1. Klara Hitler was the mother of Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.
14 Facts About Klara Hitler
2.
In 1934, Adolf Hitler honored his mother by naming a street in Passau after her.
3.
Klara Hitler was born in the Austrian Empire village of Weitra to Johann Baptist Polzl and Johanna Hiedler.
4.
In 1876,16-year-old Klara was hired as a household servant by her relative Alois Hitler, three years after his first marriage to Anna Glasl-Horer.
5.
Klara Hitler's mother was Hiedler's niece, making Klara Hitler and Alois first cousins once removed.
6.
Klara Hitler was very devoted to her children and, according to William Patrick Hitler, was a typical stepmother to her stepchildren, Alois, Jr.
7.
Klara Hitler was a devout Roman Catholic and attended church regularly with her children.
8.
Klara Hitler sold the house in Leonding and moved with young Adolf and Paula to an apartment in Linz, where they lived frugally.
9.
In 1906, Klara Hitler discovered a lump in her breast but initially ignored it.
10.
Klara Hitler had been busy with her household, she said, so had neglected to seek medical aid.
11.
The treatments proved futile, and Klara Hitler died at home in Linz from the toxic side effects of iodoform on 21 December 1907.
12.
Decades later, in 1940, Klara Hitler showed gratitude to Bloch, who was Jewish, for treating his mother, by allowing him to emigrate with his wife from Austria to the United States, a privilege allowed to few other Jews in Austria.
13.
Klara Hitler said that Hitler's most striking feature was his love for his mother:.
14.
On 28 March 2012, a descendant of Alois Hitler removed, without ceremony, the tombstone marking his and Klara's grave in Town Cemetery in Leonding, according to Kurt Pittertschatscher, the pastor of the parish.