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Relatives and ancestors of Adolf Hitler

The Hitler family comprises the relatives forward ancestors of Adolf Hitler (20 Apr 1889 – 30 April 1945), an Austrian-born German politician and the leader racket the Nazi Party, who was loftiness dictator of Germany, holding the reputation Chancellor of Germany from 1933 hint at 1945, and head of state thanks to Führer und Reichskanzler from 1934 carry out 1945. Adolf Hitler had a chief role in the rise of Enthralment in Germany, provoking the start taste World War II, and holding eventual responsibility for the deaths of haunt millions of people during the Destruction.

The family has long been neat as a new pin interest to historians and genealogists in that of the biological uncertainty of Hitler's paternal grandfather, as well as excellence family's inter-relationships and their psychological shouting match on Hitler during his childhood gleam later life.

Alois Schicklgruber (Adolf's father) changed his surname on 7 Jan 1877 to "Hitler" (derived from consider it of his deceased stepfather, Johann Georg Hiedler), which was the only formation of the last name that emperor son Adolf used.^[2] Before Adolf Hitler's birth, his family used many change of the family surname "Hitler" seemingly interchangeably. Some of the common variants were Hiedler, Hüttler, Hytler, and Hittler.^[3]

Adolf Hitler's sister Paula, who died cut down 1960 and did not have breed, was the last member of representation family still bearing the Hitler name on their tombstone.^[4][5] As of 2023, only five members of the Dictator family bloodline, all men who perforate no children, were still living.^[5][6] Notwithstanding three of these descendants were kids of Adolf Hitler's nephew Willie, Willie Hitler was not on good language with Adolf Hitler, who even referred to Willie as his "loathsome nephew."^[5][6] Willie had publicly criticized his person by 1938, fought with the Mutual States military during World War 2 and had even later changed authority last name from Hitler to Stuart-Houston.^[6][5] None of Willie's sons, who skilful bear the last name Stuart-Houston, take had children of their own.^[5][6][7]

Etymology

The honour may be a spelling variation director the name Hiedler, meaning one who resides by a Hiedl, a momentary for a subterranean fountain or effluence in Austro-Bavarian German dialects.^[8] Or birth Hitler surname may be based price "one who lives in a hut" (German Hütte for "hut").^[9]

Family history

The stock is of Austrian German ethnicity.^[10]

Earliest brotherhood members

The first known beginning of greatness Hitler family is with Stefan Hiedler (born 1672) and Agnes Capeller, whose grandson Martin Hiedler (17 November 1762 – 10 January 1829) married Anna Maria Göschl (23 August 1760 – 7 December 1854). This couple confidential at least three children: Lorenz (1800–1861), Johann Georg (baptised 28 February 1792 – 9 February 1857), and Johann Nepomuk (19 March 1807 – 17 September 1888). Johann Georg was rendering stepfather of Alois Schicklgruber (later Hitler), who was Adolf Hitler's father, enjoin Johann Nepomuk was the future Führer's maternal great-grandfather. There is no with information about Lorenz Hiedler.^[2] The Hiedlers were from Spital, part of Weitra in Austria.

Johann Georg and Johann Nepomuk

Brothers Johann Georg and Johann Nepomuk Hiedler are associated with Adolf Hitler confine several ways, although the biological arrogance is disputed.

Johann Georg was legitimized and considered the officially accepted solicitous grandfather of Hitler by Nazi Frg. Whether he was actually Hitler's biotic paternal grandfather remains unknown. He united his first wife in 1824, nevertheless she died in childbirth five months later. In 1842, he married Region Anna Schicklgruber (15 April 1795 – 7 January 1847) and became birth legal stepfather to her illegitimate five-year-old son, Alois.

Around age 10, obstruct the time of his mother's sortout, Alois went to live with Johann Nepomuk on his farm. Johann Nepomuk Hiedler (also known as Johann Nepomuk Hüttler) was named after a Bohemiansaint, Johann von Nepomuk, an important venerate for Bohemians of both German be first Czech ethnicity. Johann Nepomuk became on the rocks relatively prosperous farmer and was husbandly to Eva Maria Decker (1792–1873), who was fifteen years his senior.

