Is it true that Adolf Hitler was part Jew himself?

Answer 1

There is no historic basis for the conspiracy theory that Hitler was Jewish or had Jewish ancestry.

The claim is based on the fact that Adolf Hitler's father Alois was illegitimate, having no named father when he was born to Hitler's grandmother, Anna Maria Schicklgruber. The suggestion was that Hitler's father was the son of a wealthy Jewish Austrian named Frankenberger, who employed Anna while she was living in Graz, Austria. This suggestion was first made by the former Nazi Governor-General of Poland, Hans Frank, in his autobiography. Frank claimed that whilst working as a maid, Hitler's grandmother was impregnated by Frankenberger (or his son) and subsequently gave birth to Hitler's father. This claim was picked up in the 1960s and '70s by several authors, such as Dietrich Bronder and Hennecke Karde.

Historical research has since dismissed this as fabrication, as census and historical documentation show that no Jews called Frankenberger lived in Graz at any time during the 19th Century, and also that his mother, Anna Maria Schicklgruber, was not living in Graz at the time.

According to German-Austrian historian and author Brigitte Hamann*, the reason for Frank's claim was that, as a rabid anti-Semite, Frank wanted to pass responsibility for a supposedly Jewish Hitler to the Jews he so hated, and to unsettle them with rumors and misinformation. (Frank was tried and executed at Nuremberg in 1946.)

(*Brigitte Hamann: Hitlers Wien , Piper, Munich 1996, p.77 - English title Hitler's Vienna: A Dictator's Apprenticeship, Oxford University Press, 1999)
No

Answer 2

No. Or, better, there's no definitive evidence for it.

Concerning Genetics

There is some evidence that relatives of Hitler may have some kind of connection to a group of people that includes Jews, but this is a very long way from "Hitler was part Jewish".

Jean-Paul Mulders, a Belgian journalist, and Marc Vermeeren, a historian, tested saliva samples taken from 39 relatives of Adolf Hitler. They found a common link- a chromosome called Haplogroup E1b1b1...this chromosome is uncommon to Western Europe; It is found in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, and among Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews.

This doesn't actually prove anything ... it could be explained equally well if Hitler's relatives are part Moroccan. There were some Nazis running around in Casablanca, so maybe...

Concerning Hitler's Out-of-Wedlock Father

There have been rumors before that Hitler was possibly of Jewish descent (if they were true he wouldn't have been considered a Jew under Jewish law, but he might have under German law).

The Rumor of Hans Frank

The rumors centered on Hitler's father. Hitler's father was born out of wedlock, and one of Hitler's henchmen, Hans Frank, declared during the Nuremberg Trials that Hitler's grandmother had worked in the town of Graz as a servant in the home of a Jewish family named Frankenberger. He further claimed that she was seduced by a 19-year-old son of the family and that Hitler's father Alois Schicklgruber (later Alois Hitler, after Maria Schicklgruber married Johann Hiedler and Johann legitimatized Alois; the spelling change was because spelling was more of an art than a science at the time, and there are at least five known variants of the name) was the result of that liaison.

Wiesenthal Center's Analysis of the Claims

A subsequent analysis of Frank's statement by Simon Wiesenthal disclosed that there was no evidence of any Jewish family named Frankenberger ever living in Graz. What is more, Jews had been driven out of Graz in the 15th century and had not been allowed to return until 1856, nearly twenty years after Hitler's grandfather had been born.

Hitler's grandmother's maiden name was Schicklgruber. There is considerable evidence that this family produced abnormal progeny. Examples are: one of Hitler's relatives through his mother's side committed suicide in 1920, another, Aloisha had been placed in an insane asylum, another was "feeble-minded," and yet another was retarded.

According to the article from which I am quoting this material:"Hitler's real fear, then, was not that someone would discover that he had a Jewish grandfather, but that it would someday come to light that he carried a hereditary disposition toward mental illness and retardation."

Some sources for more information:

"Hitler's Family Secret: A file recovered from the Nazi Archives tells of a Gestapo investigation into the Fuehrer's murky family history." By: Ben S. Swearingen Civilization: The Magazine of the Library of Congress Volume 2, Number 2, Arcg/April 1995, pp. 54-55 Harry W. Mazal OBE.

"Hitler: Legend, Myth & Reality" by Werner Maser. After exhaustive research, Maser concludes very convincingly that Hitler was *not* part Jewish. Check out chapter 1 of the book if you want all the details.

