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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was the German Chancellor from 1933 to 1945 and Führer of Germany from 1934 until 1945. He was also the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party and is considered the effective founder of Nazism. Hitler gained power during Germany's period of crisis following World War I. Using propaganda and charismatic oratory, he appealed to the economic needs of the lower and middle classes, while sounding resonant chords of nationalism, antisemitism, and anti-communism. More »
Alois Hitler
Alois Hitler was the father of Adolf Hitler. More »
Alois Hitler, Jr.
Alois Hitler, Jr., born Alois Matzelsberger , was the son of Alois Hitler and Franziska Matzelsberger and the half-brother of Adolf Hitler. He was born while his father was still married to his first wife, Anna. After Anna died and his parents were married, Alois was legitimised and his name was changed to Alois Hitler, Jr. He was soon joined by a sister, Angela Hitler. When he was two years old his mother died and his father married Klara Pölzl, a niece with whom he had a long-standing... More »
Klara Hitler
Klara Hitler, born Klara Pölzl , was the mother of Adolf Hitler with her husband Alois Hitler. Born in the Austrian village of Spital, Weitra, she was the daughter of Johann Pölzl and Johanna Hiedler. Either Klara's grandfather Johann Nepomuk Hiedler or his brother were also likely Alois' biological father. Moreover, Johann was her future husband's step-uncle. Even after they were married Klara still called her husband ''Uncle''. Author Bradley F. More »
Angela Hitler
Angela Hammitzsch, born Angela Hitler , first married to Leo Raubal, Sr., was the elder half-sister of Adolf Hitler. She was born in Braunau, Austria, the second child of Alois Hitler and his second wife, Franziska Matzelberger. Her mother died the next year. She and her brother Alois Hitler, Jr. were raised by their father and his third wife Klara Hitler. Her half-brother Adolf Hitler was born six years after her and they grew very close. She is the only one of his siblings mentioned in... More »
William Patrick Hitler
William Patrick Hitler , nicknamed Willy, was the nephew of Adolf Hitler. Born to Adolf's half-brother Alois Hitler, Jr., and his first wife Bridget Dowling, William later moved to Germany and subsequently escaped, eventually coming to the United States where he fought against his uncle in World War II. More »
Johann Nepomuk Hiedler
Johann Nepomuk Hiedler, also known as Johann Nepomuk Hüttler , was a maternal great-grandfather and possibly also the paternal grandfather of Adolf Hitler. Johann Nepomuk was named after a Czech Saint Johann von Nepomuk. Some view this name as evidence that Johann Nepomuk and subsequently his great-grandson Adolf Hitler had some Czech blood. Johann Nepomuk became a relatively prosperous farmer and was married to Eva Maria Decker who was fifteen years his senior. More »
Johann Georg Hiedler
In German history, Johann Georg Hiedler was born to Martin Hiedler and Anna Maria Goschl . He was considered the officially accepted grandfather of Adolf Hitler by the Third Reich. Whether he was in fact Hitler's biological paternal grandfather is considered unknown by modern historians. He made his living as a wandering journeyman miller. He married his first wife in 1824 but she died in childbirth five months later. In 1842, he married Maria Anna Schicklgruber and became the legal... More »
Eva Braun
Eva Anna Paula Braun, died Eva Hitler was the longtime companion of Adolf Hitler and briefly his wife. More »
Heinz Hitler
Heinrich Hitler was the son of Alois Hitler, Jr. and his second wife Hedwig Heidemann and the nephew of German dictator Adolf Hitler. When World War II started he joined the Wehrmacht and served on the eastern front, where he was captured and died in prison in 1942. Unlike his half-brother William Patrick Hitler, whom Adolf called "my loathsome nephew", Heinz was a strong Nazi and his uncle's favorite. He attended an elite Nazi military academy, the National Political Institutes of... More »
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