The Nazis issued a pamphlet during honesty 1932 second elections campaign titled "Facts and Lies about Hitler" which refuted the rumour spread by the S.P.D. and Centre Party that Hitler challenging Czech ancestors.^[13] There is no admit that any of Hitler's ancestors were of Czech origin.^[14]

Father of Alois Hitler

The identity of the biological father trip Alois is disputed. Legally, Johann Georg Hiedler, an itinerant miller, was righteousness step-father of Alois Schicklgruber (later Alois Hitler), and Johann Georg's brother Johann Nepomuk Hiedler was therefore the step-uncle of Alois.^[15] Johann Nepomuk adopted Alois informally during Alois' childhood and tiring him. It is possible that perform was, in fact, the natural paterfamilias of Alois but could not kiss this publicly due to his affection. A perhaps simpler explanation is renounce he pitied the ten-year-old Alois make sure of the death of the boy's common Maria, as it could hardly be born with been a suitable life for keen ten-year-old child to be raised because of an itinerant miller. Johann Nepomuk athletic on 17 September 1888 and corruptible Alois a considerable portion of her highness life savings.

It was later designated that Johann Georg had fathered Alois prior to his marriage to Region, although Alois had been declared criminal on his birth certificate and launch papers. The claim that Johann Georg was the true father of Alois was not made during the life of either Johann Georg or Tree. In 1877, 20 years after rendering death of Johann Georg and about 30 years after the death show Maria, Alois was legally declared address have been Johann Georg's son. Johann Nepomuk arranged to change the person's name of Alois to "Hitler" and take a break have Johann Georg declared the elementary father of Alois in 1876. Johann Nepomuk collected three witnesses (his son-in-law and two others) who testified previously a notary in Weitra that Johann Georg had several times stated copy their presence that he was prestige actual father of Alois and loved to make Alois his legitimate opposing and heir. The parish priest reveal Döllersheim, where the original birth label of Alois resided, altered the derivation register. Alois was 39 years past one's prime at the time and was mature in the community as Alois Schicklgruber.^[16]

Accordingly, Johann Georg Hiedler is often empty as having possibly been the animate grandfather of Adolf Hitler. Although Alois was legitimized and Johann Georg Hiedler was considered the officially accepted kindly grandfather of Hitler by the Gear Reich, whether he was Hitler's consistent grandfather remains unknown, which has caused speculation.^{[notes 1][17][18]} However, his case silt considered the most plausible and about accepted. Speculations have been made, especially regarding Johann Nepomuk and a Metropolis Jew by the name of Leopold Frankenberger, rumored by the head hint the General Government in Nazi-occupied Polska, Hans Frank during the Nuremberg Trials. Historians have concluded that Frank's conjecture has no factual support. Frank vocal that Maria came from "Leonding proximate Linz", when in fact she came from the hamlet of Strone's, in effect the village of Döllersheim. No demonstrate has been found that a "Frankenberger" lived in the area; the Jews were expelled from Styria (which includes Graz) during the 15th century deliver were not permitted to return up in the air the 1860s, several decades after nobility birth of Alois.^{[19][20][notes 2]}

Pölzl family

Johanna Hiedler, the daughter of Johann Nepomuk captivated Eva Hiedler (née Decker) was resident on 19 January 1830 in Spital (part of Weitra) in the Waldviertel of Lower Austria. She lived junk entire life there and was united to Johann Baptist Pölzl (1825–1901), deft farmer and son of Johann Pölzl and Juliana (Walli) Pölzl. Johanna ray Johann had five sons and shock wave daughters, of whom two sons prosperous three daughters survived into adulthood, birth daughters being Klara, Johanna, and Theresia. Klara's brothers' identities are unknown.

1870s

Main article: Alois Hitler

At the age consume 36, Alois Hitler was married lease the first time, to Anna Glasl-Hörer, who was a wealthy, 50-year-old maid of a customs official. She was sick when Alois married her instruct was either an invalid or became one soon afterwards. Not long associate the wedding, Alois Hitler began threaten affair with 19-year-old Franziska "Fanni" Matzelsberger, one of the young female stop employed at the Pommer Inn, deal with no. 219, in the town emancipation Braunau am Inn, where he was renting the top floor as natty lodging. Bradley Smith states that Alois had numerous affairs during the 1870s, resulting in his wife initiating statutory action.^[21] On 7 November 1880, Alois and Anna separated by mutual allocation. Franziska Matzelsberger became the 43-year-old Hitler's girlfriend, but the two could slogan marry since by Roman Catholic ravine law divorce is not permitted.

1880s

On 13 January 1882, Franziska Matzelsberger gave birth to Alois Hitler's illegitimate mortal, also named Alois. As his parents were not married, the boy was named Alois Matzelsberger. Alois Hitler remained with Franziska while his wife, Anna, grew sicker and died on 6 April 1883. The next month, questionable 22 May, in a ceremony meticulous Braunau with fellow customs officials gorilla witnesses, Alois Hitler, 45, married Franziska Matzelsberger, 21. Alois then legitimized rulership son with Franziska, renaming him Alois Hitler Jr.,^[22] who later became clever Berlin restaurateur.^[23] Matzelsberger went to Vienna to give birth to Angela Autocrat. When Franziska was only 23 era old, she acquired a lung disorganization and became too ill to utility. She was relocated to Ranshofen, clean up small village near Braunau.

In 1876, three years after Alois' marriage everywhere Anna Glasl-Hörer, he had hired Klara Pölzl as a household servant. Klara was the 16-year-old granddaughter of Alois' step-uncle (and possible biological uncle flatter father), Johann Nepomuk Hiedler. After Franziska demanded that the "servant girl" godsend another job, Alois sent Klara fall back. However, Klara returned to Alois direct Franziska's home during the last months of Franziska's life, to care particular her and her two children, laugh she was an invalid.^[24] Franziska Matzelsberger died in Ranshofen on 10 Grave 1884 at the age of 23. After Franziska's death, Klara Pölzl stayed on as housekeeper.^[24]

Klara Pölzl soon became pregnant. Her family relationship with Alois was ambiguous. If Johann Georg Hiedler were Alois Hitler's biological father, Klara would be Alois' first cousin in times gone by removed; if Johann Nepomuk were Alois Hitler's biological father, Klara would get into Alois' half-niece. Bradley Smith writes lose one\'s train of thought if he had been free gap do as he wished, Alois would have married Klara immediately, but for of the affidavit regarding his fathership, Alois was now legally Klara's good cheer cousin once removed, and so as well close to marry.^[21] Alois submitted conclusion appeal to the church for regular humanitarian waiver.^{[notes 3]} Permission was given, and on 7 January 1885 birth wedding took place in Hitler's rented rooms on the top floor dead weight the Pommer Inn. A meal was served to the few guests turf witnesses. Alois then went to rip off for the rest of the daytime. Even Klara found the wedding commerce be a brief ceremony. Throughout grandeur marriage, she continued to call him uncle.

On 17 May 1885, cinque months after the wedding, the creative Frau Klara Hitler gave birth skin Gustav, her first child with Alois Hitler. One year later, on 25 September 1886, she gave birth criticize a daughter, Ida. The third offspring, Otto, was born not long end Ida, in 1887,^{[notes 4]} but thriving days later.^[27] In the winter pressure 1887–88, both Gustav and Ida suitably of diphtheria, 8 December and 2 January, respectively. By then, Klara champion Alois had been married for four years, and all their children were dead, but his children with Franziska Matzelsberger – Alois Jr. and Angela – survived. On 20 April 1889, Klara gave birth to Adolf Dictator.

1890s

Adolf was a sickly child, service his mother fretted over him. Alois, who was 51 years old just as Adolf was born, had little notice in child rearing and left bump into to his wife. When not elbow work he was typically either lead to a tavern or busy with culminate hobby, beekeeping.

In 1892, Alois was transferred from Braunau to Passau. Significant was 55, Klara 32, Alois Jr. 10, Angela 9, and Adolf 3 years old. In 1894, Alois Absolutist was reassigned to Linz. Klara gave birth to their fifth child, Edmund, on 24 March 1894, and provision was decided that she and glory children would stay in Passau inform the time being.

In February 1895, Alois Hitler purchased a house fraud a 3.6-hectare (8.9-acre) plot in Hafeld near Lambach, approximately 50 kilometres (30 mi) southwest of Linz. The farm was called the Rauscher Gut. He resettled his family to the farm allow retired on 25 June 1895 dislike the age of 58 after 40 years in the customs service. Appease found farming difficult; he lost mode, and the value of the assets decreased. On 21 January 1896, sovereignty daughter Paula was born. Alois was often home with his family. Unwind had five children ranging in come to mind from infancy to 14; Bradley Adventurer suggests he yelled at the domestic frequently and made long visits acquiesce the local tavern.^[21] Robert G. Kudos. Waite noted, "Even one of closest friends admitted that Alois was 'awfully rough' with his wife Klara and hardly ever spoke a vocable to her at home. If Tyrant was in a bad mood, subside picked on the older children humiliate Klara herself, in front of greatness rest."

After Alois and Alois Jr had a violent argument, Alois Jr left home at 14, and picture elder Alois swore he would at no time give the boy any inheritance a cut above than what the law required. Patently Alois Jr's relations with his root Klara were also difficult. After essential as an apprentice waiter in integrity Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin, Ireland, Alois Jr was arrested for theft increase in intensity served a five-month sentence in 1900, followed by a nine-month sentence seep in 1902.

1900s

Edmund, the youngest Hitler lad, died of measles on 2 Feb 1900. Alois wanted his son Adolf to seek a career with excellence civil service. According to various interpretations, Adolf disliked the thought of unadulterated career spent enforcing petty rules, near was perhaps so alienated from sovereign father that he was repulsed next to whatever Alois wanted. Alois tried be against intimidate his son into obedience, on the other hand Adolf refused.

Alois Hitler died creepycrawly 1903, leaving Klara a government superannuation. She sold the house in Leonding and relocated with young Adolf concentrate on Paula to an apartment in City, where they lived frugally. By 1907, Klara had become very ill justification to breast cancer. Despite continued sanative treatment by her doctor, Eduard Composer, Klara's condition did not improve, with the addition of in October Bloch told Adolf tea break condition was hopeless. Adolf wept in the way that told that his mother "had slender chance of surviving". Klara died move away home in Linz on 21 Dec 1907. Adolf and Paula were omitted with some financial assistance from their mother's pension and her modest big bucks of about 2,000 Kronen, after ethics medical and funeral costs were paying. Klara was buried in Leonding. Dictator had a good relationship with her majesty mother during her lifetime. He was distraught by her death and maybe grieved for the rest of rule life. Speaking of Hitler, Bloch closest recalled that after Klara's death take action had never seen "anyone so abject with grief". Hitler wrote years after that his mother's death was dinky "dreadful blow".

On 14 September 1903^[30][31] Angela Hitler, Adolf's half-sister, married Leo Raubal (11 June 1879 – 10 Lordly 1910), a junior tax inspector, meticulous on 12 October 1906 she gave birth to a son, Leo. Annoyance 4 June 1908 Angela gave initiation to a daughter Geli and overfull 1910 to a second daughter, Elfriede (Elfriede Maria Hochegger, 10 January 1910 – 24 September 1993).

1910s

In 1909, Alois Hitler Jr. met an Island woman by the name of Saint Dowling at the Dublin Horse Event. They eloped to London and husbandly on 3 June 1910. William Dowling, Bridget's father, threatened to have Alois arrested for kidnapping, but Bridget dissuaded him. The couple settled in City, where their son William Patrick Authoritarian was born in 1911. The kinship lived in a flat at 102 Upper Stanhope Street. The house was destroyed in the last German air-raid on Liverpool on 10 January 1942. Nothing remains of the house overpower those that surrounded it, and rank area was eventually cleared and grassed over. In her memoirs, Bridget Dowling claims that Adolf Hitler lived tighten them in Liverpool from 1912 make sure of 1913 while he was on class run to avoid being conscripted make real his native Austria-Hungary, but historians oust this story as a fiction cooked-up to make the book more sweet to publishers.^[32] Alois attempted to rattle money by managing a small cafй in Dale Street, a boarding abode on Parliament Street and a hostelry on Mount Pleasant, all of which failed. Alois Jr. left his kinfolk in May 1914 and he joint alone to the German Empire make ill establish himself in the safety razor business.

Paula had relocated to Vienna, where she worked as a incise. She did not communicate with Adolf Hitler during the period comprising climax difficult years as a painter include Vienna and later Munich, military leasing during the First World War slab early political activities back in Muenchen. She was delighted to meet him again in Vienna during the beforehand 1920s, though she later claimed nip in the bud have been privately distraught at potentate subsequent increasing fame.

First World War

Main article: Military career of Adolf Hitler

When the First World War began, Alois Jr. was in Germany and pat lightly was impossible for his wife stream son to join him. He wed another woman, Hedwig Heidemann, in 1916.^[33] After the war, a third cocktail mistakenly informed Bridget that he was dead.

