| Repetitive Monkey |
11-12-2004 01:19 AM |
Pre-emptive, since these myth threads always end up in the same way:
"Another even more common myth is the one that Hitler was Jewish. One need not rely on quotations to disprove this - simple facts will suffice. The discovery of one Katharina Salomon - an apparently Jewish-sounding name - first started speculations about Hitler's supposed Jewish ancestry. Actually, Saloman was the daughter of Johann Salomon, a Catholic. Later on, it was found that the Catholic Katharina Salomon did not even belong on Hitler's family tree; she was replaced by Maria Hamberger.
One newspaper went so far as to publish the pedigree of one Klara Hitler, a Jew born in 1821. This was supposedly Hitler's mother - even though the Jewess in question would have been 78 years old at the time of Hitler's birth.
The most common story of Hitler's alleged Jewishness comes originally from Hans Frank, who claimed that before Hitler's father was born, Hitler's grandmother Schicklgruber had been a cook in Graz, in the household of a Jew by the name of Frankenberger; that she had become pregnant by the son of the house, and that for the next fourteen years she had received child support payments. According to Frank, this information came directly from Hitler, who said that his grandmother had told him this. Frank's statement is obviously false, for Hitler's grandmother had died 42 years before Hitler was even born. And not only that: no record exists of either a Frankenberger or a Frankenreiter in Graz. In fact, not a single Jew lived anywhere in the entire province until after 1856. Hitler's father was born twenty years earlier, a fact which lays this fraudulent theory to rest."
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