This is what so often happens with famous men: the moment they step into the spotlight, everything around them is turned over, and people begin hunting for scandals, contradictions and hidden secrets. Hitler’s father, with his murky origins and his posthumously acquired name, supplied ideal raw material.
Long before Hans Frank, Hitler’s former lawyer and the Governor-General of occupied Poland, wrote his notorious memoirs, various sources had already floated the theory that Hitler’s father might have been of Jewish descent. The possibility was discussed by Walter C. Langer, the American psychoanalyst who compiled a secret psychological profile of Hitler for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during the war, and also by Fritz Thyssen, the industrialist who had been among the earliest supporters and financiers of the Nazi Party before breaking with Hitler and fleeing Germany. The theory was likewise revived by a man writing under the name Hansjürgen Koehler, a former Gestapo employee who was later assigned to the guard detachment at Hitler’s alpine residence, escaped to the West, and published a sensational book entitled Inside the Gestapo.
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