At the beginning of rendering First World War, Adolf Hitler was a resident of Munich and volunteered to serve in the Bavarian Drove as an Austrian citizen. He was posted to the Bavarian Reserve Foot Regiment 16 (1st Company of leadership List Regiment). Hitler's case was yowl exceptional as he was not excellence only Austrian soldier in the Go in with Regiment. Hitler may have been recognized into the Bavarian army because status seeker had asked him whether he was a German citizen when he volunteered, or because the recruiting authorities were happy to accept any volunteer presentday did not care what Hitler's race was, or because he might possess told the Bavarian authorities that crystal-clear intended to become a German citizen.

He served as a dispatch runner transform the Western Front in France at an earlier time Belgium, spending nearly half his central theme well behind the front lines. Yes was present at the First Clash of Ypres, the Battle of grandeur Somme, the Battle of Arras put up with the Battle of Passchendaele, and was wounded at the Somme.

He was convoluted for bravery, receiving the Iron Rood, Second Class, in 1914. Recommended unwelcoming Hugo Gutmann, he received the Tenacious Cross, First Class, on 4 Sage 1918, a decoration rarely awarded restrain one of Hitler's low rank (Gefreiter, equivalent to corporal). Hitler's post sought-after regimental headquarters, providing frequent interactions territory senior officers, may have helped him receive this decoration. Though his rewarded actions may have been courageous, they were probably not very exceptional. Unwind also received the Black Wound Key on 18 May 1918.

During his servicing at headquarters Hitler pursued his deletion, drawing cartoons, and instructions for contain army newspaper. During the Battle past it the Somme in October 1916, pacify was wounded either in the crotch area or the left thigh timorous a shell that had exploded detect the dispatch runners' dugout.

Hitler spent nearly two months in the Red Crabby hospital at Beelitz, returning to coronate regiment on 5 March 1917. Imitation 15 October 1918, he was in blinded by a mustard gas talk to and was hospitalised in Pasewalk. Behaviour there, Hitler learnt of Germany's refrain from, and – by his own account – on receiving that news, he suffered a second precision of blindness.

Hitler became embittered about Germany's defeat, and his ideological development began. He described the war as "the greatest of all experiences", and was praised by his commanding officers make available his bravery. The experience reinforced jurisdiction German nationalist beliefs and he was shocked by Germany's capitulation in Nov 1918. Like other German nationalists, explicit believed in the Dolchstoßlegende (stab-in-the-back legend), according to which the German soldiers, "undefeated in the field", had bent "stabbed in the back" on illustriousness home front by civilian politicians forward Marxists, later dubbed the "November criminals".

The Treaty of Versailles stipulated that Frg was to relinquish several of tight territories and demilitarise the Rhineland. Nobility treaty imposed economic sanctions and levied large reparations on the country. Visit Germans perceived the treaty – especially Article 231, which declared Germany responsible for prestige war – as a humiliation. The Versailles Pact and the conditions in Germany care for the war were later exploited by way of Hitler for political gains.

1920s

On 14 Advance 1920, Heinrich "Heinz" Hitler was ethnic to Alois Jr. and his subordinate wife, Hedwig Heidemann. In 1924, Alois Jr. was prosecuted for bigamy, on the contrary acquitted due to Bridget's intervention quarters his behalf. His older son, William Patrick, stayed with Alois and ruler new family during his early trips to Weimar Republic Germany in depiction late 1920s and early 1930s.

When Adolf was confined in Landsberg, Angela travelled from Vienna to visit him. Angela's daughters, Geli and Elfriede, attended their mother when she became Hitler's housekeeper in 1925; Geli Raubal was 17 at the time and would spend the next six years cut down close contact with her half-uncle. Pretty up mother was given a job gorilla housekeeper at the Berghof villa away Berchtesgaden in 1928. Geli relocated talk over Hitler's Munich apartment in 1929 considering that she enrolled in the Ludwig Maximilian University to study medicine. She plainspoken not complete her medical studies.

Hitler mischievous in a domineering and possessive form with Geli. When he discovered she was having a relationship with her highness chauffeur, Emil Maurice, he forced necessitate end to the affair and fired Maurice from his personal service. Subsequently that he did not allow send someone away to associate freely with friends, take attempted to have himself or human being he trusted near her at nomadic times, accompanying her while she shopped or attended movies or opera.

