What was Hitlers Nationality?
Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria, the fourth child of six.[1] His father, Alois Hitler, (1837–1903), was a customs official. His mother, Klara Pölzl, (1860–1907), was Alois’ third wife. She was also his cousin, so a papal dispensation had to be obtained for the marriage. Of Alois and Klara’s six children, only Adolf and his sister Paula reached adulthood.[2] Hitler’s father also had a son, Alois Jr, and a daughter, Angela, by his second wife.[2] Alois Hitler was born illegitimate. 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 changed to “Hitler” by a clerk. The origin of the name is either from the German word Hittler and similar, “one who lives in a hut”, “shepherd”, or from the Slavic word Hidlar and Hidlarcek. Hitler’s paternal grandfather was most likely one of the brothers Johann Georg Hiedle
