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The Unpublished Papers: Here's How Alois Hitler Pushed His Son To Become The Monster Everyone Knows

2024-12-19 00:05:26 / MISTERE&KURIOZITETE ALFA PRESS

The Unpublished Papers: Here's How Alois Hitler Pushed His Son To Become

The figure of Adolf Hitler continues to remain an important topic of discussion in today's academic environment. Earlier this year, Austrian historian Roman Sandgruber published the first biography of Alois Hitler, the German dictator's father, based largely on 31 unpublished letters discovered only three years ago.

It turns out that for more than a century, Alois Hitler's year-long correspondence with the man who sold him a country house in Upper Austria sat forgotten in an attic, before it was accidentally discovered by the recipient's great-granddaughter. Alois.

This discovery describes the events before the birth and during the childhood of the man who would later lead Germany. Sandgruber describes Alois Hitler as a self-taught man who believed in himself far more than in others, and this is borne out by new data from his study.

In this sense, this new information about Adolf Hiler's father directly affects the biography of the National Socialist, since for the first time there are parallels between the two. Because of Adolf Hitler's character, very little is known about his childhood and past before his political career.

The Austrian preferred not to talk about his personal affairs, and for years various hypotheses have been floated about his origins. "When the Nazis began to ascend, and when Adolf Hitler emerged as a national political figure, there was some speculation about the idea that Adolf's unknown grandfather was Jewish, but there was never any reliable evidence to confirm these rumours," he writes. historian Thomas Childers in his book "The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany".

Born on April 20, 1889, on the Austro-German border, Alois was a customs official with liberal views. However, Roman Sandgruber claims that the young Adolf first heard words full of hatred towards the Slavic population, and of an iron German nationalism, precisely from the mouth of his father.

He expected the young Adolf to follow in his footsteps in government service, and did not support his artistic aspirations. On the other hand, if his father failed to take his ideas beyond theory, his son would put them into practice. The similarities between the two are many, even Hitler's signature was identical to his father's.

However, the relationship between the two did not exclude violence, to which both Alois's wife and son fell prey. As the "Times" newspaper points out, Alois was an authoritarian father who "exerted considerable violence against his son, and treated his wife aggressively."

The letters that the author exposes in the new book date back to 1895, when the future dictator was only 6 years old, and they show the economic difficulties that the family experienced at the end of the 19th century. Another myth that falls thanks to this historical discovery, is that of the fragile personality of Hitler's mother, Klara.

The writer refers to one of the letters, where Alois explains how his wife organized the domestic economy of the family, where he himself was shaky. If that wasn't enough, the family used some of Clara's money to buy the country house, which they would later sell due to financial difficulties.

Alois Hitler died in 1903, when the future leader of the Reich was only 14 years old. His death relieved Adolf and Clara of the pressure, although the two would soon part ways, due to her death from breast cancer.

The diagnosis given by the Jewish doctor Eduard Blok was depressing for Adolf. "Hitler's main concerns after leaving school were his financial security, his intimate life, his career as a painter and his mother's health," says Professor Brendan Sims in his book "Hitler: The World Was Enough for Him."

Clara died on December 21, 1907, and it should be noted that the orphan Adolf never blamed the Jewish doctor for his mother's death. His anti-Semitism would develop years later, and little by little Adolf Hitler turned into the monster everyone knows him to be.

In his book "Mein Kampf" (My Struggle), where he recalls some moments from his childhood, he writes that he admired his father, but loved his mother more. The biography, published in German by Roman Sandgruber, brings not only new information about his parents, but helps to solve the mystery about the man who tried to dominate Europe and the world. For now, the 31 well-preserved letters with their envelopes and seals will be auctioned off to museums so they can be seen by all.

 

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