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i • married life for a ousto** officer - three i i m t i *nv*n or pooalbly si^bt children, one divorce, At least oaft birth and poeplbly two before aajrlag*, two directly after the wedrilfig, one wife thirteen years older Uwtn hinself and another twenty-three ye are younger, one tto daughter of a superior, ona A waitress1, and the third a aexnuit and kit foeter-daugbter, All of this, of vaux&*t bafl never bean nantion«d by Ritlor, In MEIM EAHPF he give a a very aiipl& pj.tture of conditions in. his fatter* e hcoe. Very little le knovn about iloia Sltler's chafAct^r, It seema that he WAS vwry proud of hi* aehievebietitA in tha Civil Service and yet he retired from thia service At the astonishing age of fifty-six, four yesra after Adolpb was born* In vary rapid succession tb& faulty aoved L&to several different villages and the father tried hi a hand at faming* It is atfld, however, that he always wore hie customs official'a uniform and tnsietad on belnj: addressed as Eerr Oborafflzlal Hitler* According to reports, he likod to lord i t ovar hie qelghbora whosa h* may have looked down upon && "nere" peaaftnts. In sny eTent, i t "sens quite ijerteJUi that he enjoyed fitting in the tarern and re- lating hie adventure E a a a cu«tond official and also la discussing political topics, Ka di«J on hie way to the tavern in Lflooding frou a stroke of apoplexy in 1905. He ifl generally described as a very daniaeering indiv- • idu*l who wafl a writable tyrant in his home. WllHaja Patrick Hitler aeya that ha has baard trom h±t f*therf Molph'fl aider REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES