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Alois Hitler was born [[illegitimacy|out of wedlock]] and used his mother's surname, '''Schicklgruber''', until he was 40. In [[1876]], he began using the name of his [[stepfather]], [[Johann Georg Hiedler]], after visiting a [[priest]] responsible for [[Births, deaths and marriages registry|birth registries]] and declaring that Georg was his father (Alois gave the impression that Georg was still alive, but he was long dead). The spelling was probably changed by a clerk. Later, Adolf was accused by his political enemies of not rightfully being a Hitler, but a Schicklgruber. This was also exploited in Allied [[propaganda]] during the Second World War when [[pamphlet]]s bearing the phrase "Heil Schicklgruber" were [[airdrop]]ped over German cities. He was legally born a Hitler, however, and was closely related to Hiedler through his mother's family.

Hitler did not know for sure who his paternal grandfather was, but it was probably either Johann Georg Hiedler or his brother [[Johann von Nepomuk Hiedler]]. There have been rumours that Hitler was one-quarter [[Jew]]ish and that his paternal grandmother [[Maria Schicklgruber]] had become [[Pregnancy|pregnant]] after working as a servant in a Jewish household in [[Graz, Austria|Graz]]. During the [[1920s]], the implications of these rumours along with his known family history were politically explosive, especially for the proponent of a [[racism|racist]] [[ideology]]. Opponents tried to prove that Hitler, the leader of the [[anti-Semitic]] and [[jingoism|jingoistic]] [[Nazi Party]], had Jewish or [[Czech]] [[ancestor|ancestors]]. Although these rumours were never confirmed, for Hitler they were reason enough to conceal his origins. [[soviet union|Soviet]] propaganda insisted he was a Jew, though more modern research tends to diminish the probability Hitler had Jewish or Czech ancestors. Historians such as [[Werner Maser]] and [[Ian Kershaw]] argue this was impossible since the Jews had been expelled from Graz in the [[15th century]] and were not allowed to return until well after Maria Schicklgruber's alleged [[employment]].{{ref|about}} Adolf '''''NICKY IS A BIG WIENER WITH A McGINA''''' Hitler had possible access to family anecdotes about his parentage which historians cannot access. He took the rumours seriously.

Because of Alois Hitler's [[profession]] his family moved frequently, from [[Braunau]] to [[Passau]], [[Lambach]], [[Leonding]] and next to [[Linz]]. As a young child, Hitler was reportedly a good [[student]] at the various [[Elementary school|elementary schools]] he attended; however, in [[sixth grade]] (1900–1), his first year of [[high school]] (''Realschule'') in Linz, he failed completely and had to repeat the grade. His [[Teacher|teachers]] reported that he had "no desire to work."