>>17800643Everything you've said is true, but I understand that his control over her had limits; after all, the whole niece affair happened before he was appointed chancellor. He was a jealous and possessive man, but all that power stemmed from the fact that she lived under his roof (a nice Munich apartment) and that Geli's mother willingly worked for him. She could have run away earlier, but probably didn't because, who would? However, at some point, the situation became intolerable for her. Those who witnessed the development of that relationship speculated that at first the niece, a young and impressionable girl, even seemed flattered by Hitler's attentions, but then, naturally, she grew bored with the tedious situation. I'm sure that if one day she had run away with a boyfriend to Austria or the UK, then Adolf, powerful as he was, wouldn't have been able to do much. But the Germans of that time were dramatic to the core (Goethe's fault), especially the women, so the only solution she saw at that moment was to blow her brains out.