Was Hitlers mother Jewish?
Not sure if his mother was Jewish but there has always been a belief that someone in his family was Jewish. In the early part of WW2 a British Intelligence Unit responsible for forging Nazi documents, made a forgery of Hitler’s Nazi Party membership card, including the fact that his mother was Jewish. The above may possibly be the source of the rumour.
I copy/pasted this from this source. Hitler was not sure who his paternal grandfather was, but it was probably either Johann Georg Hiedler or his brother Johann Nepomuk Hiedler. There have been rumours that Hitler was one-quarter Jewish [1] and that his paternal grandmother, Maria Schicklgruber, had become pregnant after working as a servant in a Jewish household in Graz. During the 1920s, the implications of these rumours along with his known family history were politically explosive, especially for the proponent of a racist ideology. Opponents tried to prove that Hitler, the leader of the anti-Semitic Nazi Party, had Jewish or Czech ancestors. Although these rumours were never confirmed, for Hitler they were reason enough to conceal his origins. Soviet propaganda insisted Hitler was a Jew, though more modern research tends to diminish the probability that he had Jewish ancestors. According to Robert G. L. Waite in The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler, Hitler made it illegal for German
If you put ‘Hitler’s mother’ in your search engine you will come up with a raft of websites that should give you all the info. you need to satisfy your curiosity. No, Hitler’s mother was not Jewish but there is a suspicion that his grandfather may have been. I note that someone has said he, Hitler’s grandfather, was perhaps ‘half Jewish’. That is not possible because if your mother is Jewish then you are Jewish, Jewishness is passed through the matriarchal line i.e. if your mother is not Jewish and even if your father is Jewish then YOU are NOT Jewish. I think this makes good sense because as the saying goes ‘It’s a wise child who knows his own father’. It is thought that as many as one in ten of we British are not the children of our legal fathers. Interesting huh?
No, his mother was not Jewish. But her father may have been. Hitler’s maternal grandmother was a maid for a Jewish family. There were allegations of her having an affair with the head of the household, and the resulting love-child was Hitler’s mother, Klara. Those allegations were potentially very embarassing to Adolf, enough so that he tried to hide the fact that he may be 1/4 Jewish. But, those allegations are more than likely false. As for the “Schicklgruber” name goes, Adolf’s father, Alois, had the name changed from Schicklgruber to Hitler. Alois was born with the Schicklgruber surname, but changed it to that of his step-father, Johann Hitler. And besides, how funny would “Heil Schicklgruber!” sound?