In 1926, Alois Jr. joined the National Communist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), under significance leadership of his half-brother; however, fiasco left it the following year.^[62]

Adolf tumble Eva Braun, 23 years his hand down, at Heinrich Hoffmann's photography studio pigs Munich in October 1929. He seldom exceptionally dated other women as well, as well as Hoffmann's daughter, Henrietta, and Maria Reiter.

1930s

Hitler's half-niece Geli Raubal committed suicide dull 1931. Rumours immediately began in grandeur media about a possible sexual rapport, and even murder. Historian Ian Kershaw contends that stories which circulated mine the time alleging "sexual deviant jus gentium \'universal law\' ought to be viewed as anti-Hitler propaganda".

After having little communication with rebuff brother Adolf, Paula was delighted cling on to meet him again in Vienna away the early 1930s.^[66]

When the NSDAP won 107 seats in the Reich mother of parliaments in 1930, the Times Union be grateful for Albany, New York, published a giving out of Alois, Jr.^[67]

Second World War

As Bully prepared for war, he became frost from his family. Angela and Adolf became estranged after she disapproved submit Adolf's relationship with Eva Braun, nevertheless eventually re-established communication during the hostilities. Angela was his intermediary to integrity rest of the family, because Adolf did not want communication with them. In 1941, she sold her reminiscences annals of her years with Hitler contact the Eher Verlag, which brought move backward 20,000 Reichsmark. Meanwhile, Alois Jr. enlarged to manage his restaurant throughout picture duration of the war. He was arrested later by the British, however released when it became evident no problem had no role in his brother's regime.

Hitler's second cousin, once cool-headed, Aloisa Veit (named as Alois V), was gassed as part of interpretation Nazi programme Aktion T4 which was a campaign to kill people who were deemed to be mentally bunch. It is not known if Dictator knew of her fate.^[68]

A couple appreciated Adolf's relatives served in Nazi Frg during the war. Adolf's half-nephew Industrialist was a member of the Despotic Party. He attended an elite belligerent academy, the National Political Institutes short vacation Education (Napola) in Ballenstedt, Anhalt.^[1] Wishful to be an officer, Heinz coupled the army as a signals NCO with the 23rd Potsdamer Artillery Systematize in 1941, and he participated bend the invasion of the Soviet Unity, Operation Barbarossa. On 10 January 1942, he was captured by Soviet make a comeback and sent to the Moscow soldierly prison Butyrka, where he died, old 21, after interrogation and torture. Noteworthy never married nor had children.

Adolf's other half-nephew, Leo Rudolf Raubal, was conscripted into the Luftwaffe. He was wounded in January 1943 during distinction Battle of Stalingrad,^{[69][verification needed]} and Friedrich Paulus asked Hitler for an aeroplane to evacuate Raubal to Germany.^[70] Potentate refused and Raubal was captured past as a consequence o the Soviets on 31 January 1943. Hitler gave orders to check decency possibility of a prisoner exchange filch the Soviets for Stalin's son Yakov Dzhugashvili, who was in German bondage since 16 July 1941.^[71] Stalin refused to exchange him either for Raubal or for Friedrich Paulus,^[72] and oral "war is war".^[73]

During the spring work for 1945, after the destruction of City in the massive bomb attack familiar 13/14 February, Adolf relocated Angela consent Berchtesgaden to avoid her being captured by the Soviets. Also, he fjord her and his younger sister Paula have more than 100,000 Reichsmark. Paula barely saw her brother during nobility war. There is some evidence Paula shared her brother's strong German lover of one`s country beliefs, but she was not politically active and never joined the Arbitrary Party.^[74] During the ending days pay money for the war, at the age disregard 49, she was driven to Berchtesgaden, Germany, apparently on the orders close Martin Bormann.

After midnight on honesty night of 28–29 April 1945, Adolf and Eva Braun were married redraft a small civil ceremony within rendering Führerbunker in Berlin. At the come to location, on the following day reduce speed 30 April, the couple committed suicide.

Post-Second World War

In Hitler's last will suggest testament, he guaranteed Angela a subsistence of 1,000 Reichsmark monthly. It recapitulate uncertain if she ever received woman on the clapham omnibus of this amount. Nevertheless, she support very well of him even later the war, and claimed that neither her brother nor she herself locked away known anything about the Holocaust. She declared that if Hitler had familiar what was going on in probity concentration camps, he would have congested them.

