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ub it ion mass end extraordinary political intuition such none In harttony with the Rathfrchtld tradition* ' (e) That AIOIE Schickl^TTibor left bis home village at an early age to seek hi£ fortune in Vienna cher* his mother bad worked* * if) That It would be peculiar for Aloia Hitler, while working aa a customs offici&l in BraunaUj, should choose a Jaw nastod Prins, of Vienna, to act ad Wolpii'a• godfather uulflAA be felt 'one Jtinrtlp with the Java hlaiwlf * • / Thl& Is csrtftlnlj & T»ry intriguing liypotheffia and mich of Adolph'a later beherlor could be explained In rather easy tema on this bfttle. However, i t 1B not absolutely nec*Beftry to assume that he bad Jewlah blood in his vaine in order to Bfike a cQBpre- bonalTV picture of his oh&ratiter with it* manifold tralta and centimertta* Fton a purely scientific point of view, therefore; it. Is aouzkder not to bae* our recortfltnictlon on such alia BVld«noe but to seek finoar foundations. Navtt-tbeleeB, we cap leave it as A possibility which required further vtrrification* - i la any event, Maria Anna dchlcklgmber died iten be waa firs year* of e««. When be was tblrteen he left the Waldviertel and want to ?ianna where he leorn&d to be ft <rabbl«r. The n u t tmuty*thr»e year a of his life are largely unaccounted for* It iwflflu probabl* that during thia tins h« Joined tha and hod porhapa been advanced to the rank of noti-coaniBBione ^ Hts #»rrlc* In the armj nay have helped hie to enter the Civil Serrla* as Ztollamtaoffilial later on. REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES