Voldemort and his muggle hating

[jodel at aol.com]

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Brief Chronicles asks:

> I always thought it was a reference to Hitler. Could I be wrong about this? 
> Didn't Hitler have a Jewish grandmother, or is that just a myth?
> 

It was a slander, not a myth. So the charge stung all the more, in that the 
family knew it was not true. (Ergo, the Jews "harmed" young Adolf's family 
merely by existing.)

The more recent biographers have done their homework. Evidently Hitler's 
grandmother got pregnant (with Adolf's father) outside of wedlock and had to have 
a "hurry-up" marriage to the child's father, the son of a local farming family 
that she had been involved with for some time. This was pretty spicy for 
those times, but it wasn't spicy enough to satisfy the scandal-mongers. They took 
the fact that at the time she became pregnant she had been in domestic service 
to a fairly well-off Jewish family which included an unmarried son and made a 
few contributions to the local excitement. It wasn't true. Everyone actually 
involved knew it wasn't true. But the kid grew up to be a right vicious 
bastard and anything that contributed to a "bad-blood" theory would have been 
remembered, kept in circulation, and he never lived it down. The story was 
apparantly still circulating when Adolf was young. Small wonder it left him fuming. 
(And he hated his father -- with good and sufficient reason.)

-JOdel


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