Has the surname “Hitler” been confined to the annals of history?
Alois Hitler (born Alois Schicklgruber; 7 June 1837 – 3 January 1903) was the father of Adolf Hitler. Alois Hitler was born in the tiny rustic village of Strones in the Waldviertel, a hilly forested area in northwest Lower Austria just north of Vienna, to a 42-year-old unmarried peasant, Maria Anna Schicklgruber,[1] whose family had lived in the area for generations. After he was baptized at the nearby village of Döllersheim, the space for his father’s name on the baptismal certificate was left blank and the priest wrote “illegitimate” Hitler was cared for by his mother in a house she shared at Strones with her elderly father Johannes Schicklgruber. Sometime later, Johann Georg Hiedler (became Adolf Hitler’s step-father) moved in with the Schicklgrubers and married Maria when Alois was five. By the age of 10, Hitler had been sent to live with Hiedler’s brother Johann Nepomuk Hiedler, who owned a farm in the nearby village of Spital. Hitler attended elementary school and took lessons in
