HITLER'S MOTHER
(Own Corrospondenfc
A Peasant Woman, To Whom Son was Devoted
— Bv Air Mail.)
LONDON, April 24. It ig true that Herr Hitler has done Httle to enlighten the public about his aneestry, and that, because of this obscurity, his enemies have put f orward all kinds of disparaging suggestions. He is, however, devoted to the memory of his mother, and her photograph can or could be' until recently, bought anywhere iu Munich as a picture p'pstcard. It is the sarae - picture , which Herr Hitler wore on his breast throughout the war. The face is serious and not unattractive, and the likeness to tho Fuehrer is unmistakable. Fr. Hitler was a peasant woman called KlaTa Poelzl and was born qt Spital in Austria. Left a widow when her son was only fourteen, ehe superintended his education for five years, insisting that he should continue his studies. S£e died in 1908, when' Adolf Hitler- was nineteen.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 106, 21 May 1937, Page 6
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