The mystery of the origin and the history of the family of Adolf Hitler: What the Fuhrer tried to hide

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

About a hundred kilometers northwest of Vienna, in northern Austria, is the small village of Döllersheim. Eighty years ago, this tiny Austrian village was wiped out by a German dictator with a comically short mustache. The dictator tried to hide, completely destroy everything that could help shed light on the history of his family. All that confirmed his very dubious Aryan origin.

It was here in Döllersheim that a woman named Maria Schicklgruber gave birth to an illegitimate child in 1837. This child was Alois Schicklgruber, father of Adolf Hitler. Maria was forty-two years old, she was unmarried and who was the father of her child is still not known for certain. The boy's baptism certificate at the local parish church did not identify his father. When Alois was five years old, Maria Schicklgruber married Johann Georg Hiedler. It was his surname that Adolf Hitler's father began to bear. And the pedigree of this particular family, Hitler, in the future, indicated in his family tree to confirm the purity of his origin.

Ever since Adolf Hitler became an influential political figure, historians have tried to uncover the mystery of Hitler's true origins. In light of the fact that Adolf claimed to be of Aryan descent. Until now, this mystery has not been solved. There are several assumptions and versions. Among several candidates for the biological father of Alois, historians have even indicated a Jew named Leopold Frankenberger. In the family of this man, Maria Schicklgruber worked as a cook. It was in the city of Graz. But the researchers refute this version by saying that they do not converge in time. While Maria became pregnant with Alois, there were no Jews in Graz.

Hitler at one time such guesses led to a state of apoplectic rage. “People don't have to know who I am,” he said. "They don't have to know where I am from." In 1931, Hitler ordered the SS to investigate alleged rumors of his origins and found no evidence of any Jewish ancestry. He then ordered a genealogist to prepare a large illustrated family tree showing his origins, which he published in Die Ahnentafel des Fuehrers (The Leader's Lineage) in 1937, where Hitler showed that he had an impeccable Aryan lineage.

More plausible, the researchers consider the version put forward by the historian Werner Mather. He believed that the real father of Alois Schicklgruber was Johann Nepomuk Hiedler. It was the brother of the man who married Maria Schicklgruber five years after the birth of the child. It was he who raised Alois and bequeathed most of his savings to him.

According to Mather, Nepomuk was a married farmer who had an affair with Maria. In an attempt not only to hide the romance, but also to take care of his son, Nepomuk persuaded his brother to marry a woman. This could provide a cover for his desire to help Mary and Alois.

But assumptions are assumptions. The facts say only one thing: the Fuhrer very carefully wanted to hide absolutely any information about his family and origin. The reasons why the name Hiedler became Hitler are unclear. Some historians put forward a version that this was just a phonetic inaccuracy or even an error of the notary, who wrote down the information from the words.

It is with an attempt to hide the secret of their origin that historians associate the destruction of the village of Döllersheim. Like, too many skeptics went there to ask the local population. People were evacuated and scattered in different places. And the village was literally razed to the ground. The leader of the nation ordered the construction of a military training ground there.

More than two thousand residents were forcibly displaced, and their houses were blown up during exercises. After the end of World War II, the training ground was captured by the Soviet Army and remains a military exclusion zone to this day. It is currently run by the Austrian Armed Forces. However, since 1981, the main square, the ruins of the Romanesque parish church of Saints Peter and Paul, and the surrounding cemetery have become available to visitors.

Adolf Hitler was a very controversial person. Clever, educated, no doubt possessed of a subtle romantic nature - one has only to look at his paintings. It does not fit in my head how such a person could have done so much evil. Nevertheless, it is so.

A well-known psychiatrist and teacher, associate of Sigmund Freud, Carl Gustav Jung, spoke very well and aptly about Adolf Hitler. Everyone should think about the deep meaning of his words. “His voice is nothing more than his own unconscious, into which the Germans have projected themselves; it is the unconscious of seventy-eight million Germans.”If you are interested in more details about the talents of the German dictator, read our article on paintings by Adolf Hitler.