Early Days of Hitler Trivia Quiz

Answer: 20 April 1889

Adolf Hitler was born at 6:30 p.m. on the evening of 20 April 1889 in Branau am Inn, Upper Austria, across the border from German Bavaria.

Answer: True

His paternal grandmother was Maria Anna Schicklgruber, but the identity of his grandfather was never known for sure (she was the mother of Alois Hitler, Adolf's father). It was suspected he was someone from the neighborhood or possibly a poor millworker named Johann Georg Hiedler.

There was also some speculation that Maria was impregnated by the 19-year-old son of the Jewish family she worked for, Frankenberger. However, Hitler never knew who his grandfather was.

Answer: Schicklgruber

Alois Schicklgruber always used his mother's last name because he was not ashamed of being illegitimate in rural Austria. After he became successful in the civil service, his uncle encouraged him to change his name and continue the family name, Hiedler. This came to be misspelled as Hitler. (In the local dialect both spellings would have given the same pronunciation).

Answer: Adi

Hitler was called Adi as a baby by his mother. She had previously lost children at birth and lavished a lot of affection on little Hitler. They had a very close relationship.

Answer: four

Hitler had an older half brother named Alois Junior, an older half sister Angela, a little brother Edmund, and a little sister Paula. Alois Jr. ran away from home at age thirteen and Edmund died at age six.

Answer: his father died

Alois Hitler died at age 65 on January 3, 1903 in the town on Leonding, Austria. He died of a sudden lung hemorrhage when Hitler was only thirteen years old.

Answer: sixteen

Hitler dropped out of high school and spent the next couple years deciding what to do with his life. He had no desire to get a job because he hated the idea of anyone having authority over him.

Answer: August Kubizek

August Kubizek wanted to be a musician and he and Hitler used to attend operas together. Hitler often gave long, dramatic speeches to his friend. Kubizek later described his childhood friend as "violent and highly strung."

Answer: breast cancer

Klara Hitler died in 1907 at the age of 46 from malignant breast cancer. Adolf was 18-years-old at the time and was devastated by the loss of his mother. Klara was operated on and had a breast removed, but it was too late. Interestingly, the doctor who examined her was a Jewish man by the name of Eduard Bloch.

Answer: Braunau am Inn

He was born in the small Austrian town of Braunau am Inn, although he would spend much of his childhood moving to new towns because of his father's work as a custom's official.

Answer: Klara Pölzl

Answer: priest

Hitler attended school at a Catholic Benedictine monastery in Lambach that was covered in swastikas. He sang in the boy's choir and so admired the priests that he briefly considered being one.

Answer: Yes

After his mother died, Hitler moved to Vienna in an attempt to train as an artist. The 18-year-old spent some time being homeless after he abruptly left the apartment he was sharing with his childhood friend, August Kubizek.

Answer: Edmund

Little brother Edmund died at the age of six from measles.

Answer: Agent to sell paintings

Reinhold Hanisch met Hitler at a home for poor men and became his agent, selling pictures that Adolf would copy from postcards of famous Vienna landmarks. Hitler later accused Hanisch of stealing his property and testified in court, getting Hanisch an 8 day sentence in jail. Hanisch was murdered in 1938 as an order from Hitler for talking about him to the press.