Am i related to HItler?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitle⦠Adolf’s father, Alois Hitler, (1837-1903), was a customs official. His mother, Klara Polzl, (1860-1907), was Alois’ third wife (either her grandfather Johann Nepomuk Hiedler or his brother were also likely Alois’ biological father. Moreover, Johann was her future husband’s stepuncle, and even after they were married Klara still called her husband “Uncle”), .so a papal dispensation–since Klara was a devout Catholic–had to be obtained for the marriage. Alois Hitler was an illegitimate child. For the first 39 years of his life he bore his mother’s surname, Schicklgruber. In 1876, he took the surname of his stepfather, Johann Georg Hiedler. The name was spelled Hiedler, Huetler, Huettler and Hitler, and probably regularized to Hitler by a clerk. Allied propaganda exploited Hitler’s original family name during World War II. Pamphlets bearing the phrase “Heil Schicklgruber” were