Alois Hitler
Alois Hitler
Born	7 June 1837(1837-06-07) Strones, Waldviertel, Lower Austria
Died	3 January 1903 (aged 65) Gasthaus Stiefler, Linz, Austria
Occupation	Customs officer
Spouse	Anna Glassl Franziska Matzelberger Klara Pölzl
Children	Alois Hitler, Jr. Angela Hitler Gustav Hitler Ida Hitler Otto Hitler Adolf Hitler Edmund Hitler Paula Hitler
Parents	Johann Georg Hiedler (officially) and Maria Anna Schicklgruber

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Birth

Hitler was born in the tiny rustic village of Strones in the Waldviertel, a hilly forested area in northwest Lower Austria just north of Vienna, to a 42-year-old unmarried peasant, Maria Anna Schicklgruber,^[1] whose family had lived in the area for generations. The day he was born, after Hitler was baptized at the nearby village of Döllersheim, the space for his father's name on the baptismal certificate was left blank and the priest wrote "illegitimate." Hitler was cared for by his mother in a house she shared at Strones with her elderly father Johannes Schicklgruber. Map of Waldviertel in northwestern Lower Austria. ... Map of Waldviertel in northwestern Lower Austria. ... Map of Lower Austria showing districts and the four quarters (Waldviertel in green, Weinviertel in red, Mostviertel in yellow and Industrieviertel in blue) Lower Austria (de: Niederösterreich) is one of the nine states or Bundesländer in Austria. ... For other uses, see Vienna (disambiguation). ... Maria Anna Schicklgruber (April 15, 1795 – January 7, 1847) was Adolf Hitlers paternal grandmother. ... This article is about the Christian religious act of Baptism. ... Döllersheim was Adolf Hitlers ancestral village in Austria. ...

Youth

Sometime later, Johann Georg Hiedler moved in with the Schicklgrubers and married Maria when Hitler was five. By the age of 10, Hitler had been sent to live with Hiedler's brother Johann Nepomuk Hiedler, who owned a farm in the nearby village of Spital. Hitler attended elementary school and took lessons in shoe-making from a local cobbler. When he was 13, he left the farm in Spital and went to Vienna as an apprentice cobbler, working there for about five years. In response to a recruitment drive by the Austrian government offering employment in the civil service to people from rural areas, Hitler joined the frontier guards (customs service) of the Ingland Finance Ministry in 1855 at the age of 18. In German history, Johann Georg Hiedler (28 September 1792, – 1857) was born to Martin Hiedler (17 November 1762 - 10 January 1829) and Anna Maria Goschl (August 23, 1760 - 7 December 1854). ... Johann von Nepomuk Hiedler, also known as Johann von Nepomuk Hüttler (March 19, 1807 - September 17, 1888), was a maternal great-grandfather and possibly also the paternal grandfather of Adolf Hitler. ... Primary or elementary education is the first years of formal, structured education that occurs during childhood. ... For other uses, see Farm (disambiguation). ... Cobbler may mean: a person who makes and repairs shoes and boots for a living. ... A customs duty is a tariff or tax on the import or export of goods. ...

Early career

Alois Hitler in the uniform of an Austrian customs official

Hitler made steady progress in the semi-military profession of a customs guard. The work involved frequent re-assignments and he served in a variety of places across Austria. By 1860, after five years' service, he reached the rank of Finanzwach Oberaufseher (a non-commissioned officer), while serving in the town of Wels, Austria. By 1864, after special training and examinations, he had advanced further and was serving in Linz, Austria. In 1875 he was an inspector of customs posted at Braunau. Download high resolution version (350x649, 31 KB)19th century photograph This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Download high resolution version (350x649, 31 KB)19th century photograph This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... A non-commissioned officer (sometimes noncommissioned officer), also known as an NCO or Noncom, is an enlisted member of an armed force who has been given authority by a commissioned officer. ... Wels (population of 56,478 as of 2001) is the second largest city of the state of Upper Austria, located in the north of Austria, upon the Traun River near Linz. ... This article is about the city of Linz in Austria. ... Braunau am Inn is a city in the Innviertel (River Inn area) of Upper Austria (Ober sterreich), the north-western province of Austria. ...

