Fabiano Massimi publishes with Albin Michel his first novel, "The Angel of Munich", where he tells in the form of fiction a forgotten story.
The author returns to the mysterious death of a young German girl in 1931. Who happens to be the niece of a certain Adolf Hitler.
The novel opens in Munich, in 1931. In the middle of OktoberFest, the Oktoberfest, the young Angela Raubal, 23, is found dead.
Next to her, there is a pistol.
Investigators conclude a suicide, the case is quickly closed and the body cremated.
However, witnesses assure that his face was damaged, that they saw traces of beatings.
And that she had just quarreled with her uncle, a certain Adolf Hitler.
The two, it is said, even had a secret relationship.
This is the plot of the first novel by Italian Fabiano Massimi,
The Angel of Munich
, published by Albin Michel and of which Europe 1 is a partner.
Important archival work
"The author spent three years researching. Being a librarian, he knew perfectly well how to take them to the largest libraries in Europe to find everything that had been written about this woman, who was totally swept away. afterwards, ”explains Anne Michel, its editor.
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