Was Hitler's mother Jewish?

Question

I vaguely remember there being some faint controversy which suggested this. Anyone read\heard anything similar?

Answer 1

Yes she was and black. And his father was gay

Answer 2

If you put 'Hitler's mother' in your search engine you will come up with a raft of websites that should give you all the info. you need to satisfy your curiosity. No, Hitler's mother was not Jewish but there is a suspicion that his grandfather may have been. I note that someone has said he, Hitler's grandfather, was perhaps 'half Jewish'. That is not possible because if your mother is Jewish then you are Jewish, Jewishness is passed through the matriarchal line i.e. if your mother is not Jewish and even if your father is Jewish then YOU are NOT Jewish. I think this makes good sense because as the saying goes 'It's a wise child who knows his own father'. It is thought that as many as one in ten of we British are not the children of our legal fathers. Interesting huh?

Answer 3

Nope, his mother wasn't Jewish. But many historians state that Hitler was part Jewish. Hitler's father was an illegitimate child, who had kept his mother's name (Schikelgruber) until he was 40. Then, HItler's dad changed his name to something close to Hitler(his father's name).
Yeah, it's all really confusing. But, my point is, Hitler probably had some Jewish ancestors, but his mother was definately not Jewish. His grandfather is said to be Jewish.
The funny thing here is that if Hitler's dad hadn't adopted hitler's granddad's name, people would have had to "Hail Schikelgruber" instead.

Answer 4

In school, when I was learning about Hitler and his rampage, I always found it curiously odd what he was fighting against. I remember seeing a poster in which there was a young German man with blond hair and blue eyes and this was fared as the way everybody should be (the way Hitler wanted everyone) and then there was a man with dark hair and dark eyes, a depicted "Jewish" man. This was the bad way to look.
Ummmm, yeah, ok.... Uh, Hitler, excuse me, but do you know what a mirror is? I had it stuck in my mind that if he thought that all Jewish people looked like that, then he must be Jewish also, correct? I automatically had the instinct that Hitler had to have had a Jewish background.
Anyways, that's what I've always struggled to understand. However, I don't know if it's true, but I had heard that it was. Whether or not it was his mother that was the Jewish part of him, I don't know.

Answer 5

No, his mother was not Jewish. But her father may have been. Hitler's maternal grandmother was a maid for a Jewish family. There were allegations of her having an affair with the head of the household, and the resulting love-child was Hitler's mother, Klara.

Those allegations were potentially very embarassing to Adolf, enough so that he tried to hide the fact that he may be 1/4 Jewish. But, those allegations are more than likely false.

As for the "Schicklgruber" name goes, Adolf's father, Alois, had the name changed from Schicklgruber to Hitler. Alois was born with the Schicklgruber surname, but changed it to that of his step-father, Johann Hitler. And besides, how funny would "Heil Schicklgruber!" sound?

Answer 6

Not sure if his mother was Jewish but there has always been a belief that someone in his family was Jewish.

In the early part of WW2 a British Intelligence Unit responsible for forging Nazi documents, made a forgery of Hitler's Nazi Party membership card, including the fact that his mother was Jewish.

The above may possibly be the source of the rumour.

Answer 7

I copy/pasted this from this source.

Hitler was not sure who his paternal grandfather was, but it was probably either Johann Georg Hiedler or his brother Johann Nepomuk Hiedler. There have been rumours that Hitler was one-quarter Jewish [1] and that his paternal grandmother, Maria Schicklgruber, had become pregnant after working as a servant in a Jewish household in Graz. 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. Soviet propaganda insisted Hitler was a Jew, though more modern research tends to diminish the probability that he had Jewish ancestors. According to Robert G. L. Waite in The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler, Hitler made it illegal for German women to work in Jewish households, and after the "Anschluss" (annexation) of Austria, Hitler had his father's hometown obliterated by turning it into an artillery practice area. Hitler seemed to fear that he was Jewish, and as Waite points out, this fact is more important than whether he actually was.

Answer 8

I don't think so the British tried to start a rumour that his mother's maiden name was schicklegruber < I'm not sure if i have spelt it correctly > but Hitlers personal doctor was half Jewish.

Answer 9

It has been debated, but it is thought that Hiltler's paternal grandmother (his father's mother, Maria Schicklgruber) was a cook in a Jewish household, and was herself a Jew. However, Hitler's father and mother were both Catholic, and Hitler was raised Catholic.
He believed Jews were the scum of the earth, and so denied any Jewish ancestry, as it would be contrary to his orders of 'kill anyone who has so much as a grandparent who was Jewish'.
According to recent evidence, he himself was 1/4 Jewish, having a Jewish grandparent.

Answer 10

Read "Hitler's Vienna" by Brigitte Harman. It demolishes once and for all the myth that Hitler had ANY Jewish ancestors.

Answer 11

Alright so everyone answering you is being a total jackass. Yes Hitler's mother was Jewish, that's why his genocide and Aryan race movement were so bizarre.