Alois was often home with his family. Those closest to Hitler claim that the man had apparent intimacy issues and likely did not want to procreate. He was wounded in January 1943 during the Battle of Stalingrad,[59] and Friedrich Paulus asked Hitler for an airplane to evacuate Raubal to Germany. Matzelsberger demanded that the "servant girl" Klara find another job, and Hitler sent Pölzl away. She sold the house in Leonding and relocated with young Adolf and Paula to an apartment in Linz, where they lived frugally.

[57], When the NSDAP won 107 seats in the Reich parliament in 1930, the Times Union in Albany, NY, published a statement of Alois Jr.[58]. Udolph, Jürgen Udolph & Fitzek, Sebastian (2005). Film looking at the descendants of the most powerful figures in the Nazi regime. Mrs. Brigid Hitler, the wife of Adolf Hitler’s stepbrother Alois, says goodbye to her son William Patrick Hitler outside the Astor Hotel in New York City. The resulting conversation was the only filmed interview she ever gave and was broadcast as part of a programme named Tyranny: The Years of Adolf Hitler. After her death, Loret also found paintings in his birth mother’s attic that had been signed by the dictator. In May 1945, five of Hitler's relatives were arrested, his first cousins, Maria, Johann and Eduard Schmidt, along with Maria's husband Ignaz Koppensteiner, their son Adolf, and Johann Schmidt Jr., son of Maria and Eduard's deceased brother Johann. She told them the Russians had confiscated her house in Austria, the Americans had expropriated her Vienna apartment and that she was taking English lessons. Then, explore these 31 facts about World War II that you can’t find in history books. Film looking at the descendants of the most powerful figures in the Nazi regime. Before the birth of Adolf Hitler, the family surname “Hitler” had many variations of the name that were often used almost interchangeably. He married another woman, Hedwig Heidemann (or Hedwig Mickley[25]), in 1916. “I was designated to approach him.”. He also noticed an ominous resemblance to Hitler in photographs. Johann Georg was the stepfather of Alois Hitler, who was Adolf Hitler's father, and Johann Nepo… On 14 September 1903[22][23] Angela Hitler, Adolf's half-sister, married Leo Raubal (11 June 1879 – 10 August 1910), a junior tax inspector, and on 12 October 1906 she gave birth to a son, Leo. [citation needed], According to David Gardner, author of the Last of the Hitlers: "They didn't sign a pact, but what they did is, they talked amongst themselves, talked about the burden they’ve had in the background of their lives, and decided that none of them would marry, none of them would have children. He was dictator of Germany, holding the titles Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and served as head of state as Führer und Reichskanzler from 1934 to 1945. At that time, his name was Alois Hiller. During the spring of 1945, after the destruction of Dresden in the massive bomb attack of 13/14 February, Adolf relocated Angela to Berchtesgaden to avoid her being captured by the Soviets. The identity of the biological father of Alois is disputed. According to various interpretations, Adolf disliked the thought of a career spent enforcing petty rules, and was perhaps so alienated from his father that he was repulsed by whatever Alois wanted. In 1877, 20 years after the death of Johann Georg and almost 30 years after the death of Maria, Alois was legally declared to have been Johann Georg's son. The treaty imposed economic sanctions and levied large reparations on the country.
In 1939, he went on to join the French army against the Germans in World War II. His older son, William Patrick, stayed with Alois and his new family during his early trips to Weimar Republic Germany in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Whether Hitler's children actually existed remains to be proven, but one French woman claims a 1917 romance with the Führer ended with an illegitimate son. [8] He married his first wife in 1824, but she died in childbirth five months later. Getty ImagesSeaman First Class William Patrick Hitler, 34-year-old nephew of the late unlamented Nazi dictator, is shown (left), as he received his discharge from the U. S. Navy in the Fargo building Separation Center at Boston. Adolf Hitler’s reign of terror ended in 1945, but his bloodline may not have. Additionally, Alexander, Louis, and Brian Stuart-Houston, who have taken up residence on Long Island. Nothing remains of the house or those that surrounded it, and the area was eventually cleared and grassed over. But I don’t want to have anything to do with it. The Stuart-Houston brothers are directly descended from Hitler’s half-brother, Alois Jr., on his father’s side. Washington Post/Alexander Historical AuctionsThe photograph of Adolf Hitler and Rosa Bernile Nienau at his retreat in 1933, sold by Alexander Historical Auctions in Maryland. Johann Nepomuk arranged to change the surname of Alois to "Hitler" and to have Johann Georg declared the biological father of Alois in 1876. She was relocated to Ranshofen, a small village near Braunau. Alois Hitler died in 1903, leaving Klara a government pension.

Johann Nepomuk became a relatively prosperous farmer and was married to Eva Maria Decker (1792–1873), who was fifteen years his senior. [20] Despite continued medical treatment by Dr. Bloch, Klara's condition did not improve and in October, he told Adolf her condition was hopeless.

Bernile was allegedly Jewish. What is it like to have grown up with a name that immediately raises images of genocide? Wikimedia CommonsA painting by Hitler with his signature at the bottom right, similar to what was found in Charlotte’s attic. CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (, National Political Institutes of Education, Learn how and when to remove this template message, "Zeitgeschichte/Hitler-Abstammung: Dichte Inzucht", "OSS Psychological Profile of Hitler, Part Four", "Is Jean-Marie Loret Hitler's long-lost son? By 1907, Klara had become very ill due to breast cancer. A perhaps simpler explanation is that he pitied the ten-year-old Alois after the death of the boy's mother Maria, as it could hardly have been a suitable life for a ten-year-old child to be raised by an itinerant miller. 1837) to Anna Glasl-Hörer has been excluded, as have any marriages that may have occurred after 1945. [44] The experience reinforced his passionate German patriotism and he was shocked by Germany's capitulation in November 1918. Angela and Adolf became estranged after she disapproved of Adolf's relationship with Eva Braun, but eventually re-established communication during the war. At the beginning of the First World War, Adolf Hitler was a resident of Munich and volunteered to serve in the Bavarian Army as an Austrian citizen.

The remaining descendants of Adolf Hitler are Peter Raubal and Heiner Hochegger, who both currently live in Austria. The question, “did Hitler have children,” is to some still in contention. [74][better source needed] Loret married several times, and had as many as nine children. She talked mostly about Hitler's childhood.

How do they live with the weight of their ancestors' crimes? For starters, historians generally maintain that Hitler did not have children with his partner and short-lived wife, Eva Braun.

After her death, Pölzl remained in Hitler's home as housekeeper.[19]. Matzelsberger became the 43-year-old Hitler's girlfriend, but the two could not marry since by Roman Catholic canon law divorce is not permitted. Following the end of World War II, however, rumors spread that a secret child did exist. Koppensteiner was arrested by the Soviets on the basis that he "approved of [Hitler's] criminal plans against the USSR." Bernile was allegedly Jewish. After the US military rejected him because of his infamous name, he wrote a letter directly to President Roosevelt who granted him entry to the U.S. Navy (once he passed an FBI check). In her memoirs, Bridget Dowling claims that Adolf Hitler lived with them in Liverpool from 1912 to 1913 while he was on the run to avoid being conscripted in his native Austria-Hungary, but historians dismiss this story as a fiction invented to make the book more appealing to publishers. Angela's daughters, Geli and Elfriede, accompanied their mother when she became Hitler's housekeeper in 1925; Geli Raubal was 17 at the time and would spend the next six years in close contact with her half-uncle. Adolf's other nephew, Leo Rudolf Raubal, was conscripted into the Luftwaffe. I will not do anything about it. It is likely Hitler was accepted into the Bavarian army either simply because nobody had asked him whether he was a German citizen when he first volunteered or because the recruiting authorities were happy to accept any volunteer and simply did not care what Hitler's nationality was, or because he might have told the Bavarian authorities that he intended to become a German citizen. Alois wanted his son Adolf to seek a career with the civil service. A year later, on 25 September 1886, she gave birth to a daughter, Ida. Legally, Johann Georg Hiedler, an itinerant miller, was the step-father of Alois Schicklgruber (later Alois Hitler), and Johann Georg's brother Johann Nepomuk Hiedler was therefore the step-uncle of Alois. Brigid Hitler, the wife of Adolf Hitler’s stepbrother Alois, says goodbye to her son William Patrick Hitler outside the Astor Hotel in New York City. Angela married Leo Raubal Sr. (1879–1910). Here he is pictured again with Bernile. Read about our approach to external linking. [notes 4] Permission was granted, and on 7 January 1885 a wedding was performed in Hitler's rented rooms on the top floor of the Pommer Inn. Wikimedia CommonsAdolf Hitler and wife Eva Braun.