Tom was right. The picture in my previous post (and this one) is of Klara Polzl Hitler, Adolf Hitler's mother.
I found the pic while flipping through and old book I had and it hit me that I never even considered that Adolf Hitler had a family. Being such a diabolical figure in history, for some reason in my mind he existed as a sole entity that appeared in time without a family history or future (I think in my mind he existed in the same way I would imagine the devil, but in this case we are talking about an actual human being who actually lived). I guess I also never pictured him as a child, only as the confused, demented syphilis ridden middle aged man who is prominently featured on the history channel. Its hard to explain but I guess I don't picture someone who murdered millions of people to have had a normal family dynamic or any family dynamic for that matter. I think that my thoughts are so influenced by films that I subconsciously fill in the untold parts of the story (not with necessarily the most logical events but maybe the ones most important to the overall plot). Prior to finding the picture, in my brain Adolf Hitler just showed up in Germany one day without a back story. I know the parts of his history that contain all the atrocities so the rest had been filed as unimportant.
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ReplyDeleteInteresting post.
ReplyDeleteI don't know whether considering his life makes what he did more or less scary.
I guess more because that means a child has the potential to be that evil.
Ha! I just realized I felt the same way as you did - that he just popped onto the face of the earth!!
ReplyDeleteSo strange that he should have been spawned of a woman!
Great post :)
I just found it amazing that Google had an Ad about Jewish geneology in respose to the word Hitler I guess.Who will ever figure out how AdSense really works! Let me know if you do!
ReplyDeleteI had to look at that ad,it just seemed like the way to show support somehow,for the Jewish community I mean.
It's strange to think of someone like Hitler as a human being. It was weird to see his paintings, for example.
ReplyDeleteIn all honesty, they weren't very good.
Apparently, his surviving relatives are living in New York State.
ReplyDeleteThis is quite an interesting viewpoint.
ReplyDeleteI agree, you never realize that anyone who commits these atrocities has a relative or two somewhere in the world. Hell, Jeffrey Dahmer, Charlie Manson, Gary Gilmore...they have a cousin or a sibling floating around.
Martha Stewart, however, was hatched by aliens. I know this for a fact.
Sudiegirl
Some time ago while browsing the WEB I did find Hitler´s genealogy. The site has pictures of him as a baby, child and his family too. Really interesting, if you like the black side of human history.
ReplyDeleteYou should read Levin's Boys From Brazil.
ReplyDeleteaha! I know how that guy knew who she was...
ReplyDeleteif you right-click on the picture and go to "save image as", it will tell you!
I was just amazed myself after doing genealogy research through my grandmother's side of the family. That we are definitely related to Klara Polzl, amazing isn't it? The funny part is that my grandmother, married my grandfather, of course, and he is of a jewish descendant.
ReplyDeleteim doing a project for school right now on adolf hitler and i never even knew exactly who he was till this project i never really payed too much attention to him he didnt seem that important to me and still he doesnt seem like a huge figure in american history to me....so why do we have to learn about him now?
ReplyDeleteApparently Klara died from a Gunshot.... didn't she??
ReplyDeleteAnd Hitler's Dad "Alois Schicklgruber" has an interesting history....
His Mother "Maria Anna Schicklgruber" was working for "Baron Salomon Mayer von Rothschild" when she became pregnant with her only child...
so there is a 25% chance that he has Rothschild lineage...as there are 4 possible fathers....
I want to quote your post in my blog. It can?
ReplyDeleteAnd you et an account on Twitter?
Klara was Alois' second cousin.
ReplyDeleteAlois was very cruel to young Adolf.
so there's a possibility that his real biological father was a Filipino Doctor known to have affairs with many young beautiful women...
http://shio7sins.blogspot.com/2008/05/jose-rizal-and-adolf-hitler-relatives.html