Klara Hitler, nee Pozl, was 29. “My mother,” Paula said, “was a very soft and tender person, the compensatory element between the almost too harsh father.”Alois died in 1903 of heart failure while drinking his morning pint. With pain in her breast, she went to see the family doctor, Eduard Bloch, who was Jewish. “The Hitler family send you the best wishes for a Happy New Year, in everlasting thankfulness,” Adolf wrote. “He carried her picture with him down to the last days in the bunker,” Kershaw wrote.

Source: National Post April 20, 2017 15:45 UTC