219, in the city of Braunau am Inn, where he was renting the top floor as a lodging. Aspiring to be an officer, Heinz joined the Heer (army) as a signals NCO with the 23rd Potsdamer Artillery Regiment in 1941, and he participated with the invasion of the USSR, Operation Barbarossa. In the 1950s, the third possibility became popular among historians, but modern historians have concluded that Frank's speculation has no factual support. In 1876, three years after Alois married Anna Glasl-Hörer, he hired Klara Pölzl as a household servant. Apparently Alois Jr's relations with his stepmother Klara were also difficult. Alois petitioned the church for an episcopal dispensation citing "bilateral affinity in the third degree touching the second" to describe his rather complicated family relationship to Klara. [39] On 15 October 1918, he was temporarily blinded by a mustard gas attack and was hospitalised in Pasewalk. Undercover in a Berlin bunker in 1945, Hitler married actress Eva Braun. He died in a Moscow prison in 1949. There is no additional information about Lorenz Hiedler. Washington Post/Alexander Historical Auctions. No evidence has ever been found that a "Frankenberger" lived in the area; the Jews were expelled from Styria (which includes Graz) during the 15th century and were not permitted to return until the 1860s, several decades after the birth of Alois. Despite these fears, all of the rumors concerning Hitler’s children were deemed unsubstantiated — that is, until Jean-Marie Loret came forward. Loret claimed that Hitler did know of his existence and even tried to destroy all proof of a link. He found farming difficult; he lost money, and the value of the property decreased. [12] Johann Nepomuk adopted Alois informally during Alois' childhood and raised him. Neither Raubal nor Hochegger have married or had children, either. [40] While there, Hitler learnt of Germany's defeat,[41] and—by his own account—on receiving this news, he suffered a second bout of blindness. Nothing remains of the house or those that surrounded it, and the area was eventually cleared and grassed over. In 1941, she sold her memoirs of her years with Hitler to the Eher Verlag, which brought her 20,000 Reichsmark. Then, explore these 31 facts about World War II that you can’t find in history books. Jean-Marie Loret pictured here was possibly one of Adolf Hitler’s children. Frank said that Maria came from "Leonding near Linz", when in fact she came from the hamlet of Strones, near the village of Döllersheim. 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. Those closest to Hitler claim that the man had apparent intimacy issues and likely did not want to procreate. [20] Despite continued medical treatment by Dr. Bloch, Klara's condition did not improve and in October, he told Adolf her condition was hopeless. After working as an apprentice waiter in the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin, Ireland, Alois Jr was arrested for theft and served a five-month sentence in 1900, followed by a nine-month sentence in 1902. The question, “did Hitler have children,” is to some still in contention. 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. Adolf's other nephew, Leo Rudolf Raubal, was conscripted into the Luftwaffe. [51][56] Historian Ian Kershaw contends that stories circulated at the time as to alleged "sexual deviant practices ought to be viewed as anti-Hitler propaganda". Both Eduard and Maria died in Soviet custody in 1951 and 1953, respectively. Similarly, a painting in Hitler’s collection depicts a woman with an astonishing resemblance to Lobjoie. But these walks usually ended badly. Then he is no longer their idol as he was before.”. [19] Matzelsberger died in Ranshofen on 10 August 1884 at the age of 23. In 1924, Alois Jr was prosecuted for bigamy, but acquitted due to Bridget's intervention on his behalf. [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. According to reports, they do not plan to. Angela and Adolf became estranged after she disapproved of Adolf's relationship with Eva Braun, but eventually re-established communication during the war. Film looking at the descendants of the most powerful figures in the Nazi regime. [8] He married his first wife in 1824, but she died in childbirth five months later. At the age of 36, Alois Hitler was married for the first time, to Anna Glasl-Hörer, who was a wealthy, 50-year-old daughter of a customs official. 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. Kershaw concludes that, whoever the actual father of Alois may have been, he was not a Jew from Graz. [citation needed], William Patrick Hitler, the son of Alois from his first marriage, married Phyllis Jean-Jacques in 1947 in the US, where they had four children. Adolf and Paula were left with some financial assistance from their mother's pension and her modest estate of about 2,000 Kronen, after the medical and funeral costs were paid. In 1939, he went on to join the French army against the Germans in World War II. Also that year, he changed his surname to Stuart-Houston; some have commented on its similarity with the name of the British anti-semitic writer Houston Stewart Chamberlain. 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. When Adolf was confined in Landsberg, Angela travelled from Vienna to visit him. The local bishop apparently believed this relationship was too close to approve on his own authority, so he forwarded the petition to Rome on behalf of Alois, seeking instead a papal dispensation, which was approved before the birth of the couple's first child. Four of Adolf's siblings died in infancy or early childhood of illnesses: Ida Hitler (1886–1888), died of diphtheria, This page was last edited on 22 October 2020, at 01:27. [18] Matzelsberger went to Vienna to give birth to Angela Hitler. [10] There is no evidence that any of Hitler's ancestors were of Czech origin.[11]. She did not communicate with Adolf Hitler during the period comprising his difficult years as a painter in Vienna and later Munich, military service during the First World War and early political activities back in Munich. The question, “did Hitler have children,” is to some still in contention. [54] He occasionally dated other women as well, including Hoffmann's daughter, Henrietta, and Maria Reiter. He was 55, Klara 32, Alois Jr. 10, Angela 9, and Adolf 3 years old. Alois tried to intimidate his son into obedience, but Adolf refused. Also, he let her and his younger sister Paula have more than 100,000 Reichsmark. Hitler had a good relationship with his mother during her lifetime. Read about our approach to external linking. Speaking of Hitler, Bloch later recalled that after Klara's death he had never seen "anyone so prostrate with grief". 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. She sold the house in Leonding and relocated with young Adolf and Paula to an apartment in Linz, where they lived frugally. Rumours immediately began in the media about a possible sexual relationship, and even murder. When the First World War began, Alois Jr. was in Germany and it was impossible for his wife and son to join him. )[71] During this time, she was cared for by former members of the SS and survivors of her brother's inner circle. But I don’t want to have anything to do with it. His family's lawyer has suggested that, if their descent from Hitler could be proven, they may be able to claim royalties for Hitler's book, Mein Kampf. After midnight on the night of 28–29 April 1945, Adolf and Eva Braun were married in a small civil ceremony within the Führerbunker in Berlin. 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. Smith states that Alois had numerous affairs during the 1870s, resulting in his wife initiating legal action; on 7 November 1880 Alois and Anna separated by mutual agreement. Klara and Alois had been married for three years, and all their children were dead, but Alois still had the children from his relationship with Matzelsberger, Alois Jr. and Angela. What is it like to have grown up with a name that immediately raises images of genocide? [61] Stalin refused to exchange him either for Raubal or for Friedrich Paulus,[62] and said "war is war."[63]. "[81] Though none of Stuart-Houston's sons had children, his son Alexander, now a social worker, said that contrary to this speculation, there was not any intentional pact to end the Hitler bloodline.[82]. The claim that Johann Georg was the true father of Alois was not made during the lifetime of either Johann Georg or Maria. It wasn’t until she was on her deathbed that Charlotte Lobjoie finally reached out to her son to tell him the truth about herself and his birth father. Is it possible to move on from the crimes of their ancestors? Johann Georg was legitimized and considered the officially accepted paternal grandfather of Hitler by Nazi Germany. How do they live with the weight of their ancestors' crimes? [60] Hitler refused and Raubal was captured by the Soviets on 31 January 1943. Also in 1892, Alois was transferred from Braunau to Passau. A collection of programmes commemorating World War II. [65] At the same location, on the following day of 30 April, the couple committed suicide.[66]. [44] The experience reinforced his passionate German patriotism and he was shocked by Germany's capitulation in November 1918. The Stuart-Houston brothers are directly descended from Hitler’s half-brother, Alois Jr., on his father’s side. It is no coincidence that none of the Stuart-Houston men — the last of Hitler’s descendants on his paternal side — have procreated. Klara's brothers' identities are unknown. [46], The Treaty of Versailles stipulated that Germany must relinquish several of its territories and demilitarise the Rhineland. The farm was called the Rauscher Gut. [13][14][notes 2] Although Alois was legitimized and Johann Georg was considered the officially accepted paternal grandfather of Hitler by the Third Reich, whether he was Hitler's biological grandfather remains unknown, which has caused speculation. 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? [47] The Versailles Treaty and the economic, social, and political conditions in Germany after the war were later exploited by Hitler for political gains.[48]. This programme is not currently available on BBC iPlayer. Both married and had children, some of whom are still alive today.
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