Paula Hitler
| Paula Hitler | |
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| Born |
21 January 1896 Hafeld in Fischlham municipality, Austria |
| Died | 1 June 1960 (aged 64) Berchtesgaden, West Germany |
| Resting place | Bergfriedhof in Berchtesgaden/Schönau |
| Nationality |
Austrian German |
| Other names | Paula Wolff |
| Known for | Sister of German dictator Adolf Hitler |
| Parent(s) |
Alois Hitler, Sr. Klara Hitler |
| Relatives |
Adolf Hitler (brother) Angela Hitler (half-sister) Alois Jr. Hitler Gustav Hitler Ida Hitler Otto Hitler Edmund Hitler |
Paula Hitler (also known as Paula Wolff) (21 January 1896 in Hafeld, Austria – 1 June 1960 in Berchtesgaden) was the younger sister of Adolf Hitler and the last child of Alois Hitler, Sr. and his third wife, Klara Pölzl.
Paula was six years old when her father Alois, Sr., a retired customs official, died, and eleven when she lost her mother Klara, after which the Austrian government provided a small pension to Paula and Adolf. However, the amount was relatively meager and Adolf, who was by then old enough to support himself, agreed to sign his share over to her.
Paula later moved to Vienna. In the early 1920s she was hired as a housekeeper at a dormitory for Jewish university students. In 1921, while she worked at the dormitory, she was visited by her brother Adolf who she said appeared as if he had "fallen from heaven". Later she worked as a secretary. For the most part, she had no other contact with her brother during his difficult years as a painter in Vienna and later Munich, military service during World War I and early political activities back in Munich. She was delighted to meet him again in Vienna during the early 1930s.
By her own account, after losing a job with a Viennese insurance company in 1930 when her employers found out who she was, Paula received financial support from her brother (which continued until his suicide in 1945), lived under the assumed family name Wolff at Hitler's request (this was a childhood nickname of his which he had also used during the 1920s for security purposes) and worked sporadically. Hitler appears to have had a low opinion of her intelligence, referring to both Paula and his half-sister Angela as "stupid geese".
She later claimed to have seen her brother about once a year during the 1930s and early 1940s. She worked as a secretary in a military hospital for much of World War II.
There is some evidence Paula shared her brother's strong German nationalist beliefs, but she was not politically active and never joined the Nazi Party. During the closing days of the war, at the age of 49, she was driven to Berchtesgaden, Germany, apparently on the orders of Martin Bormann.
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