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Though with "Hitler's Secret Loves" Le Journal definitely failed to deliver the goods, it did scrape Adolf Hitler deeply on the raw. On a table in his bedroom, in a silver frame with fresh roses nodding over it is a picture of Greta Granbald.
"His dearly beloved niece! She died in an automobile accident." strapping Nazi friends of Bachelor Hitler will murmur— uneasily. Greta is mystery. Le Journal implied that Uncle Adolf fell in love with his niece in 1929 in Munich and that she was made to appear to have shot and killed herself accidentally by "purists" of the Party. Says Le Journal: "Hitler, not yet the absolute master of German justice, bowed to the accidental version. For a long time he was shaken. He finally got hold of himself, but he never forgave. On June 30, 1934. the purists suspected of having 'suicided' the young girl fell at the side of Roehm and Heines. But vengeance, while it soothes the rest of the dead, doesn't calm the grief of the living. The image of sweet Greta has never deserted the closed heart of Reichsführer Hitler."