Werner Maser's Analysis of the Claims The distinguished Hitler scholar Werner Maser was so irritated he claimed Frank made the whole thing up and believes that the true paternal grandfather was the brother of his legal grandfather, one Johann Nepomuk Hiedler. But that's not all. J. Nepomuk was also the grandfather of Klara Poelzl, Hitler's mom. In other words, J.N. was both Adolph's paternal grandfather and his maternal great-grandfather. I'm not about to tell you any of this was the proximate cause of Hitler's persecution of the Jews, his suicide, or anything else. Still, if you believe Maser, not only was Hitler twisted, so was his family tree.

Definitions of Judaism

This all comes down to definitions. A Gentile is someone who is not a Jew, that is a descendant of any of the twelve tribes of Israel. If someone's parents have no trace of jewish ancestry at all, then that person is definitely a Gentile.

However, in Judaic law a person's jewishness is automatically passed on through the maternal line that is, through the mothers: "Once a Jew, always a Jew".

This means that even if the mothers have converted from Judaism to another faith, they are still regarded under the jewish "Law of Return" as legally being Jews, but if the fathers have married non-Jewesses and have converted from Judaism to another faith, then his children are all Gentile (unless one of his sons or his sons' descendants then marries a Jewess, in which case all theirchildren are also regarded as being Jews). The Nazis determined their own official definition of what a Jew was following the Nuremberg Laws in 1935. According to Nazi German law, anyone with three Jewish grandparents was a Jew, as was anyone with two Jewish grandparents. In addition, anyone married to a Jewish person or who had one Jewish parent was also considered a Jew in the eyes of the law. However, Hitler had this Nazi law defining Jewishness written to exclude Jesus Christ and himself. (This exclusion is suspicious, unless you realize the problems with Hitler's own inability to prove his own ancestry.) This is a historical claim that has not been verified. The question is whether Alois (the father) had jewish ancestry but that is unclear and unknown.

Although there is speculation that Adolf Hitler's grandfather was Jewish, it has never been proven.

Answer 3

Often suggested, sometimes claimed, but no established historian buys into what is probably just an urban legend.

There have been rumours that Hitler was one-quarter Jewish and that his paternal grandmother, Maria Schicklgruber, had become pregnant while working as a servant in a the household of a Graz Jew called Franberger. 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.

AnswerNo. The Hitler family was Roman Catholic.

Hitler's grandfather was not Jewish. The standard version of the story focuses on Hitler's paternal grandfather. Hitler's father's mother is said to have worked as a maid for a Jew and there were rumours that Hitler's father was actually the employer's biological child. No evidence for this has ever been found.

Although there is no evidence that Hitler had a Jewish grandfather, supposedly his grandmother refused to reveal the identity of her child's father to her death. There was a suspicion that it was her Jewish employer, but there is no evidence of this, and Hitler certainly never spoke of it.

Hitler certainly hated Jews, as one can read in his book, 'Mein Kampf'. Most Austrian children were raised with a fear, mistrust and hatred of Jews, going back to medieval times, supported by the Catholic Church, that Hitler was born into. Hitler was filled with hatred towards many groups and people, and was a very angry man, as is obvious if you listen to his speeches.

To add to the answers

- I understand that Hitler made a point of destroying the building that would have held his father's birth certificate so the proof one way of the other was destroyed. (History Channel Documentary)

(Observations:

a. In the case of any illegitimate child whose mother refuses to name the father one would expect the entry in the Register of Births to be unrevealing and simply state 'Father: unknown'. In other words, it would have been uninformative in this respect.

b. It is true that the building(s) and the churchyard were destroyed in 1938 on Hitler's orders. He was presumably was nervous about some possible 'dark secret'. However, it's anyone's guess what it was. There has, for example, been speculation about a history of incest or insanity in his family. Perhaps, for that matter, the entry had been tampered with, for example, when his father changed his name in 1876 from from Schicklgruber to Hitler. The 'standard' story about a Jew named Frankenberger in Graz as the paternal grandfather has been discredited. However, it has allowed devotees of psychohistory a field day.

c. Presumably the records were open to public inspection between the time when Hitler first hit the headlines and the Anschluss in 1938. In other words, oponents had already had 14-15 years to look for spicy information. - Joncey).

