Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris

thespeculation. Concern about whether he was part-Jewish would, of course, in any case have meant that Hitler was already antisemitic. See Rudolph Binion’s review of Waite’s book in
Journal of Psychohistory,
5 (1977), 297.
    32 . According to Maser’s account of the testimony of Adolf’s remaining relatives in Spital long after the war, there was talk while Adolf was visiting Spital on leave from the army in 1917 of Nepomuk as his paternal grandfather (Maser,
Hitler,
35). However, the testimony is worthless: Hitler never visited Spital in 1917. See Joachimsthaler, 171; and Rudolph Binion, ‘Foam on the Hitler Wave’,
JMH,
46 (1974), 522–8, here 523.
    33 . Maser,
Hitler,
35.
    34 . Smith, 39; Jetzinger, 39, 54.
    35 . Smith, 28, 35; Jetzinger, 50.
    36 . Pointed out by Rudolf Olden,
Hitler the Pawn,
London, 1936, 16.
    37 . Jetzinger, 48; Smith, 28; Orr,
Revue,
Nr 37, 5.
    38 . Jetzinger, 49; Smith, 28, 47; Orr,
Revue,
Nr 37, 5. According to Orr, Anna (whom he calls Anna Glasl-Hörer) was the adoptive daughter of a civil servant by the name of Hörer, who was a near neighbour of Alois in Braunau.
    39 . Jetzinger, 51; Smith, 29, 32–3; Orr,
Revue,
Nr 37, 6.
    40 . Smith, 32–3; Jetzinger, 52–3; Orr,
Revue,
Nr 37, 6, Nr 38, 2.
    41 . Jetzinger, 44; Smith, 35–7.
    42 . Jetzinger, 56–7; Smith, 40–41.
    43 . Maser,
Hitler,
9.
    44 . Copy of birth-certificate in HA, Reel 1; IfZ, MA-731; Koppensteiner, 18.
    45 .
MK, 1
.
    46 .
MK,
2; Smith, 53.
    47 . A point acknowledged by Waite, 145. See also Smith, 51 and n.5.
    48 . Smith, 46–9.
    49 . Following based upon Smith, 43–8; and Jetzinger, 58–63. Jetzinger’s information on Hitler’s father drew on an interview he conducted with one of Alois’s former colleagues, Emanuel Lugert. This was also reproduced in Orr,
Revue,
Nr 39, 14, 35. The former cook in the Hitler household, Rosalia Hörl
(née
Schichtl), later told the NSDAP-Hauptarchiv that he was a ‘good-natured
(gemütlicher)
but strict gentleman’. A colleague at the Customs Office in the early 1880s was less flattering, describing him as ‘unsympathetic to all of us. He was very strict, exact, even pedantic at work and a very unapproachable person.’ Both accounts in HA, Reel 1 (IfZ, MA-731).)
    50 . Smith, 51.
    51 . Smith, 45–8.
    52 . Smith, 43.
    53 . Kubizek, 46.
    54 . Eduard Bloch, ‘My Patient, Hitler’,
Collier’s
(15 March 1941), 35.
    55 . For speculation on the psychological effect, see Alice Miller,
Am Anfang war Erziehung,
Frankfurt am Main, 1983, 213–15.
    56 .Smith, 41–3; Jetzinger, 62, 71–2; Kubizek, 38–45; Bloch, 36.
    57 . Bloch, 36.
    58 .
MK,
16; and see Albert Zoller,
Hitler privat. Erlebnisbericht seiner Geheimsekretärin,
Düsseldorf, 1949, 46.
    59 . Waite, 141.
    60 . NA, NND/881077, Interview with Mrs Paula Wolf (i.e. Paula Hitler), Berchtesgaden, 5 June 1946 (transcript only in English). Hitler’s half-sister Angela Hammitzsch (formerly Raubal) also spoke after the war of the regular beatings Adolf used to receive from his father. (Cit. in Christa Schroeder,
Er war mein Chef. Aus dem Nachlaß der Sekretärin von Adolf Hitler,
Munich/Vienna, 1985, 336 n.139.)
    61 . Schroeder, 63. Hitler described his father to Goebbels in 1932 as a ‘tyrant in the home
(Haustyrann),
while his mother was ‘a source of goodness and love’
(TBJG,
1.2, 219 (9 August 1932)). See also
TBJG,
I.2, 727 (15 November 1936), where Hitler was reported to have spoken of his ‘fanatical father’.
    62 .
MK,
32–3. See also the commentaries on the passage by Helm Stierlin,
Adolf Hitler. Familienperspektiven,
Frankfurt am Main, 1976, 24–5; and Miller, 190–91. According to Hans Frank, Hitler told him of his shame as a boy at having to fetch his drunken father home from the pub at night (Frank, 331–2). However, Emanuel Lugert, who had worked with Alois Hitler for a time at Passau, told Jetzinger that Hitler’s father had normally drunk at most four halves of beer a day, had never to his knowledge been drunk, and went home at the right time for his evening meal (Jetzinger, 61). The same witness apparently told Orr that Alois sometimes drank up to six halves of strong beer in an evening, but repeated that he had never seen him drunk (Orr,
Revue,
Nr 39, 35). Conceivably, Hitler’s own aversion to alcohol had its roots in his father’s drinking and behavioural habits.
    63 . Psychologists and ‘psycho-historians’ have seen Adolf’s relationship to both parents, not just to his father, as