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I just saw an interesting documentary about Hitler's family. It brought up some stuff I didn't really know before.

- Hitler had a half-sister, called Paula Hitler, who lived incognito (in Austria, I think), who was a pretty decent person
- Hitler had a nephew called William Patrick Hitler, who wasn't TOO bad, but was an annoying self-publicist, who used his family connection to get newspapers to pay him money for articles on his uncle
- William Patrick Hitler also fought against Germany in WW2, for Europe, but later on he suddenly realised all this fame wasn't such a brilliant idea, and spent a long time living anonymously and in terror

Of course, like a lot of dictators, Hitler wanted to obscure / bury / "improve" his past. Not just to make himself look as good as possible, and gloss over problems, but also that idea that "the chosen" don't have regular families, were never children, etc. and just appeared one day, with great things ahead of him.

Having said all that, I suspect that only people that really mattered in developing him, where his father (who he disliked and was afraid of), and his mother (who he loved a lot, and was very upset about the death of).

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