While his professional duties involved strict attention to (and application of) set rules, his private life seems to have flouted society's norms. In the late 1860s, he fathered an illegitimate child with a woman named Thelka (or perhaps Thekla) whom he did not marry and whose family name is lost to history.^{[citation needed]} Hitler was 36 when he married for the first time in 1873, and it may have been for money. Anna Glassl was a well-to-do, 50-year-old daughter of an official. Glassl was sick when Hitler married her and was either an invalid or became one shortly afterwards.

Name change to Alois Hitler

Schicklgruber means sump digger in the Waldviertel dialect. As a rising young junior customs official, Hitler used his birth name, but in the summer of 1876, 39 years old and well established in his career, he asked permission to use his step-father's family name. He appeared before the parish priest in Döllersheim and asserted that his father was Johann Georg Hiedler, who had married his mother and now wished to legitimize him. Hitler apparently did not disclose to the priest that Johann had been dead for almost 20 years. Three relatives appeared with Hitler as witnesses, one of whom was Johann Nepomuk Hiedler's son-in-law. The priest agreed to amend the records, the civil authorities automatically processed the church's decision, and Alois had a new name. The official change, registered at the government office in Mistelbach on January 6, 1877 transformed "Aloys Schicklgruber" into "Alois Hitler." It is not known who decided on the spelling of Hitler instead of Hiedler. It may have been the clerk in Mistelbach. Spellings were still being standardized at the time. This article is about sumps in general. ... Döllersheim was Adolf Hitlers ancestral village in Austria. ... In German history, Johann Georg Hiedler (28 September 1792, – 1857) was born to Martin Hiedler (17 November 1762 - 10 January 1829) and Anna Maria Goschl (August 23, 1760 - 7 December 1854). ... Mistelbach an der Zaya (Mistelbach on the (River) Zaya) is a town in the northeast of Austria in so called Lower Austria, one of Austrias nine Federal States. ... is the 6th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1877 (MDCCCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

Hitler's biological father

Historians have discussed four candidates:

• Johann Georg Hiedler, who in his lifetime was the step-father and later legally declared as the birth father.

• Johann Nepomuk Hiedler, Georg's brother and Hitler's step-uncle, who raised Hitler through adolescence and later willed him a considerable portion of his life savings but who (if he was the real father) never found it expedient to admit it publicly.

• Leopold Frankenberger, claimed by Hans Frank to have fathered Hitler when his mother Maria worked in the Frankenberger house as a maid in Graz, Austria.

• Salomon Mayer von Rothschild, claimed by various authors of dubious credibility (e.g. Hansjurgen Koehler, Walter C. Langer, Greg Hallett) to have fathered Hitler when his mother Maria worked in the Rothschild house as a maid in Vienna, Austria.

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Johann Georg Hiedler

Some historians surmise that Hitler's father really was Johann Georg Hiedler. An explanation for Hitler being sent to live on his uncle's farm as a child is that Hiedler and Maria were simply too poor to raise Hitler, or could not raise him as well as his uncle, or perhaps Maria's health was in decline (she died when he was 10). Unexplained is why Hiedler and Maria did not declare Hitler their legitimate son once they were legally married, or why Hiedler died without legitimizing his son and perpetuating his line of the family. Uncle may refer to: A family relationship, see Cousin chart A cry of surrender An idiom: Dutch uncle, a person who delivers stern lectures Uncle Sam, a national personification of the United States Uncle Tom, a pejorative term for a black person Uncle Tom Cobley, a British folk saying meaning...

Johann Nepomuk Hiedler

Historian Werner Maser suggests that Alois's father was Hiedler's brother, Johann Nepomuk, a married farmer who had an affair and then arranged to have his single brother Hiedler marry Hitler's mother Maria to provide a cover for Nepomuk's desire to assist and care for Hitler without upsetting his wife. This assumes Hiedler was willing to marry Maria in this situation, and Adolf Hitler biographer Joachim Fest thinks this is too contrived and unlikely to be true. Joachim C. Fest (December 8, 1926 – September 11, 2006) was a German journalist and author, best known in English-speaking countries for his work with Albert Speer while writing his memoirs and his biography of Adolf Hitler. ...

Leopold Frankenberger

Soon after Adolf Hitler became politically active in the 1920s, rumours spread that his ancestry was Jewish. His opponents found out his father had not originally been named Hitler, and nobody seemed to know who his paternal grandfather had been. What Adolf really thought about these rumours (as opposed to his public statements) is unknown. The 1920s is sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination...

Heinrich Himmler had the Gestapo investigate in 1942 and they are said to have turned up nothing. In Mein Kampf Hitler states his paternal grandfather was "a poor cottager" and writes implicitly as a German. Adolf Hitler considered his family German, and the fact they were Austrians was politics, not nationality. Heinrich Luitpold Himmler ( ; 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was commander of the Schutzstaffel (SS) and one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany and the Nazi hierarchy. ... The   (contraction of Geheime Staatspolizei: “secret state police”) was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. ... Mein Kampf (English translation: My Struggle) is a book by the German-Austrian politician Adolf Hitler, which combines elements of autobiography with an exposition of Hitlers National Socialist political ideology. ... This article is about the domestic group. ...

Hans Frank, in a confession to a priest while awaiting execution after the war, claimed that after having been asked by Adolf Hitler to investigate, he discovered Hitler's grandmother Maria had worked as a servant in Graz for a wealthy Jew named Leopold Frankenberger. Frank asserted that Maria got pregnant and returned to her native village of Strones to have the baby. Frank's testimony was widely believed in the 1950s, but by the 1990s, this claim was generally doubted by historians.^{[citation needed]} Ian Kershaw dismisses the Frankenberger story as a "smear" by Hitler's enemies, noting that all Jews had been expelled from Graz in the 15th century and were not allowed to return until the 1860s. No evidence has been found that Maria Schicklgruber ever lived in Graz. Hans Frank (May 23, 1900 – October 16, 1946) was a lawyer for the Nazi party during the 1920s and a senior official in Nazi Germany. ... This article is about religious workers. ... Leopold Frankenberger (d. ... For the band, see 1990s (band). ... Professor Sir Ian Kershaw (born April 29, 1943 in Oldham, Lancashire, England) is a British historian, noted for his biographies of Adolf Hitler. ...

It has been said that Alois Hitler's grandson William Patrick Hitler, upon leaving Germany in the 1930s, threatened to blackmail his uncle Adolph by telling the press that the senior Alois's father was Leopold Frankenberger.^[2] William Patrick Hitler (later Stuart-Houston) (born March 12, 1911 in Liverpool, England, United Kingdom – died July 1987 in Patchogue, New York, USA), nicknamed Willy (or Paddy Hitler by Irish-Americans), was the nephew of Adolf Hitler. ... For other uses, see Blackmail (disambiguation). ...

