# What ever happened to Hitler's parents?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 15, 2002, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-hitlers-parents/128587 "2002-09-15T21:40:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lodrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@Lodrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lodrain)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2002, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-hitlers-parents/128587/1 "2002-09-15T21:40:18Z")

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Having read reams of written material on Hitler during my life, I can give at least a thousand-word report on him from memory alone. But one little bit of fact bugs me with its absence - what happened to his parents after he rose to power? I assume nothing much, becasue they aren’t mentioned outside of ‘Adolf Hitler was born to so and so on so and so’, but I still am quite curious. Any Dopers willing to fill me in?

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**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2002, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-hitlers-parents/128587/2 "2002-09-15T21:51:03Z")

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They were both dead at the time. His father died in 1903, and his mother died in 1907.

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**Author:** ![Lodrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@Lodrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lodrain)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2002, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-hitlers-parents/128587/3 "2002-09-16T02:12:46Z")

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Thank you very much.

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**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2002, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-hitlers-parents/128587/4 "2002-09-16T07:43:06Z")

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Hitler’s father dies:  
[http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/father.htm](http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/father.htm)

Hitler’s mother dies:  
[http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/mother.htm](http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/mother.htm)

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**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2002, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-hitlers-parents/128587/5 "2002-09-16T07:50:52Z")

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BTW, Hitler’s closest living relatives are three Americans who live on Long Island. They’re the grandsons of his older half brother, Alois Hitler, whose son William Patrick Hitler immigrated to the United States in 1939 and served in the U.S. Navy.