Family of Adolf Hitler

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The ancestors and relatives of Adolf Hitler have long been of interest to historians and genealogists because of the biological uncertainty of Hitler's paternal grandfather, as well as the family's inter-relationships and their psychological effect on Hitler during his childhood and later life. Alois Schicklgruber (Adolf's father) changed his surname on 7 January 1877 to Hitler (derived from that of his deceased stepfather, Johann Georg Hiedler), which was the only form of the last name that his son Adolf used. Before Adolf Hitler's birth, his family used many variations of the family surname Hitler almost interchangeably. The common variants included Hiedler, Hüttler, Hytler, and Hittler. Adolf Hitler's sister Paula, who died in 1960 and did not have children, was the last member of the family still bearing the Hitler surname on their tombstone. In 2025, it was reported that only five members of the Hitler family bloodline, all men who fathered no children, were still living. This figure...

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