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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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 In a recent interview with Mr. Hansen, Dappled Thingshad a chance to speak with the novelist about his work, its connection to his faith and to his vocation as husband and man of the cloth (he was ordained to the permanent diaconate in 2007), and his thoughts on the art of fiction in general. 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) Many if not all these books are now a fixed and vital part of the Catholic literary landscape. So popular and important is Hansen as a writer that it’s fair to say that for many budding Catholic writers, Hansen titles invariably share shelf space with Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Spark, O’Connor, Percy and theother usual suspects.

Springtime for Hitler, in Love With His Niece

Fortunately for Catholics and non-Catholics alike, Nebraska-born and Catholic-raised novelist Ron Hansen dismissed reports on the death of Catholic fiction as greatly exaggerated. This book is outrageous. It is disturbing, as it is supposed to be. This novel follows Hitler's early years and his perverted relationship with his niece that ultimately resulted in her death either by suicide or Hitler's hand. In an apparent effort to convey Geli's point of view, Hansen writes much of this novel from a deliberately naïve perspective. The problem with this approach is that Hitler and his Nazi henchmen emerge, in the first

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JO:The notion of “Catholic Fiction” is a slippery one---because its representatives can include everyone from J.R.R. Tolkien to Walker Percy (not to mention everyone from Chaucer to Ron Hansen). Considering the world of difference that exists between Bilbo Baggins and Binx Bolling, though, how do you define this term---“Catholic Fiction”---and how do you understand yourself as a Catholic writer in this mode?In the end though Geli at the young age of twenty three commits suicide however the author gives a very graphic view that it was Hitler who had killed her and not Geli herself. We then get to read just how far the Nazis are willing to go to cover up this scandal and protect there Fuhur and the Nazi Party. The book also gives a very good insight into the mantipilative, hard boiled mind of Adolf Hitler. 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 The relationship between Hitler and Geli Raubal -- the daughter of his half-sister, Angela -- has long been the subject of speculation among biographers and historians seeking a psychosexual explanation for the sources of the

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Becoming Hitler’s companion, caretaker, maid and eventually his mistress, Geli catches a glimpse of the inner workings of the Nazi party and its key players’ rise to power. Above all, Hitler’s Niece shows us, up close and personal, how a psychopath capable of genocide “falls in love.” Even after her death, Hitler called Geli the love of his life. Neither Eva Braun, his doting life companion, nor any other woman could compete with his obsession with Geli. 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, crimesMy 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. Wasn't there also a book out called Hitler & Geli ? Maybe it's just me, but i thought i saw a book with that title in the library once. Cheers. As you can tell from my screen name, my favorite person to study is Hitler's niece, Geli Raubal. I once wrote a play about her, and since then I have always had an eye open for other works about her. In case someone else is interested in literature based on Geli's life, here is a (short) list of novels I have found, in which Geli Raubal is a character:

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portion of the book, as bizarrely comic figures, narcissistic oddballs, whose biggest sins are egomania and self-absorption. Hitler's idea of flirtation is to boast about himself and his destiny, while "Doktor 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’m sorry if I inadvertently implied that the two quotations Mr. Hansen notes occurred in proximity. The word "here" referred to the book, not the scene. Both, however, are examples of the prevailing tone in Hitler’s Niece, a novel he claims he wrote for purposes of "education." But if discretion is also a function of education, we may learn the wisdom of a phrase that’s recently entered the contemporary vernacular: "Don’t Go There." On the other hand, the humanizing process at work in Hitler’s Nieceis even more unsettling as we jump forward to Geli’s perception of her uncle as "affectionate, softhearted and helpless." Of course, Hansen intends this to be ironic and Geli finds out how wrong she is long before her lover presses a gun to her chest. But there you have it: Hitler as an awkward forty-plus year-old adolescent. Attached to his "diffidence," Geli accepts her increasingly well-to-do uncle’s offers of financial assistance and eventually moves in with him. Unfortunately, all is not well in their cozy nine-room inglenook. The man who mesmerizes stadiums shouts, "We have no peace!" like Ralph Kramden in "The Honeymooners." Monsters have feelings, too, but when Geli comforts the poor boy who’s sobbing about his family, "They don’t love me! I need love!," it’s too much.JO:Your wife Bo Caldwell is also a writer, of course. What particular challenges are there to being married to another writer? What are the benefits? Do you find you mutually inform one another in your work on any level? Hitler's Niece by Ron Hansen is a historical fiction novel following the life of Angelika Marie Raubal known as "Geli," the niece of Adolf Hitler who was found dead in Hitler's apartment in 1931 when she was only twenty-three-years old. Just for fun, here is a picture of the real Geli Raubal, the lady who inspired all these stories....