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-100- Klora Poeltl, aa has been said, w«;s the foster- of her husband and twaty-thrtM year a his Junior, She cane fron old peasant stock, wee hard-working, energetic and tionecientiouB* Whether it was duo to her yaara of domestic 'service or to her upbringing, her how waa always (spotlessly1 clean, everything had itfl place and not a speck of dust was to be found on the furniture* She was very devoted to her children And, according to fliUlwn Patrick Hitler, a typical step- mother to her step-children* According to Or* BXoch who treated her, she was a wry sweat and affaction*to woman whose life centered around her children and particularly Molph, who was her pet. She spoke vary highly of her husband and hi a and tha happy life they had together. She felt i t a reel deprivation for the children to haw la at their fftther while they were still so young* One could question her background, Her sister is married and ha a two sons, one of whom ia a hunchback and has an iapedivebt in his speech* "hen we (tonaider that Klars Fa vial nay have lost one child before ber jsarriage to Alois Hitler, another son ; born in 1BS6 who died In 1007, another sou bora In 1894 who died in 1900, end a girl who waa born in 1886 and died in 1889, on* has grounds to question the purity of the blood* There is even cause for greater suspicion when i learn fron Hr- KLoch that he U certain that there was & REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES