(Jewish Group) The roots of the zombie claim that Hitler had 'Jewish blood'
The source of this story stems from a documented fact: Hitler’s father was born out of wedlock and Hitler’s grandfather has never been revealed. That left open the possibility that Hitler’s grandfather was Jewish — and Hitler himself was one-quarter Jewish. (In the Jewish tradition at the time, however, Jewishness descended from the mother’s line.)
During Hitler’s rise to power, the missing information about his grandfather led to speculation about a possible Jewish ancestry. Then, in 1953, the memoir of Hitler’s personal lawyer, Hans Frank, was published, seven years after he had been executed during the Nuremberg trials for crimes committed when he headed the government of Nazi-occupied Poland.
In the book, “In the Face of the Gallows,” Frank claimed he had dug into Hitler’s ancestry after Hitler’s half-nephew threatened to blackmail the Fuehrer into revealing his Jewish past. Frank claimed that he discovered that Hitler’s paternal grandmother, Maria Anna Schicklgruber, gave birth in 1837 to Hitler’s father, Alois, while working as a cook for a Jewish family in Graz, a city in Austria. Schicklgruber was 42 at the time.
No father was originally listed for Alois in baptism documents, which recorded the birth as “illegitimate.” But Frank claimed that letters exchanged between Hitler’s grandmother and the family — known as Frankenberger — showed a family member, possibly a 19-year-old son, impregnated Hitler’s grandmother and the family paid for child support.
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