Salomon Mayer von Rothschild

Thyssen and Koehler, for example, claim that Chancellor Dollfuss had ordered the Austrian police to conduct a thorough investigation into the Hitler family. As a result of this investigation, a secret document proved that Maria Anna Schicklgruber was living in Vienna at the time she conceived her son. At that time, she was employed as a servant in the home of Baron Salomon Mayer von Rothschild. As soon as the family discovered her pregnancy, she was sent back to her home in Spital where Hitler was born. If it is true that one of the Rothschilds is the real father of Alois Hitler, it would make Adolf a quarter Jewish. According to these sources, Adolf Hitler knew of the existence of this document and the evidence it contained. In order to obtain it, he precipitated events in Austria and initiated the assassination of Dollfuss. According to this story, he failed to obtain the document at that time, since Dollfuss had secreted it and had told Schuschnigg of its whereabouts so that, in the event of his death, the independence of Austria would remain assured. This information came from the high-level Gestapo officer, Hansjurgen Koehler. In 1940, Koehler published a book under the title Inside the Gestapo. Hitler's Shadows over the World.^[3] He writes about the investigations into Hitler's background carried out by the Austrian Chancellor, Dolfuss, in the family files of Hitler. Koehler actually viewed a copy of the Dolfuss documents which were given to him by Heydrich, the overlord of the Nazi Secret Service. The file, he wrote, "caused such havoc as no file in the world ever caused before."^[4] Engelbert Dollfuss. ... Maria Anna Schicklgruber (15 April 1795 – 7 January 1847) was Adolf Hitlers paternal grandmother. ... For other uses, see Vienna (disambiguation). ... Salomon Mayer von Rothschild Salomon Mayer von Rothschild (September 9, 1774 – July 28, 1855) was a German-born banker in the Austrian Empire and the founder of the Viennese branch of the prominent Mayer Amschel Rothschild family. ... This article is about human pregnancy in biological females. ... Hitler redirects here. ... Assassin and Assassins redirect here. ... National Socialism redirects here. ...

Other factors

Hitler may have been influenced to change his name for money. Maser reports that in 1876, Franz Schicklgruber, the administrator of Hitler's mother's estate, transferred a large sum of money (230 gulden) to Hitler. This related to a family decision involving changing Alois' last name from Schicklgruber to Hitler in accordance with his mother's alleged wishes when she died in 1847. Moreover, six months after Nepomuk died, Hitler made a major real estate purchase inconsistent with the salary of a customs official with a pregnant wife.

Shame seems to have played no part. Smith states that Hitler openly admitted having been born out of wedlock before and after the name change. He had done well by local standards and was not hampered by his name. The limiting factor was education. Hitler eventually rose to full inspector of customs and could go no higher because he lacked the necessary school degrees.

Whether Hitler's father was either of the two brothers has little historical interest except for making his son Adolf Hitler's ancestry more incestuous since his mother Klara Pölzl's maternal grandfather was Nepomuk. Incest is defined as sexual intercourse between closely related persons. ... Klara Hitler Klara Hitler, born Klara Pölzl (August 12, 1860 - December 21, 1907), was the mother of Adolf Hitler. ...

Marriages

Not long after marrying his first wife Anna, Hitler began an affair with 19-year-old Franziska "Franni" Matzelberger, one of the young female servants employed at the Braunau inn (the Pommer Inn, house #219), where he was renting the top floor as a lodging. Smith states that Alois had numerous affairs in the 1870s, resulting in his sick wife Anna initiating legal action; on 7 November 1880 Alois and Anna separated by mutual agreement. Matzelberger became 43-year-old Hitler's girlfriend, but the two could not marry since under Roman Catholic canon law, divorce was not permitted. Matzelberger demanded that the "servant girl" Klara Pölzl find another job, and Hitler sent Polzl away. This article is about the act of adultery. ... is the 311th day of the year (312th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1880 (MDCCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... This article is about a female partner. ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... Divorce or dissolution of marriage is the ending of a marriage before the death of either spouse. ... Klara Hitler Her son Adolf as both a baby and an adult Klara Hitler born Klara Pölzl (August 12, 1860 - December 21, 1907), was the mother of Adolf Hitler. ...

In 1876, three years after Hitler married his first wife Anna, he had hired Polzl as a household servant. She was the 16-year-old granddaughter of Hitler's step-uncle (and possible father or biological uncle) Nepomuk. If Nepomuk was Hitler's father, Polz was Hitler's niece. If his father was Johann Georg, she was his first cousin once removed.

In January 1882, Matzelberger gave birth to Hitler's illegitimate son, also named Alois, but since they were not married, the child's last name was Matzelberger's, making him "Alois Matzelberger." Hitler kept Matzelberger as his wife while his lawful wife grew sicker and (more than a year after the birth of Matzelberger's child) died. The next month, at a ceremony in Braunau with fellow custom officials as witnesses, Hitler, 45, married Matzelberger, 21. He then legitimized his son as Alois Hitler, Jr.. Alois Hitler, Jr. ...

