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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Firestone

Pseudowetenschappen op zijn best!
I rest my case.

Een boek over Hitler gepubliceeerd in Londen in 1940 door een overgelopen Duitser. Mja, echt wel naïef te denken dat het een anti-Hitler boek was!

Jongens, toch.

Allez, terug on-topic.

Er is dus tot nu toe niet het minste bewijs gepost dat Hitler's moeder of Hitler's grootvader Joods waren. QED.

Het is niet alleen Koehler, ook Hans Frank die dicht bij Hitler stond vertelt dit in zijn memoirs. Hier nog meer interessante informatie:

William Patrick tried to gain advantage from his famous uncle by more direct means: blackmail. At least this is the story told by Hitler's close associate Hans Frank, in the course of his trial as a war criminal at Nuremberg. In order to understand Frank's testimony it is necessary to take a look at Hitler's peculiar family background and his sensitivity towards it.

Hitler's father, Alois, was born on 7 June 1837 to Maria Anna Schickelgruber, unmarried daughter of Johann Schickelgruber from the village of Strones in Lower Austria. The entry in the baptismal register of Dollerscheim parish shows that the baby was christened Alois Schickelgruber. The space in the register for the father's name was left blank.
When Alois was five years old, his mother married a mill worker named Johann Georg Hiedler. Alois was passed over to his step-father's brother, who raised him like his own son.
In 1876, when he was 39, Alois, now a customs official in the Austrian service, succeeded in persuading his foster father, Johann Nepomuk Hiedler, to have his birth records altered. In the old register, under the entry of 7 June 1837, the parish priest was persuaded to change the term 'illegitimate' to 'legitimate', to fill in the name Johann Georg Hiedler in the blank space for the name of the father *p; accidently mis-spelling it 'Johann Georg Hitler' in the process, and to insert a marginal note: 'The undersigned confirm that Georg Hitler, registered as the father, who is well known to the undersigned witnesses, admits to being the father of the child Alois as stated by the child's mother, Anna Schickelgruber, and has requested the entry of his name in the present baptismal register'. Three illiterate witnesses appended their marks to the statement. The statement was clearly false if only to the extent that by this time both the mother and alleged father had been dead for about twenty years. From January 1877 Alois Schickelgruber called himself Alois Hitler.

In later years, Adolf Hitler's political enemies tried to ridicule him by claiming that he had changed his name to Hitler because 'Heil Schickelgruber' did not roll as trippingly off the tongue as 'Heil Hitler'. This, of course, was nonsense since Hitler's father used the surname Hitler twelve years before the birth of his infamous son.

Hitler's father's marital experiences made the family background even more curious. He was married three times. His first marriage, to Anna Glassl who was fourteen years his senior, was childless. He was 46 when he married for the second time. Franziska Matzenberger, his new bride was 22. She had already borne him a son before their marriage, Alois junior, the future Shelbourne waiter. Two months after the wedding she gave birth to a daughter called Angela. When Franziska died of T.B. Alois married Klara Polzl. She was 23 years younger than him. He had to get a papal dispensation for the marriage as Klara was the daughter of his niece. Of the six children born of this marriage, two survived, Adolf and a younger sister called Paula.
During his lifetime, Hitler was very secretive about his background. Only the dimmest outline of his parents emerges from the biographical chapters of Mein Kampf. He falsified his father's occupation, changing him from a customs official to a postal official. He repulsed relatives who tried to approach him.
One of the first things he did after taking over Austria was to have a survey carried out of the little farming village of Dollerscheim where his father's birth had been recorded. The purpose of the survey of March 1938 was to ascertain the suitability of the village as an artillery range for the Wehrmacht. As soon as it could be arranged the inhabitants were evacuated and the entire village was demolished by heavy artillery. Even the graves in the cemetery where his grandmother had been buried were rendered unrecognisable.

When in 1942 he was informed that a plaque had been set up for him in the village of Spital, where he had spent some time as a youth, he flew into one of his violent rages and demanded its immediate removal. For some time his younger sister Paula ran his household at Obersalzberg, but he made her take another name.

His obsession for secrecy has been explained as the strategy of a born propagandist. A man of mystery arouses interest in himself. The fact that at the beginning of his career he took care that no pictures of himself were published gives some credence to this theory. Perhaps Hitler never lost a sense of the distance between his origins and the elevated position he had attained. However, there is a far simpler explanation for Hitler's need to keep public attention away from his genealogy. The Nazis were obsessed with 'racial purity'. An essential requirement for membership of the elite S.S was positive proof of Aryan descent from 1750. Hitler would have failed this test. He did not know who his paternal grandfather was.

Under these circumstances the letter sent to Adolf Hitler towards the end of 1930 by his nephew William Patrick, must have had a devastating effect. It referred to the 'very odd circumstances in our family history', and went on to claim not only that Hitler had a Jewish grandfather but that documentary evidence existed which proved the connection.

Hans Frank was given the job of confidentially investigating this very sensitive affair. Frank did so and discovered, he said, that Hitler's father had been the illegitimate son of Maria Anna Schickelgruber, who had worked as a domestic in Graz in the home of a Jewish family by the name of Frankenberger. From the day that Alois, Hitler's father, had been born until the boy was fourteen, Frankenberger paid money for the support of the child. According to Frank, Hitler did not deny that his grandmother had been in receipt of money from the Jew Frankenberger but he denied that Frankenberger was his grandfather.

The blackmail story is based entirely on the memoirs of Hans Frank. He was a close associate of Hitler. As well as being his personal lawyer, he was later given special powers: President of the Academy of German Law, member of the Reichstag, leader of the National Lawyers' Association and Governor-General of Poland. At the time of writing his memoirs he was awaiting execution in Nuremberg for war crimes in Poland, where his activities had earned him the name 'the Butcher of Poland'. Frank had converted to Catholicism while under sentence of death and he wrote his memoirs partly to expiate his sins. He had no reason to misrepresent Hitler or to invent the story. Frank said the evidence was based on correspondence between Maria Anna Schickelgruber and Frankenberger. He said that these letters were for some time in the possession of a lady related to Hitler by marriage. This evidence has never surfaced and subsequent exhaustive investigations have failed to clarify the situation.