Adolph Hitler - Jew
The myth that Hitler was a Jew began to spread in the 1930s, when newspapers were looking for sensational stories after the Nazis came to power. Alois Schicklgruber, Hitler's father, was born to an unmarried peasant woman in 1837. Hitler’s father was an illegitimate child and it is uncertain who his father was, but there is no evidence for the legend that this unidentified grandfather was Jewish. According to one version, a Jewish family with the surname Hitler lived in Bucharest. According to another version, Hitler's father was born as a result of a relationship between a member of the Viennese branch of the Rothschild family and a non-Jewish servant.
Alois Schicklgruber received the surname of his mother, the servant Maria Anna Schicklgruber. Johann Georg Hiedler, whom she married a few years later, was only a stepfather, raised the boy and did Hiedler's brother, Johann Nepomuk Güttler. When, many years later, he decided to officially adopt an already adult adopted son, then, as the well-known monograph of Joachim Fest says, he came with his escorts to the house of the local pastor, after which he retroactively made changes to the book of acts of civil status: now it turned out that Johann Georg allegedly recognized his paternity during his lifetime (by that time he had long died). True, Fest writes that instead of signatures, the witnesses put crosses, and in general everything went clearly beyond all formal requirements.
Thus, the identity of Adolf Hitler's grandfather was not documented, which gave unlimited scope for speculation, up to the name Rothschild, especially since Hitler himself avoided this topic. A clearer direction to these speculations was given by a note by Hans Frank, Hitler's lawyer and at some point the Governor-General of the occupied Polish regions. He compiled it already during the Nuremberg Trials, claiming that back in the early thirties he was admitted to the ambiguous correspondence of the Fuhrer with relatives - it contained hints of blackmail and some facts of the Hitler family biography.
The claim that the Fuhrer was a Jew was stated in his memoirs by the Governor-General of occupied Poland, Hans Frank. Frank claimed that Hitler's grandmother - Maria Anna Schicklgruber - gave birth to a child when she worked as a cook in the house of some Frankenbergers from the Austrian city of Graz. Frank was allegedly given the task of looking into this story. Frank claimed that in 1930 he discovered that Hitler's grandfather was Jewish on the paternal side and lived in the Austrian city of Graz. Hitler's nephew William Patrick Hitler allegedly wrote a letter to the Fuhrer in which he threatened to tell the public about it, in connection with which Hitler asked Frank to take up this matter as a lawyer.
During his investigation, so Frank claimed, he came across a correspondence dated 1836 between Hitler’s grandmother Maria Anna Schicklgruber and a man named Frankenberger, in whose family she worked. As follows from the letters, this man had a 19-year-old son, from whom the housekeeper allegedly became pregnant (...) In this correspondence, Frankenberger declared his willingness to pay child support until his 14th birthday.(...) The problem for Hitler was that Frankenberger and, therefore, his son were Jews.
This caused many years of controversy - whether Hitler's grandmother really lived in Graz at that time, whether Frankerberger lived there at that time, and whether Jews lived there at all at that time. Historians who have been actively involved in the biography of Hitler have constantly questioned Frank's claims, in particular because the correspondence to which he referred was never found in the archives, and in 1836 there were supposedly no Jews in Graz at all.
Historians claim that the Jews were expelled from Graz in the 15th century and returned around 1860, more than two decades after the birth of Alois Hitler. However, in 2019, Jewish psychologist Dr. Leonard Sachs stated that a small Jewish community had lived in Graz even before this time. According to historians, even if this is true, there is no evidence that a Jewish family named Frankenberger lived in the city.
The Austrian Nikolaus von Preradovich made the statement that no Jews lived in Graz and throughout Styria at that time, the newspaper writes. In one of his articles, he also claimed "that a search in the archives of the city of Graz showed absolutely clearly that in the period from 1820 to 1860 there was no family with the surname Frankenberger in Graz at all." the American researcher Leonard Sachs, in turn, found out that Preradovich "was a supporter of right-wing views and admired Hitler." Preradovich claimed that the first evidence of Jewish habitation in Graz dates back to 1856. “Sachs discovered a document confirming the existence of a small Jewish community in the city as early as 1850,” in connection with which the researcher considers it likely that Jews lived in Graz even earlier, that is, in 1836. Officially, Jews were then forbidden to live in Styria, but, according to Sachs, businessmen like the Frankenberger family could live illegally in Graz, engaging in trade there.
On 01 May 2022, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov gave a detailed interview to the Italian television company Mediaset. In particular, he was asked how the accusations of “Nazification” of Ukraine fit in with the fact that President Vladimir Zelensky is a Jew. Lavrov replied as follows: “He (Zelensky) puts forward an argument: what kind of Nazism can they have if he is a Jew. I may be wrong, but Hitler also had Jewish blood. It means absolutely nothing. The wise Jewish people say that the most ardent anti-Semites are usually Jews. “The family has its black sheep,” as we say.”
The well-known British expert Richard Evans, in turn, points to the lack of reliable evidence that Maria Anna Schicklgruber ever lived in Graz, as well as that the Frankenberger family lived in the city. "Evans believes that the speculation about the possible Jewish roots of Hitler arises from the fact that many people cannot explain to themselves his extremely deep anti-Semitism - other than that Hitler had personal reasons for this".
Like any large-scale historical figure, Adolf Hitler received many incarnations on the screen. Charlie Chaplin's first sound film, The Great Dictator, which made fun of Adolf Hitler and other high-ranking Nazis, was released back in 1940, when peace reigned between the United States and Germany. Because of the sensitive plot, Chaplin received letters from worried Hollywood studios, but he was determined to finish the picture, because "Hitler was supposed to be ridiculed." Later, in his autobiography, written after World War II, Chaplin noted: "Of course, if I had known then about the true horrors of the German concentration camps, I would not have been able to make The Dictator, I would not have been able to laugh at the Nazis, at their monstrous mania of destruction." Rumors that Chaplin was Jewish became widespread after "The Great Dictator," in which Chaplin portrayed both a Jewish barber and Hitler-esque despot. Chaplin did little to correct the record.
The head of the Israeli Foreign Ministry demanded an apology from Lavrov for his words about "Hitler's Jewish blood." Yair Lapid called them "a terrible historical error". The politician said that Israel expects an apology after such statements, as it considers them "unforgivable and outrageous." Lapid wrote "Lavrov’s remarks are both an unforgivable and outrageous statement as well as a terrible historical error. Jews did not murder themselves in the Holocaust. The lowest level of racism against Jews is to accuse Jews themselves of antisemitism". Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in a statement, said that the "use of the Holocaust of the Jewish people as a political tool must cease immediately."
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on 02 May 2022 described Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov as a “great connoisseur of Hitlerism” after the latter’s comments alleging that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had “Jewish origins”. He also questioned whether Israel and Russia’s relations would remain as usual.
“Yesterday, for example, Russia's foreign minister openly and without hesitation said that the biggest anti-Semites were allegedly among the Jews themselves. And that Hitler allegedly had Jewish blood. How could this be possibly said on the eve of the anniversary of the victory over Nazism? These words mean that Russia's top diplomat puts the blame on the Jewish people for Nazi crimes. I have no words,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly address.
"It is no coincidence that they are waging a so-called total war to destroy all living things, after which only the burned ruins of entire cities and villages remain. To do this, one must completely reject the moral and achievements of the victors of Nazism. But if such people are in the Russian leadership, it does not mean they can judge others in Europe or in the world according to themselves."
He added: “Such an anti-Semitic attack by their minister means that Russian authorities have forgotten all the lessons of World War II, or maybe they never learnt those lessons. So the question is whether the Israeli ambassador stays in Moscow knowing their new position, whether the relations with Russia remain as usual. Because all of this is not accidental. The words of the Russian Foreign Minister, a ‘great connoisseur of Hitlerism’ are not random.”
All 25 Jewish Democratic lawmakers in the House of Representatives sharp condemnation of Lavrov over his comments comparing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Adolf Hitler. "The blatant antisemitism in recent comments by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is appalling but sadly not surprising. Lavrov, Vladimir Putin, and the Russian regime are doing everything they can to divert attention from their unprovoked, unlawful invasion of Ukraine and the failings of their military in the face of a heroic Ukrainian response," 24 of the 25 Jewish lawmakers said in a joint statement after the Russian foreign minister said that Hitler also 'had Jewish blood', referring to Zelenskyy's Jewish origins, adding that "the wise Jewish people said that the most ardent antisemites are usually Jews."
"Defaulting to antisemitic tropes, including blaming the Jews for the Holocaust and using the Holocaust to cover their own war crimes, reflects the gutless depravity of the Russian regime," they continued, adding that "Lavrov’s remarks on Italian TV were an affront to the memory of the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis, the survivors of the Holocaust, their families and the entire world Jewish community.”
Rep. Steve Cohen, who co-chairs the U.S. Helsinki Commission that monitors human rights and international cooperation in the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, issued his own statement, where he decried Lavrov's "stooping to the basest antisemitism." The Tennessee Democrat charged that Lavrov and Russia are "clearly disconnected from reality, morality, humanity and sensitivity," adding that "this level of depravity is consistent with the reprehensible, repugnant and reptilian conduct of Putin's government."
Russian President Vladimir Putin apologised for his foreign minister’s comments claiming that Adolf Hitler had Jewish origins, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on 06 May 2022. Bennett said the Russian leader apologised for remarks made by minister Sergei Lavrov, who claimed Adolf Hitler may have had “Jewish blood”. The comments had sparked outrage in the Jewish state. “The Prime Minister accepted President Putin’s apology for Lavrov’s remarks and thanked him for clarifying his attitude towards the Jewish people and the memory of the Holocaust,” Bennett’s office said in a statement. A Kremlin summary of the Bennett-Putin call made no mention of a Putin apology.
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