Late career

Hitler was secure in his profession and no longer an ambitious climber. Alan Bullock described Alois as a "hard, unsympathetic, and short-tempered" man. For reasons unknown to historians, Matzelberger went to Vienna to give birth to Angela Hitler. Matzelberger, still only 23, acquired a lung disorder and became too ill to function. She was moved to Ranshofen, a small village near Braunau. With no one but him to take care of the house or the children, Hitler brought back Klara Pölzl, Matzelberger's earlier rival.^{[citation needed]} Matzelberger died in Ranshofen on August 10, 1884 at the age of 23. For other uses, see Vienna (disambiguation). ... Adolf Hitler with his halfsister Angela Angela Raubal Hamitsch, born Angela Hitler (July 28, 1883 - October 30, 1949), was the elder half-sister of Adolf Hitler. ... Human respiratory system The lungs flank the heart and great vessels in the chest cavity. ... is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ...

Polzl was soon pregnant by Hitler. Smith writes that if Hitler had been free to do as he wished, he would have married Polzl immediately but because of the affidavit concerning his paternity, Hitler was now legally (and likely in fact) Polzl's uncle, too close to marry. He submitted an appeal to the church for a humanitarian waiver, not mentioning Polzl was already pregnant.

Hitler was immune to what the local people thought of him since his salary came from the finance ministry and probably intended to keep Polzl as his "housekeeper" if permission was refused. It came, and on 7 January 1885 a wedding was held early in the morning at Hitler's rented rooms on the top floor of the Pommer Inn. A meal was served for the few guests and witnesses. Hitler then went to work for the rest of the day. Even Polzl found the wedding to be a short ceremony. Throughout the marriage, she continued to call him uncle. is the 7th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1885 (MDCCCLXXXV) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...

On 17 May 1885, five months after the wedding, Polzl gave birth to her first child, Gustav. A year later, on 25 September 1886, she gave birth to a daughter, Ida. Son Otto followed Ida in 1887, but he died shortly after birth. Later that year, diphtheria tragically struck the Hitler household, resulting in the deaths of both Gustav and Ida. Polzl had been Hitler's wife for three years, and all her children were dead, but Hitler still had the children from his relationship with Matzelberger, Alois Jr. and Angela. is the 137th day of the year (138th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1885 (MDCCCLXXXV) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...

On April 20, 1889, she gave birth to another son, Adolf. He was a sickly child, and Polzl fretted over him. Hitler had little interest in child rearing and left it all to Polzl. When not at work he was either in a tavern or busy with his hobby, keeping bees. In 1892, Hitler was transferred from Braunau to Passau. He was 55, Polzl 32, Alois Jr. 10, Angela 9 and Adolf was three years old. In 1894, Hitler was re-assigned to Linz. Polzl had just given birth to Edmund, so it was decided she and the children would stay in Passau for the time being. is the 110th day of the year (111th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Hitler redirects here. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Beekeeping (or apiculture) is the maintenance of one or more hives of honeybees. ... The Poestlingberg church in Linz. ...

Retirement

In February 1895, Hitler purchased a house on a nine acre (36,000 m²) plot in Hafeld near Lambach, approximately 30 miles southwest of Linz. The farm was called the Rauscher Gut. Hitler fantasized he would spend his retirement as a "gentleman farmer," indulging in beekeeping and living an easy rural life.^{[citation needed]} He moved his family to the farm and retired on 25 June 1895 at the age of 58 after 40 years in the customs service. A lifetime as a civil servant had made Hitler forget what farm life was like. He found taking care of nine acres (36,000 m²) to be more work than he had thought it would be, and he didn't want it. The land went uncultivated, and the value of the property declined. Far from being his dream retirement home, the Rauscher Gut was a money-losing nightmare. is the 176th day of the year (177th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ...

