Hitler Was Jewish”: An Old Conspiracy Theory!– OnMyWay Mobile App User News

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s remarks at the weekend, which have sparked a diplomatic row with Israel, reheats rumours over the identity of Hitler’s paternal grandfather dating as far back as the 1920s.

Vienna: The suggestion by Russia’s foreign minister that Adolf Hitler had Jewish blood is just the latest version of a conspiracy theory exploiting a gap in the dictator’s ancestry.
Sergei Lavrov’s remarks at the weekend, which have sparked a diplomatic row with Israel, reheats rumours over the identity of Hitler’s paternal grandfather dating as far back as the 1920s.

Hitler’s father, Alois, was an illegitimate child whose own father was unknown, Austrian historian Roman Sandgruber told AFP.

Sandgruber, who last year published the first biography of Alois Hitler, explained that the rumours first began circulating in the 1920s, as Adolf Hitler began his rise to power.

The theory was encouraged by Hitler’s political rivals as the Nazi leader took control of Germany in 1933.

Then after World War II, the memoirs of Nazi war criminal Hans Frank, who governed occupied Poland during the war, revived the story.

In his memoirs, published after his 1946 execution for war crimes, Frank said he had secretly researched Hitler’s ancestry at the request of the Nazi leader himself.

“This must have been towards the end of the 1930s,” wrote Frank, in an extract published by Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine at the time.

Hitler, he said, had told him he was being blackmailed by a nephew over the matter.

– ‘No evidence’ –

Hitler’s paternal grandmother Maria Anna Schicklgruber gave birth to Alois in 1837.

Frank claimed to have discovered that, at the time, she was employed as a cook for a Jewish family by the name of Frankenberger, in the Austrian city of Graz.

Her employer had paid her maintenance until Alois reached the age of 14, wrote Frank, claiming that an exchange of letters between her and the family proved this.

Frank said Hitler had told him that actually his grandmother and her future husband had let the Jewish man think he was the father in order to get the money out of him.

But historians remain sceptical.

There is no solid evidence to support Frank’s claims, says Sandgruber. One problem is that, at the time in question, Jews did not have the right to live in Graz, he adds.

So who was Hitler’s grandfather? “This is a question without an answer,” historian Ofer Aderet wrote in Israel’s Haaretz newspaper Monday.

Some Nazis still aired this theory “as an attempt to provide an explanation for their defeat in World War II”, he argued.

“Other reports claimed that Hitler’s persecution of the Jews resulted from feelings of shame about his partial Jewish ancestry,” he added.

“The bottom line, though, is that there is no historical proof for any of this.”

Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid on Monday condemned Lavrov’s remarks as “an unforgivable and outrageous statement as well as a terrible historical error.

“Jews did not murder themselves in the Holocaust,” Lapid added. This kind of claim was the worst kind of anti-Semitism, he said.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett denounced Lavrov’s comments as “lies”, and the foreign ministry has summoned Russia’s ambassador for an explanation.

‘Hitler Was Jewish’: An Old Conspiracy Theory
Hitler’s father, Alois, was an illegitimate child whose own father was unknown, Austrian historian said.

Vienna: The suggestion by Russia’s foreign minister that Adolf Hitler had Jewish blood is just the latest version of a conspiracy theory exploiting a gap in the dictator’s ancestry.
Sergei Lavrov’s remarks at the weekend, which have sparked a diplomatic row with Israel, reheats rumours over the identity of Hitler’s paternal grandfather dating as far back as the 1920s.

Hitler’s father, Alois, was an illegitimate child whose own father was unknown, Austrian historian Roman Sandgruber told AFP.

Sandgruber, who last year published the first biography of Alois Hitler, explained that the rumours first began circulating in the 1920s, as Adolf Hitler began his rise to power.

The theory was encouraged by Hitler’s political rivals as the Nazi leader took control of Germany in 1933.

Then after World War II, the memoirs of Nazi war criminal Hans Frank, who governed occupied Poland during the war, revived the story.

In his memoirs, published after his 1946 execution for war crimes, Frank said he had secretly researched Hitler’s ancestry at the request of the Nazi leader himself.

“This must have been towards the end of the 1930s,” wrote Frank, in an extract published by Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine at the time.

Hitler, he said, had told him he was being blackmailed by a nephew over the matter.

– ‘No evidence’ –

Hitler’s paternal grandmother Maria Anna Schicklgruber gave birth to Alois in 1837.

Frank claimed to have discovered that, at the time, she was employed as a cook for a Jewish family by the name of Frankenberger, in the Austrian city of Graz.

Her employer had paid her maintenance until Alois reached the age of 14, wrote Frank, claiming that an exchange of letters between her and the family proved this.

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Frank said Hitler had told him that actually his grandmother and her future husband had let the Jewish man think he was the father in order to get the money out of him.

But historians remain sceptical.

There is no solid evidence to support Frank’s claims, says Sandgruber. One problem is that, at the time in question, Jews did not have the right to live in Graz, he adds.

So who was Hitler’s grandfather? “This is a question without an answer,” historian Ofer Aderet wrote in Israel’s Haaretz newspaper Monday.

Some Nazis still aired this theory “as an attempt to provide an explanation for their defeat in World War II”, he argued.

“Other reports claimed that Hitler’s persecution of the Jews resulted from feelings of shame about his partial Jewish ancestry,” he added.

“The bottom line, though, is that there is no historical proof for any of this.”

Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid on Monday condemned Lavrov’s remarks as “an unforgivable and outrageous statement as well as a terrible historical error.

“Jews did not murder themselves in the Holocaust,” Lapid added. This kind of claim was the worst kind of anti-Semitism, he said.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett denounced Lavrov’s comments as “lies”, and the foreign ministry has summoned Russia’s ambassador for an explanation.

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Russia has repeatedly justified what it calls its “special military operation” in Ukraine as a mission to “demilitarise” and “denazify” the country.

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