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“Chilling.”  – Martin Gilbert, Sunday Telegraph

“Absorbing.” – Kirkus 

“Fascinating . . . Posner’s book gives a remarkable insight, from a family perspective, into the lives of many of the top Nazis and vilest criminals.” – Sunday Express 

“A mesmerizing, blood-chilling book . . . The contrast between innocent childhood experience, and the awful understanding of that experience that came with time, is enough to make you weep.” – Los Angeles Times

“Fascinating . . . A compelling look at the conflicting emotions felt by children of prominent Nazis.” – Cleveland Plain-Dealer 

“They were the architects of terror but they were also fathers. Now, for the first time, their children speak out . . . a fascinating book.” – Sunday Mail 

“Absorbing . . . . most of the characters in Posner&#;s study are more lurid than anything found in fiction. . . . a masterly job.” – Montreal Gazette

“Brilliant” – The Jewish Post

“If you saw The Silence of the Lambs and thought it was chilling, listen at the children of Nazis remember their parents, many of whom were responsible for the vilest of deeds.” — The San Diego Tribune

Göring. Hess. Mengele. Dönitz. Names that conjure up dark memories of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. They were the architects of the Third Reich. And they were fathers. Gerald Posner convinced eleven sons and daughters of Hitler’s inner circle to break their silence.

Hitler’s Children is a riveting and intimate look inside the families of top Nazis. Based on exclusive and in-depth interviews, Gerald Posner provides an unforgettable portrait of some children ravaged by anger and hatred while others are riven with guilt and plead for forgiveness.

Father of Adolf Hitler (–)

This article is about the father of Adolf Hitler. For his son, the dictator of Germany, see Adolf Hitler. For other people, see Hitler (disambiguation).

Alois Hitler (néSchicklgruber; 7 June &#;– 3 January ) was an Austrian civil servant in the customs service, and the father of German dictator Adolf Hitler.

Alois Schicklgruber was born out of wedlock. His mother was Maria Schicklgruber, but his biological father remains unknown. This uncertain parentage has led to claims that Alois's third wife, Klara (Adolf's mother), may have also been either Alois's first cousin once removed or his half-niece.

Alois married his first wife, Anna, in In , Alois convinced the Austrian local authorities to acknowledge his deceased stepfather Johann Georg Hiedler as his biological father. This meant that Klara legally became Alois's first cousin once removed. Alois then legally changed his last name to that of his deceased stepfather Johann, but the authorities misspelled the last name as "Hitler" for unknown reasons.

Also in , while Alois was still married to his first wife, Anna, he hired his relative Klara as a household servant, and began an affair with her. Their relationship continued in secrecy until Alois's second wife, Franziska, died and Klara became pregnant, whi

"Hitler: The Rise of Evil" fulfills its mission: taking viewers on a grim guided tour through an era gone mad. And it's a trip well worth taking.

What more to say about this CBS miniseries (airing 9 p.m. EDT Sunday and Tuesday)? The usual vocabulary of TV reviews — "gripping," "entertaining," "excellent" — seems jarringly out of place applied to such a drama.

Consider its dicey goal: to bring into America's homes a biopic of modern times' most infamous tyrant, and give him his due, yet avoid the dramatic misstep of ascribing even a trace of glamour or moral conflict to his villainy.

Mission accomplished. This film treads the straight-and-narrow, somberly tracking the conditions that enable Hitler to seize control — in particular, the social turmoil of Germany after World War I, where his rabid blend of nationalism and bigotry win growing favor.

Here is a visionary blowhard selling a bold new tomorrow as he blames the Jewish race for the world's shortcomings — even his own as an artist ("Jews run the galleries," the young Hitler rants, "they won't buy my paintings"). And as he turns circumstances to his awful advantage, the film's depiction of him unearths nothing whatsoever to condone, much less admire.

Robert Carlyle plays Hitler as twitchy, wild-eyed and ruthlessly shrewd. Known for such films as "The Full Monty" and "Angela's Ashes," the Scottish-born actor is able to reconcile this despot's magnetism and depravity. Watching him, we see all too easily how Hitler succeeded.

"People don't want the real news," says Fritz Gerlich (Matthew Modine), a real-life Munich journalist who, trying to expose the Hitler scourge, battles public indifference. "They don't want to hear about anything they might have to do something about."

Julianna Margulies ("ER") and Liev Schreiber play Helene and Ernst Hanfstaengl, an aristocratic married couple who, at first in a flourish of radical chic, reach out to Hitler, then fall under his virulent spe

Canadian television miniseries

Hitler: The Rise of Evil is a Canadian televisionminiseries in two parts, directed by Christian Duguay and produced by Alliance Atlantis. It stars Robert Carlyle in the lead role and explores Adolf Hitler's rise and his early consolidation of power during the years after the First World War and focuses on how the embittered, politically fragmented and economically buffeted state of German society following the war made that ascent possible. The film also focuses on Ernst Hanfstaengl's influence on Hitler's rise to power. The miniseries, which premiered simultaneously in May on CBC in Canada and CBS in the United States, received two Emmy Awards, for Art Direction and Sound Editing, while Peter O'Toole was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.

The film's subplot follows the struggles of Fritz Gerlich, a German journalist who opposes the rising Nazi Party. The quotation disputably attributed toEdmund Burke is displayed at the beginning and end of the film, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Plot

The opening is a montage of Adolf Hitler's life from to , when he left Austria for Munich. His participation in the First World War on the German side is then shown in a series of episodes that includes his promotion to the rank of corporal, his awarding of the Iron Cross for bravery and his blinding during a gas attack and his subsequent medical treatment, during which he learns Germany has surrendered.

Hitler returns to a revolutionary Munich in and, still employed by the army, is assigned to report on the newly formed political parties in the city. After attending a meeting of the German Workers' Party, he is recruited by the party's leader, Anton Drexler, to organize its propaganda activities and give increasingly popular speeches that harp on the themes that Germany has been betrayed by the leaders who surrendered in the last