Talk:Johann Georg Hiedler

Paternity claims

Shirer says in The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (see Google Books excerpt):

Anna died in 1847, whereupon Johann Hiedler vanished for thirty years, only to reappear at the age of eighty-four in the town of Weitra in the Waldviertel, the spelling of his name now changed to Hitler, to testify before a notary in the presence of three witnesses that he was the father of Alois Schicklgruber. Why the old man waited so long to take this step, or why he finally took it, is not konwn from the available records. According to Heiden, Alois later confided to a friend that it was done to help him obtain a share of an inheritance from an uncle, a brother of the miller, who had raised the youth in his own household. At any rtate, this tardy recognition was made on June 6, 1876, and on November 23 the parish priest at Doellersheim, to whose office the notarized statement had been forwarded, scratched out the name of Alois Schicklgruber in the baptismal registry and wrote in its place that of Alois Hitler.

This account contradicts Toland's claim that Johann died in 1857 and that the 1876 paternity acknowledgement was engineered by Johann Nepomuk. Does his book account for the discrepancy? I do not have a copy myself; I will try to get to a library that does have it, but in the meantime, any input from people with first-hand access to sources would be very helpful. Tim Pierce (talk) 17:55, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

Who accepted him as Hitler's grandfather?

Who was it in the Third Reich who accepted Johann as Hitler's paternal grandfather?--Wonderman91 (talk) 11:50, 11 December 2011 (UTC)