Paula Hitler, known as Paula Wolff and Paula Hitler-Wolff, was the younger sister of Adolf Hitler and the last child of Alois Hitler and his third wife, Klara Polzl.
13 Facts About Paula Hitler
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Paula Hitler was born in Hafeld, Fischlham, Upper Austria on 21 January 1896 to Alois Hitler and Klara Hitler nee Polzl.
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Paula Hitler was Adolf Hitler's only full sister and only full sibling who would survive to adulthood.
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Paula Hitler was six years old when her father, a retired customs official, died, and eleven when she lost her mother Klara, after which the Austrian government provided a small pension to Paula and Adolf.
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Paula Hitler was delighted to meet him again in Vienna during the early 1930s.
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Paula Hitler worked as a secretary in a military field hospital for much of World War II.
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Paula Hitler was arrested by US counter-intelligence officers on 26 May 1945 and interviewed on 12 July.
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Paula Hitler characterized her childhood relationship with her brother as one of both constant bickering and strong affection.
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Paula Hitler said that she could not bring herself to believe that her brother had been responsible for the Holocaust.
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Paula Hitler had told them that she had met Eva Braun only once.
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Paula Hitler returned to Berchtesgaden on 1 December 1952 and took up full-time residence there under the name "Paula Wolff" or "Paula Hitler-Wolff", in connection with a claim she had filed under Hitler's will, which had been denied by a court.
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Paula Hitler talked mostly about Hitler's childhood and refused to answer any political questions.
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Five months after her death, the Federal Court in Berchtesgaden issued a certificate of inheritance in which Paula Hitler was awarded two-thirds of Hitler's estate.