandemic. |
| 0:10.1 | I want to thank you all for your continued support and remind you that you can be even more |
| 0:14.3 | supportive over at Grabbaggcollab.com. |
| 0:16.9 | We're barreling right into Season 6 next week. |
| 0:19.6 | I have more than 205 topics on my still-to-tackle list of episode ideas. |
| 0:25.1 | So if you all keep listening, we've got a long way to go yet. |
| 0:33.6 | Some crimes are so heartbreaking or shocking that they change laws, change society, or even |
| 0:40.7 | earn the label, Crime of the Century. |
| 0:44.1 | But the stories that made headlines in decades past aren't necessarily remembered today. |
| 0:50.2 | I'm Amber Hunt, a journalist, and author, and in each episode of this show, I'll examine a case |
| 0:55.8 | that's maybe lesser known today, but was huge when it happened. |
| 1:01.5 | This is Crimes at the Centuries. |
| 1:18.6 | Three men were traveling to a political rally to be held in Hamburg, Germany. They had spent the night in a Nuremberg Hotel and had already checked out and left when the manager of the hotel got an urgent phone call from Munich. |
| 1:26.6 | It was Saturday, September 19, |
| 1:29.5 | 1931. The three men in the car were the up-and-coming politician Adolf Hitler, a man who had only |
| 1:36.3 | recently left prison to found his own party, Heinrich Hoffman, his friend and personal photographer, |
| 1:42.6 | and driver Julius Shrek, leader of Hitler's |
| 1:45.9 | Protection Squad. The story goes that Hitler had told Hoffman the day before, just as they were |
| 1:51.9 | leaving his apartment in Munich for the campaign swing, but he had a bad feeling about the day. |
| 1:57.6 | Hoffman had reassured him that all was well. Hitler had seemed distracted, reluctant to leave, |
| 2:03.9 | but there were speeches to give, crowds to work, power to consolidate. While driving north to |
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