was hitler really part jewish?

Question

everyone says his grandmother was jewish, but i don't think that is true. is it all just a myth?

Answer 1

Hitler was not jewish, and some say his grandmother was but this is untrue and check the website below to see.

Hitlers grandmother worked as a servant for a Jewish family thats about it..... and even that is disputed because the area in which hitlers grandmother lived had banned jews from living in there from the time she feel pregnant with one of hitlers parents.

I think the fact whether or not he may have been part Jewish, doesn't change the fact that he was pure evil and completly insane and or mad.

Hitler and the nazis don't need to be remembered its his victims that need to be remembered. Why is it that any murderer, ends up becoming infamous in history but their victims dissapear from history.

I can name plenty of mass murderers but none of their victims names. Its sad a world we live in sometimes...

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Was_Hitler_part_Jewish

Answer 2

At 6:30 p.m. on the evening of April 20, 1889, he was born in the small Austrian village of Braunau Am Inn just across the border from German Bavaria.

Adolf Hitler would one day lead a movement that placed supreme importance on a person's family tree even making it a matter of life and death. However, his own family tree was quite mixed up and would be a lifelong source of embarrassment and concern to him.

His father, Alois, was born in 1837. He was the illegitimate son of Maria Anna Schicklgruber and her unknown mate, which may have been someone from the neighborhood or a poor millworker named Johann Georg Hiedler. It is also remotely possible Adolf Hitler's grandfather was Jewish.


Maria Schicklgruber was said to have been employed as a cook in the household of a wealthy Jewish family named Frankenberger. There is some speculation their 19-year-old son got her pregnant and regularly sent her money after the birth of Alois.

Adolf Hitler would never know for sure just who his grandfather was.

Answer 3

Ian Kershaw, the author of one of the suitable biographies of Hitler and an regarded Hitler authority, brushed aside the claims of Jewish history, as have maximum different modern-day historians. The confusion (conspiracy theory) arises by using fact Hitler's father grow to be illegitimate. His mom then married and the husband admitted paternity and claimed Alois as his son. in comparison data is the hearsay that Hitler's mom worked for a Jewish family contributors and he or she had fallen pregnant to the son. besides the undeniable fact that, the family contributors does no longer seem to have existed on the city or on the time that this seduction supposedly occurred. on the stability of probability, Hitler did no longer have Jewish ancestry (a minimum of no longer in his knowable previous), yet for sure, something is feasible.

Answer 4

During the World War II Era, Hitler found out that his father's illegitimate father could have been Jewish. Since there were no records of his grandfather, anywhere, he figured that he must be Jewish, when he annexed Austria, he tried to erase all evidence of his past.

Answer 5

Thats kind of ironic, for instance Andy Grove, his original name being Grof (former CEO and Chairman of the board at Intel) states in his biography that he was of Hungarian descent and both of his parents were non-observant Jews, as his family was on many occasions pursued by the Arrow Cross(Magyar pro-Nazi government) if Hitler was part Jewish and didnt practice Judeo theology why would Grove be considered a Jew.

Answer 6

There were rumours that Hitler was one-quarter Jewish and that his grandmother, Maria Schicklgruber, became pregnant while working as a servant in a Jewish household.

These rumours were never confirmed.

Answer 7

He probably wasn't Jewish, but it can't be completely ruled out. His grandmother wasn't Jewish, but his father was illegitimate and it is still unknown who his grandfather was. Hitler himself was so worried about it that he had the Nazi law defining Jewishness written to exclude Jesus Christ and himself.

Answer 8

But while Hitler probably didn't have any Jewish blood, it can't be completely ruled out. Hitler's father was illegitimate and to this day there is some question about who his grandfather was. Throughout his career he was dogged by rumors about his pedigree, some of them circulated by his fellow Nazis.

Answer 9

No, Hitler was Roman Catholic on both sides. His father's origins are unknown on his father's paternal side (illegitimate), so that allows people to develop an irony that implies there might have been a Jewish strand running down the family. I keep reading here that his mother was Jewish....NOT! She was VERY Catholic! He was very fond of his mother; his father was an autocrat with whom Hitler was never close.

Answer 10

He wasn't German, probably had some Jewish ancestor in the family tree somewhere, who knows, if we had a sample of him for genetic testing, we could find out. Russia supposed to have a piece of him. It wouldn't surprise any intelligent person if he showed Semitic ancestry, would it? 6 out of 10 Europeans probably do, maybe more. Hitler was born Austrian not German.