Klara Hitler was the mother of Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany.
Klara Pölzl in the 1870s
Klara Hitler, c. 1880s
Alois and Klara's gravestone was removed in 2012.
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934. During his dictatorship, he initiated the European theatre of World War II by invading Poland on 1 September 1939. He was closely involved in military operations throughout the war and was central to the perpetration of the Holocaust: the genocide of about six million Jews and millions of other victims.
Official portrait, 1938
Hitler as an infant (c. 1889–90)
Hitler's father, Alois, c. 1900
Hitler's mother, Klara, 1870s