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:''For other individuals with the same surname, see Hanfstaengl family.'' Erna Hanfstaengl (1885–1981) was the elder sister of Ernst ("Putzi") Hanfstaengl and was an acquaintance of Adolf Hitler.〔See Erna as a girl: a portrait of Erna as a young girl, painted by Franz von Defregger and dated 1890. Hitler was born in 1889 so apparently Erna was about four years older than Hitler and about two years older than her brother Ernst (known as "Putzi"), who was born in 1887). ''See also'' ("''Conradi''")(stating that Erna was born in 1885) 〕〔''See, e.g.'', ''Time Magazine'', March 9, 1936 ("Let's Be Friends")(identifying Erna Hanfstaengl as an acquaintance of Hitler due to Hitler's friendship with her brother "Putzy" ).〕 She also befriended Unity Mitford, who lived with Erna for a period.〔In the spring of 1939, Unity (always short of money) moved in with Erna. At Erna's request, Unity asked Hitler (during lunch) if he would meet with Erna, whose objective was to reconcile Putzi (who had fled Germany in fear of his life) with Hitler. Hitler agreed and met with Erna in private, later taking tea with both Unity and Erna. ("''Lovell''")〕〔After a complicated episode in which Erna later sought to use Unity as an intermediary to collect Putzi's back pay after he fled Germany in fear of his life, Hitler became furious at the "money-grubbing Hanfstaengls" and ordered Unity to move out of Erna's house immediately; Unity was reportedly terrified by this command (and by Hitler's attendant fury) and did so promptly. She was reluctant even to contact Erna after her conversation with Hitler, and did so at first through an intermediary. She later that day had her things retrieved from Erna's house by a friend and spent the night in a hotel. ''Conradi'', pp. 231-232. ''Lovell'', p. 285. Erna at one time warned Unity to be more discreet in repeating and spreading idle Nazi party gossip that she heard, accusing Unity of acting as if the party were an operetta. ''Conradi'', p. 204.〕 ==Romantic involvement with Hitler== Hitler may have been romantically involved with Erna, who was reported to have been beautiful, charming, cultured and intelligent.〔 〕 In the days following the failed Beer Hall putsch, it was rumored that Hitler and Erna had sex while the former was hiding at a country house in Uffing.〔''See'' ("''Large''")〕〔Konrad Heiden, an early Hitler biographer, even repeats these rumors as factual in his historical work. These fantastic stories are clearly false, as Hitler was seriously injured in the putsch and was in no shape for such activities.〕〔Ernst Hanfstaengl also refutes these rumors in his memoirs. 〕 Rumors circulated in Munich in 1923 that Hitler and Erna were to be engaged; in the spring of 1923, the most widely read newspaper in Munich, the ''Münchener Neuste Nachrichten'', published a story to this effect.〔''Conradi'', p. 51. The story was completely false, but Hitler found it rather flattering and seemed pleased with the rumor. Hitler's response to the press inquiries was that his only true bride was, and would always be, the German people — a rather clear allusion to Jesus Christ.〕 It appears that the "tall and stately"〔 ''〕 Erna had simply been polite to Hitler and had shown courtesy to her brother's friend at their initial meeting in the early 1920s, and Hitler misinterpreted this as romantic affection. Gross claims that Hitler was in love with Erna, but that she considered the whole business to be a joke, and that she was amused at his attempts to court her. According to Gross, she was teased by her society friends about the unwanted affections shown by her "suitor" and made sure that she was never alone with him.〔''Gross'', p. 9-12.〕 In any event it appears that during the period 1922-23, Erna assisted her brother in his aspirations to become one of Hitler's inner circle, by furthering Hitler's introduction to people of wealth and social standing in Munich.〔She held coffee parties for Hitler in her home.〕 Several writers claim that, years later, Geli Raubal, Hitler's niece (and possibly his lover for a period, although many authorities〔There is a vast amount of speculation on the Hitler-Geli relationship. ''See, e.g''., ''Sage'', ''infra'' at p. 139 ("gossips could only guess" as to whether they actually made love); (The thesis of Machtan's book is that Hitler was homosexual) Christa Schroeder, one of Hitler's personal secretaries, was convinced that Geli and Hitler did not have sexual relations, ''Ibid''; one of Geli's friends and daughter of Hitler's photographer Heinrich Hoffmann, Henrietta von Schirach, was also confident that the two did not have sexual relations, ''But see'' the conclusions by psychoanalyst Walter C. Langer in The Mind of Adolf Hitler, which are largely followed by Hitler historians Waite and Victor (Hitler's sexual relationship with Geli was coprophagic or coprophiliac, ultimately based on his masochism). Toland states, rather paradoxically, that the "discreet love affair" between Hitler and Geli was "most likely never consummated," Other historians, like Kershaw, simply decline to take a position on the ground that the matter is simply too speculative. ''See'' (identifying three versions of the Hitler-Geli sexual relationship issue, ''i.e.'' (a) they were sexually intimate, (b) they were not sexually intimate and (c) Hitler enticed Geli to engage in sexual perversions that contributed to her suicide)〕 doubt their relationship was consummated) was jealous of Hitler's association with Erna.〔''Gross'', p. 9-11.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Erna Hanfstaengl」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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