Dr. Eduard Bloch (1872 – 1945) was the Austrian physician who treated the family Hitler throughout the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries. In this article he recalled the early life of the man, his siblings and the death of Hitler’s sainted mother.


“What kind of boy was Adolf Hitler?…For the most part the boy’s recreations were limited to those things that were free: walks in the mountains, a swim in the Danube, a free band concert. He read extensively and was particularly fascinated by stories about American Indians. He devoured the books of James Fenimore Cooper, and the German writer Karl May – who never visited America and never saw an Indian.”





One of Hitler’s early addresses in the Austrian city of Linz


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