Todays Trivia Sunday, April 28, 2002

[El Trivioso]

Did You Know That: <br /><br />Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor. <br /><br /> Before 1917, goalies (in hockey) were not allowed to fall to the ice to make saves or else they were penalized.

[GLADIATOR]

Originally posted by El Trivioso
Did You Know That: <br /><br />Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor. <br /><br /> Before 1917, goalies (in hockey) were not allowed to fall to the ice to make saves or else they were penalized.


Yeh. Her doctor was an Anti Semitic whore

[Redallnite]

Wasn't his mother half Jewish??

[GLADIATOR]

Originally posted by Redallnite
Wasn't his mother half Jewish??

There is no such thing as half Jewish.
If you mum is Jewish you are automatically Jewish.

from my memory, neither his parents were Jewish, but I will check it out.

[Redallnite]

By golly, I knew you would say that when I wrote it.... I was gringing when I hit submit reply

[GLADIATOR]

Originally posted by Redallnite
By golly, I knew you would say that when I wrote it.... I was gringing when I hit submit reply

Ha Ha. I am glad, I am soooooo predictable.:(

[Diva]

Originally posted by GLADIATOR
Ha Ha. I am glad, I am soooooo predictable.:(
I knew you were going to say that.

[SysLord]

ThinkQuest

Adolf Hitler was born in the small Austrian village of Braunau Am Inn just across the border from German Bavaria on April 20, 1889. Adolf Hitler would one day lead a movement that placed supreme importance on a person's family tree, even making it a matter of life and death. However, his own family tree was quite mixed up and would be a lifelong source of embarrassment and concern to him.
His father, Alois, was born in 1837. He was the illegitimate son of Maria Anna Schicklgruber and her unknown mate, which may have been someone from the neighborhood or a poor millworker named Johann Georg Hiedler. It is also remotely possible Adolf Hitler's grandfather was Jewish. Alois had always used the last name of his mother, Schicklgruber, and thus was always called Alois Schicklgruber. After his success in the civil service, his proud uncle from the small farm convinced him to change his last name to match his own, Hiedler, and continue the family name. However, when it came time to write the name down in the record book it was spelled as Hitler. So in 1876, at age 39, Alois Schicklgruber became Alois Hitler.

In 1885, after numerous affairs and two other marriages ended, the widowed Alois Hitler, 48, married the pregnant Klara Pölzl, 24, the granddaughter of uncle Hiedler. Klara Pölzl eventually gave birth to two boys and a girl, all of whom died. On April 20, 1889, her fourth child, Adolf was born healthy and was baptized a Roman Catholic. Hitler's father was then 52 years old. Throughout his early days, Adolf's mother feared losing him as well and lavished affection on him.

In 1896 the Hitler household consisted of Adolf, little brother Edmund, little sister Paula, older half brother Alois Jr., older half sister Angela and two parents who were home all the time. It was a crowded, noisy little farm house which apparently angered Hitler's father. The oldest boy, Alois Jr., 13, bore the brunt of his father's discontent, including harsh words and occasional beatings. A year later, at age 14, young Alois ran away from home, never to see his father again. This put young Adolf, age 7, next in line for the same treatment. Also at this time, the family moved off the farm to the town of Lambach, Austria, halfway between Linz and Salzburg. This was the first of several moves the family would make in the restless retirement of Hitler's father. For young Adolf, the move to Lambach meant an end to farm chores and more time to play. There was an old Catholic Benedictine monastery in the town. The ancient monastery was decorated with carved stones and woodwork that included several swastikas. Adolf attended school there and saw them every day. They had been put there in the 1800's by the ruling Abbot as a pun or play on words. His name essentially sounded like the German word for swastika, Hakenkreuz. Young Hitler did well in the monastery school and also took part in the boys' choir. As a young boy he idolized the priests and for two years seriously considered becoming a priest himself. At age nine, he got into schoolboy mischief. He was caught smoking a cigarette by one of the priests. In describing his boyhood, Hitler later said of himself that he was "an argumentative little ring leader who liked to stay outside and hang around with 'husky' boys."