Hitler family be a spelling variation of the name "Hiedler", meaning one who resides by a "Hiedl" - in Austro-Bavarian dialects a term for a subterranean fountain or river. Or the "Hitler" surname may be based on "one who lives in a hut" (German "Hütte" for "hut"). The roots of the Hitler family tree go back to Stefan Hiedler (born 1672) and Agnes Capeller, whose grandson Martin Hiedler (17 November 1762 – 10 January 1829), married Anna Maria Göschl (23 August 1760 – 7 December 1854). This couple had at least three children, Lorenz (1800 - 1861), Johann Georg (baptised 28 February
Political views of Adolf Hitler of social Darwinism and the ideas – mostly obtained second-hand and only partially understood – of Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, Richard Wagner, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Arthur de Gobineau and Alfred Rosenberg, as well as Paul de Lagarde, Georges Sorel, Alfred Ploetz and others. After World War I, Hitler stayed in the army, which was mainly engaged in suppressing socialist uprisings across Germany, including in Munich, where Hitler returned in 1919. He took part in "national thinking" courses organised by the "Education and Propaganda Department" (Dept Ib/P) of the Bavarian "Reichswehr", Headquarters 4 under Captain Karl Mayr. Mayr recruited Hitler to