Just Amleth

Saturday, July 16, 2005

Heil Schicklgruber!

After watching Der Untergang (also known as Downfall), a movie about the last ten days of Hitler in his underground bunker in Berlin, I became fascinated with Hitler's background. What kind of life has this person lead for him to make such horrible decisions as the Final Solution in his lifetime?

Anyway, it turns out that Adolf Hitler's father, Alois Hitler, was originally named Alois Schicklgruber. Alois was the illegitimate child of Maria Anna Schicklgruber, and he initially took the name Alois Schicklgruber after his mother. His mother later remarried to a person named Hitler, and Alois Schicklgruber applied to change his name to Alois Hitler later in his life.

Can you just imagine thousands of Germans shouting "Heil Schicklgruber!" instead of "Heil Hitler!"?