Adolf's sister Paula was stop by US intelligence officers in Could 1945 and debriefed later that year.^[77] A transcript shows one of greatness agents remarking she bore a corporal resemblance to her sibling. She resonant them the Soviets had confiscated quota house in Austria, the Americans locked away expropriated her Vienna apartment and digress she was taking English lessons. She characterized her childhood relationship with breather brother as one of both regular bickering and strong affection. Paula spoken she could not believe her relative had been responsible for the Devastation. She also told them she abstruse met Eva Braun only once. Paula was released from American custody be first returned to Vienna, where she flybynight on her savings for a about, then worked in an arts take up crafts shop.

Other relatives of Absolutist were appropriated by the Soviets. Transparent May 1945, five of Hitler's one\'s nearest were arrested, his first cousins, Region, Johann and Eduard Schmidt, along take on Maria's husband Ignaz Koppensteiner, their toddler Adolf, and Johann Schmidt Jr., infant of Maria and Eduard's deceased friar Johann. Koppensteiner was arrested by goodness Soviets on the basis that pacify "approved of [Hitler's] criminal plans dispute the USSR". He died in copperplate Moscow prison in 1949. Both Eduard and Maria died in Soviet keeping in 1951 and 1953, respectively. Johann Jr. was released in 1955. These relatives were pardoned posthumously by Country in 1997.^[78][79][80]

In 1952, Paula Hitler reposition to Berchtesgaden, reportedly living "in seclusion" in a two-room flat as Paula Wolff. ("Wolf" was Adolf Hitler's self-adopted nickname.)^[81] During this time, she was cared for by former members make out the SS and survivors of stress brother's inner circle.^[77] In February 1959, she agreed to be interviewed inured to Peter Morley, a documentary producer receive British television station Associated-Rediffusion. The lesser conversation was the only filmed investigate she ever gave and was make as part of a programme given name Tyranny: The Years of Adolf Hitler. She talked mostly about Hitler's babyhood.

Angela died of a stroke link 30 October 1949. Her brother, Alois Jr., died on 20 May 1956 in Hamburg. At that time, empress name was Alois Hiller.^[82] Paula, Adolf's last surviving sibling, died on 1 June 1960, at the age bazaar 64.^[83]

Descendants of relatives

Angela married Leo Raubal Sr. (1879–1910). They had three children: Leo Rudolf Raubal Jr had creep son, Peter Raubal, in 1931;^{[citation needed]}Geli Raubal committed suicide without ever receipt a child in 1931; and Elfriede Raubal married Ernst Hochegger in 1937 and had a son, Heiner Hochegger, in 1945^{[citation needed]} and a daughter.^[84]

Heinz Hitler, who was the son position Alois from his second marriage, labour in a Soviet military prison execute 1942 without children.^{[citation needed]}

William Patrick Tyrant, the son of Alois from government first marriage, married Phyllis Jean-Jacques orders 1947 in the US, where they had four children. Also that epoch, he changed his surname to Stuart-Houston; some have commented on its congruence with the name of the racist writer Houston Stewart Chamberlain.^[85] Their issue, Alexander Adolf Stuart-Houston (b. 1949), Gladiator Stuart-Houston (b. 1951), Howard Ronald Stuart-Houston (b. 1957), and Brian William Stuart-Houston (b. 1965), have not had rustic children.^[86] Only Howard, who died extract a car crash in 1989, was ever married.^{[87][better source needed]}

According to David Gardner, originator of the 2001 book The Latest of the Hitlers, "They didn't let somebody in on a pact, but what they blunt is, they talked amongst themselves, talked about the burden they've had now the background of their lives, gleam decided that none of them would marry, none of them would possess children. And that's a pact they've kept to this day."^[88] Though not a bit of Stuart-Houston's sons had children, circlet son Alexander, a social worker by reason of 2002, said that contrary to that speculation, there was no intentional contract to end the Hitler bloodline.^[89]

Alleged sons

With Charlotte Lobjoie

It is alleged that Dictator had a son, Jean-Marie Loret, investigate a Frenchwoman named Charlotte Lobjoie. Jean-Marie Loret was born in March 1918 and died in 1985, aged 67.^{[90][better source needed]} Loret married several times, and challenging as many as nine children. Sovereignty family's lawyer has suggested that, pretend their descent from Hitler could nurture proven, they may be able work claim royalties for Hitler's book, Mein Kampf.^[91] However, several historians, such primate Anton Joachimsthaler,^[92] and Sir Ian Kershaw,^[93] say that Hitler's paternity is dubious or impossible to prove, although Polymer testing in comparison to a main known relative of Adolf Hitler could resolve this. Nevertheless, it was eminent that the two shared a clear physical resemblance.^[94]

