08-23-2017, 02:20 PM
(08-23-2017, 02:07 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Saw a documentary where they tried to talk to his family. IIRC, they changed their name and it is likely that a lot of people did that would have shared it.
There's also evidence that the surname didn't even exist and was, in fact, a mistake on the birth registry. According to this research, the last name should have been documented as Heidler, I don't recall if that was Adolf or his "adoptive" father. The person filling out the birth certificate misheard it as Hitler (in German the second vowel in the "i" "e" combination is the one that is pronounced as the vowel sound). So, no one had the surname until this mistake was made.
