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[li]Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin spent a month in the city, meeting Trotsky and writing Marxism and the National Question, with Nikolay Bukharin.[/li][li]The neurologist Sigmund Freud moved to Vienna in 1860 as a child and left the city in 1938 after the Nazis annexed Austria.[/li][li]Nazi leader Adolf Hitler is believed to have lived there between 1908 and 1913 where he struggled to make a living as a painter.[/li][li]Josip Broz, later Yugoslav leader Marshal Tito, was a metalworker before being drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army.[/li][li]Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky lived in Vienna from about 1907 to 1914, launching paper Pravda - The Truth.[/li][/ul]
More accurately, Alois Jr was Adolf’s half-brother from Alois Sr’s second marriage to Franziska “Fanni” Matzelsberger (and was actually born out of wedlock). That union also produced Adolf’s half-sister Angela, the mother of Geli Raubal, who would later commit suicide (apparently) as a result of her famous uncle’s attentions.
As a young man, William Patrick spent time in Germany, apparently sponging off Adolf. In 1938, he published a *Look *article titled “Why I Hate My Uncle.”
It’s interesting that William Patrick adopted the surname Stuart-Houston, since it’s associated with this man:
This change of name was hushed up for many years, and the location of William Patrick’s remains (a cemetery on Long Island) wasn’t revealed until fairly recently.
Albert Einstein had a somewhat turbulent personal life.
As a young man, he fell in love with a family friend and was engaged to her, but began an affair with fellow student Mileva Maric. She became pregnant and had a daughter, who either died or was given up for adoption. Einstein and Maric married, and had a son, but it wasn’t a happy union and Einstein started an affair with his cousin Elsa, whom he eventually married. He probably cheated on her as well, but she looked the other way.
Benjamin Franklin had an illegitimate son. He acknowledged him and helped raise him, but they took opposite sides during the American Revolution. Despite some attempts afterwards, they never really reconciled.
During World War II, Polish seminary student Karol Wojtyła, who would later become Pope John Paul II, was struck by vehicles and injured on three separate occasions: by a tram in 1940, by a truck, also in 1940, and by a German truck in 1944.
Stockbroker Hugh Auchincloss was the second husband of Nina S. Gore, the mother of Gore Vidal. He was also the second husband of Janet Lee Bouvier, the mother of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy.
The Zildjian Cymbal Company of Norwell, Massachusetts was founded in Constantinople in the 17th century by an Armenian named Avedis Zildjian. “Zildjian” is an Armenian name that means “son of a cymbal maker”. He was an alchemist trying to mix metals to produce sheets that could produce music without shattering. In the late 19th century, Aram Zildjian, being Armenian, had to flee the Ottoman Empire. The family wound up in Massachusetts, and started the family business in 1929. In the 1970s, the family split up over whether or not to keep the metal manufacturing process a secret, and Robert Zildjian, brother of then-company President Armand Zildjian, moved to Canada, where he started the Sabian Cymbal Company.
Edgar Allan Poe attended West Point as a cadet, and was dismissed. Afterward, he requested a recommendation from the commandant so that he could serve as an officer in the Polish army.