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
Religious views of Adolf Hitler desire not to cause a quarrel with the churches that might undermine national unity. In 1932, Hitler came up with the name German Christians ("Deutsche Christen") for a pro-Nazi group within Protestantism. "Hitler saw the relationship in political terms. He was not a praticising Christian, but had somehow succeeded in masking his own religious skepticism from millions of German voters", wrote Overy, who considered that Hitler found the arrangement useful for a time, but ultimately expected Christianity to wilt and die before "the advances of science". In this early period, the "German Christian" movement sought to make the Protestant churches