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Klara Hitler

Klara Hitler born Klara Pölzl (August 12 1860 - December 21 1907), was the mother of Adolf Hitler.

She was the daughter of Johann Pölzl and Johanna Hiedler and was born in the village of Spital, Austria, at house #37, right next door to the house where her future husband Alois Hitler grew up under the care of her grandfather. Klara's grandfather, Johann Nepomuk Hiedler, was her future husband's step-uncle, and possibly his real father.

She never got out of the habit of thinking of Alois as her uncle, not her husband. After they were married, she still called him "Uncle." Author Bradley F. Smith describes Klara as "a fairly large girl, almost as tall as her husband [Alois], with dark brown hair and even features."

Her adult life was devoted to keeping house and raising children. She had six children, two of which, Paula and Adolf, survived childhood.

She was a devout Catholic, and went to church regularly.

When her husband died in 1903, he left her a pension and property and she was adequately provided for financially, as were her children. She did not live very long after his death. Four years after the death of her husband, died of breast cancer at the age of 47 in Linz, Austria.

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