Is it true that Hitler had Jewish blood in his family?

Question

I've heard this before, but i'm not sure if it's true..
What do you think?

Answer 1

It is correct

(Why thumbs down for stating a fact???)

Edit: The history of Hitler's family tree / bloodline is not "murky" as has been reported. The question was "Is it true that Hitler had Jewish blood in his family?". The answer is yes, he did. I don't know why this is such a bone of contention. There is also two members of Hitler;s family that now reside in the US who have confirmed this

Answer 2

The story goes that Hitlers grandmother got pregnant by a married Jew who hired her to clean his house.

A Jewish historian researched this and found this to be impossible because she was never hired by any Jews and where she lived and worked no Jews lived there because Jews were forbidden to enter that part of Austria for a few hundred years.

Even if it was true, under Jewish law Hitler would not be considered Jewish since the Jewish line comes from the female, not the male.

Answer 3

The idea that Hitler had Jewish blood in his family is nothing more than rumor and speculation. There are no hard facts to suggest this as truth. Hitler did work very hard to keep his family lineage a secret- because of this, many have speculated that it was over his embarrassment / shame over the Jewish blood in his family.
According to Jewish custom however, unless Hitler's mother was Jewish (which was not the case) or Hitler himself converted (which definitely was not the case) Hitler would never have been considered a Jew. While it is entirely possible that there were Jews in Hilter's lineage, many believe his embarrasment over his family tree had more to do with the fact that retardation and mental illness ran rampant through his family tree- this makes perfect sense.

It is funny how a rumor like this, though there are no facts to substantiate it, will run rampant and be passed around, even by seemingly intelligent historians as fact- just because it will get people's attentions nad it sounds really good. Kudos to you for asking for facts!

http://www.holocaust-history.org/questions/hitler-jewish.shtml

Answer 4

NO! It is not true and this lie has been spread around YA for as long as I can remember. Please read below...

The following information is from the Jewish Virtual Library

"hello! i am a ninth grader and i have been reasearching the holocaust for three years now and i am very interested in it. i have a question. my english teacher told me that Hitlers grandmother was Jewish and i was wondering if he did to her what he did to her what he did to the other jewish people. thank you very much"

Hitler's grandmother was not Jewish. There are some rumors hinting that Hitler's grandfather was Jewish. Few, if any, of the reputable historians on the Holocaust believe that this is so. It is more likely that Hitler tried to keep the murky history of his family quite secret because there was a high incidence of insanity and feeble-mindedness in his ancestors. Rumors die hard, though. One of Hitler's henchmen, Hans Frank, declared during the Nuremberg Trials in 1945-46, 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 the head of the household and that Hitler's grandfather was the result of that liaison. 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 Schickelgruber. 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 has a Jewish grandfather, but that it would someday come to light that he carried a hereditary disposition toward mental illness and retardation."

And you get thumbs down because you are providing false information! Edit: And I get thumbs down because I am providing true information that someone doesn't like. People think that things can't be true if they don't want them to be true. Doesn't objective truth mean anything anymore?

Answer 5

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. The implications of these rumours were politically explosive for the proponent of a racist ideology. Opponents tried to prove that Hitler had Jewish or Czech ancestors. Although these rumours were never confirmed, for Hitler they were reason enough to conceal his origins.

Answer 6

Willie Hitler have been given his uncle Adolf to get him a greater constructive activity by ability of threating to launch incriminating evidence. Willie's evidence replaced into Adolf's father had an affair yet, he concept Willie had got here across evidence of Jewish blood. nonetheless, there is not any evidence Hitler had Jewish blood.

Answer 7

Hitler's father was illegitimate so there is no way to really tell even though rumors persist

Answer 8

Well, since we all individually have millions of ancestors each only about 20 or so generations ago, you could say that we are pretty much all guaranteed to be related and have the same "blood".

Answer 9

i am jewish and 13. Hitler killed the majority of my family in the holocaust. His rule was if you had one jewish grandparent you were considered jewish. But under jewish law yo are only jewish if you mother is jewish. He had one jewish grandparent. So under his laws he was jewish but in a temple he would not be considered jewish.

Answer 10

Yes, on his mother's side, father's side, and step-father's side. They were all abusive to him, which is probably why he denied his Jewish heritage and hated the Jews.