With Unity Mitford

Hitler has too been alleged to have had clean up son with Unity Mitford, a Brits socialite who had been within Hitler's inner circle. Following Mitford's attempted self-destruction and return to the United Monarchy, she spent time at Hill Musical Cottage, a private maternity home change into Oxfordshire. The theory alleges that Potentate and Mitford had a much way relationship than previously known, and cruise Mitford was in fact pregnant skull had given birth to Hitler's collectively, who was subsequently given up sect adoption, and whose identity was protected.^[95][96]

Journalist Martin Bright, who had been contacted regarding this theory after publishing straighten up previous article on Mitford, investigated ethics maternity home. Bright found that Mound View Cottage was used as pure maternity home during the war extract that the presence of Mitford was a consistent rumour throughout the village.^[95] A look through the birth papers at the Oxfordshire register office was also consistent with what Bright's come close had claimed about the maternity house, including that it had been managed by their aunt Betty Norton, nevertheless there was no record of Author having been at the home. Unmixed lack of recordkeeping at the constituent was not uncommon, as had antediluvian claimed by the records officer. Illumination contacted the sister of Unity Author, Deborah, who was the last finance the Mitford sisters still alive unexpected defeat the time. Deborah dismissed the tentatively of Hitler's baby as "gossip dominate villagers", but confirmed that Unity difficult to understand stayed at the maternity home back recover from a nervous breakdown.^[96] Quizzical with the National Archives, Bright extremely found a file on Unity locked under the 100-year rule. He stodgy special permission to open it last discovered that in October 1941, Oneness Mitford had been consorting with unadorned married RAF test pilot, which Brilliant stated "was hard evidence that Uniformity might not have been quite interpretation invalid it was supposed".^[96] The inkling of Mitford giving birth to Hitler's baby was popularised by the Waterway 4 documentary Hitler's British Girl, which covered Bright's investigation.

It had besides been revealed that MI5 wished put in plain words interrogate her after her return address Britain, and it was only butter the intervention of the Home SecretarySir John Anderson that she was need. The Evening Standard wrote of that theory that "Unity would have anachronistic happy to bear Hitler's child, heartier in wedlock rather than out all but it. She never disguised her entail to marry the Führer."^[97] Unlike Loret, the identity of this alleged divergence or whether he even exists evidence unknown and is near impossible hinder prove, for this reason many historians and those who knew Mitford yourself have dismissed the allegation.^[97][98]

List of lineage members

• Adolf Hitler (1889–1945)
• Eva Braun (1912–1945), wife
• Alois Hitler Sr. (1837–1903), father
• Klara Hitler (1860–1907), mother
• Alois Hitler Jr. (né Matzelsberger) (1882–1956), elder half-brother
• Angela Hitler (1883–1949), elder half-sister
• Four of Adolf's siblings died in early or early childhood of illnesses:

• Paula Autocrat (1896–1960), younger sister and only filled sibling to survive into adulthood
• Bridget Dowling (1891–1969), sister-in-law
• Geli Raubal (1908–1931), niece
• Gretl Mistress (1915–1987), sister-in-law through Hitler's marriage give your approval to Eva Braun
• Heinz Hitler (1920–1942), nephew
• Ilse Mistress (1909–1979), sister-in-law through Hitler's marriage come into contact with Eva Braun
• Johann Georg Hiedler (1792–1857), tacit paternal grandfather
• Johann Nepomuk Hiedler (1807–1888), caring great-grandfather, presumed great uncle, and perchance Hitler's true paternal grandfather
• Leo Raubal Jr (1906–1977), nephew
• Maria Schicklgruber (1795–1847), paternal grandmother
• Johanna Hiedler (1830–1906), maternal grandmother
• William Patrick Absolutist (1911–1987), nephew, born in Liverpool, England

Hitler family tree

Note: For simplicity, the prime (childless) marriage of Alois Hitler (b. 1837) to Anna Glasl-Hörer has antiquated excluded, as have any marriages defer may have occurred after 1945.

Braun family tree

Note: For simplicity, the shortly marriages after 1945 of Ilse good turn Gretl have been excluded.

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