Meanwhile, the family was still growing. On 21 January 1896 Paula was born. With no workplace to escape to, Hitler was often home with his family. He had five children ranging in age from infancy to 14, and being involved with their daily life annoyed him. Smith suggests he yelled at the children almost continually and made long visits to the local tavern where he began to drink more than he used to. is the 21st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar). ... Paula Hitler. ...

It has been said he behaved like a self-important tyrant at home. Robert G. L. Waite noted, "Even one of his closest friends admitted that Alois was 'awfully rough' with his wife [Klara] and 'hardly ever spoke a word to her at home.'" If Hitler was in a bad mood, he picked on the older children or Klara herself, in front of them. Mostly, he used his voice to lash out and hurt or humiliate, but some sources claim he beat young Adolf.^{[citation needed]} After Hitler and his oldest son Alois Jr. had a climactic and violent argument, Alois Jr. left home, and the elder Alois swore he would never give the boy a penny of inheritance beyond what the law required.

Edmund (the youngest of the boys) died of measles on 2 February 1900. If there was to be a family legacy, Adolf would have to carry it. Alois wanted his son to similarly seek a career in the civil service. However, Adolf had become so alienated from his father that he was repulsed by whatever Alois wanted. Where his father glorified the role of the civil servant, Adolf sneered at the thought of a lifetime spent enforcing petty rules. Alois tried to browbeat his son into obedience while Adolf did his best to be the opposite of whatever his father wanted. While Alois imagined his son as a practical, non-religious, non-political, sensible, realistic, stable and industrious civil servant, Adolf became lazy, romantic, idealistic and fantasy-oriented.^{[citation needed]} He dreamt first of being a priest, then an artist. is the 33rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Äž: For the film, see: 1900 (film). ... Various Religious symbols, including (first row) Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Bahai, (second row) Islamic, tribal, Taoist, Shinto (third row) Buddhist, Sikh, Hindu, Jain, (fourth row) Ayyavazhi, Triple Goddess, Maltese cross, pre-Christian Slavonic Religion is the adherence to codified beliefs and rituals that generally involve a faith in a spiritual...

Death

On the morning of 3 January 1903, Hitler went to the Gasthaus Stiefler as usual to drink his morning glass of wine. He was offered the newspaper and promptly collapsed. He was taken to an adjoining room and a doctor was summoned but Alois Hitler died at the inn, probably from a pleural hemorrhage, aged 65. is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... For other uses, see Wine (disambiguation). ... The pleura is a thin membrane that lines the chest cavity and surrounds the lungs. ...

References

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Additional sources

• Marc Vermeeren, "De jeugd van Adolf Hitler 1889-1907 en zijn familie en voorouders". Soesterberg, 2007, 420 blz. Uitgeverij Aspekt. ISBN = 978-90-5911-606-1
• Bullock, Alan Hitler: A Study in Tyranny 1953 ISBN 0-06-092020-3
• Fest, Joachim C. Hitler Verlag Ullstein, 1973 ISBN 0-15-141650-8
• Kershaw, Ian Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris W W Norton, 1999 ISBN 0-393-04671-0
• Maser, Werner Hitler: Legend, Myth and Reality Penguin Books Ltd 1973 ISBN 0-06-012831-3
• Smith, Bradley F. Adolf Hitler: His Family, Childhood and Youth Hoover Instituted, 1967 ISBN 0-8179-1622-9
• Waite, Robert G. L. The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler Basic Books 1977 ISBN 0-465-06743-3
• Payne, Robert The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler Praeger Publishers 1973 LCCN 72-92891
• Koehler, Hansjurgen Inside the Gestapo. Hitler's Shadows over the World Pallas Publ. Co., Ltd., London, 1940
• Langer, Walter C. The Mind of Adolf Hitler Basic Books Inc., New York, 1972 ISBN 0-465-04620-7 ASIN: B000CRPF1K

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External links

• Alois Hitler's last house in Leonding, Austria
• Ancestry of Adolf Hitler - Who was Adolf's grandfather?
• The Straight Dope: Was Hitler part Jewish?

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