Answer"There are rumors that the 19-year-old Jewish Boy, from the Jewish family Frankenberger, made Hitler's mother Klara Hitler pregnant. There is not enough information to prove whether or not he was really part Jewish, because when Adolf Hitler came to power, he destroyed all the Birth Certificates, Personal/Private Information, etc. of his family.

Therefore, this debate remains a mystery. Many say "No", many say "Yes". But no human being knows for sure... "

(even though 'Jewish' is specifically a religion it also refers to a collective groups of people and a culture). Click on the links below for more info:

AnswerIan Kershaw, "Hitler ...", Vol. 1, pp. 7-9 dismisses the story as nonsense. At the time when Hitler's grandmother worked as a servant in Graz for a family supposedly called Frankenberger (the 1830s) Jews were completely banned from living in Graz (and the whole province of Steiermark - Styria).

What's more, according to Kershaw, study of directories of Graz and the like for the 1830s and 1840s doesn't reveal any family called Frankenberger in Graz at all.

In other words, it's an urban legend.
No, he was a Roman Catholic.

Answer 4

It is believed that Hitler's grandmother became pregnant after sex with Hitler's illegitimate father by a member of the Jewish family she was working as a servant for. This would make Adolph Hitler one quarter Jewish. Hitler later passed laws that German women were not allowed to work within Jewish homes.

Answer 5

yes, but partly because he himself witnessed his mom getting raped and killed by a Jewish doctor and only then he venged to kill all Jews and tried to deny the fact he was Jewish and a rapist/murderer

Answer 6

His father was a Jewish Priest, so according to his own rules, he should have been killed. But he was white.

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The #1 rule of Hitlerology is: Believe whatever takes your fancy. ;)

Answer 7

He wasn't Jewish, nor was he even part-Jewish. There is a myth that he had Jewish ancestry but no substantiated evidence has ever been produced to back this claim.

Because Hitler's father was illegitimate (no named father), there were suspicions that Alois Hitler (Schicklgruber) was actually the son of a Jewish man. However, after extensive research for the book Hitler: Legend, Myth, and Reality, author Werner Maser concluded that there was no basis in fact for any claim that Hitler, his father, or his grandfather or any other of his grandparents was Jewish.

Answer 8

No. Hitler's mother was not Jewish, but you're confusing this with another story. You're thinking of the myth that Hitler's grandmother got pregnant by a Jewish employer.

Maria Schicklgruber was Hitler's grandmother.Maria was born in the village of Strones in the Waldviertel region of Archduchy of Austria. Maria was a Catholic; what is known about her is based on church and other public records.
Maria was one of eleven children, only six of whom survived infancy. Her early life was that of a poor peasant child in a rural forested area, in the northwest part of Lower Austria, northwest of Vienna.
Other than saving her inheritance, which indicates she was not destitute during that period of her life, little is known about Maria's life until she was over 40.

In 1837, when she was 42 years old, and still unmarried, her first and only child was born. She named the boy Alois. Maser notes that she refused to reveal who the child's father was, so the priest baptized him Alois Schicklgruber and entered "illegitimate" in place of the father's name on the baptismal register.

A myth developed during the Nuremberg Trials that the father was a Jew named Leopold Frankenberger. Historians dismiss the Frankenberger story as baseless as there were no Jewish families in Graz at the time she became pregnant.

Answer 9

No, Hitler was not Jewish, and there is no evidence of a Jewish ancestor.

Maria Schicklgruber was Hitler's grandmother.Maria was born in the village of Strones in the Waldviertel region of Archduchy of Austria. Maria was a Catholic; what is known about her is based on church and other public records.
Maria was one of eleven children, only six of whom survived infancy. Her early life was that of a poor peasant child in a rural forested area, in the northwest part of Lower Austria, northwest of Vienna.
Other than saving her inheritance, which indicates she was not destitute during that period of her life, little is known about Maria's life until she was over 40.

In 1837, when she was 42 years old, and still unmarried, her first and only child was born. She named the boy Alois. Maser notes that she refused to reveal who the child's father was, so the priest baptized him Alois Schicklgruber and entered "illegitimate" in place of the father's name on the baptismal register.

A myth developed during the Nuremberg Trials that the father was a Jew named Leopold Frankenberger. Historians dismiss the Frankenberger story as baseless as there were no Jewish families in Graz at the time she became pregnant.

Answer 10

Adolf Hitle wasnt a Jew, He was Born in Hungary Austria.