I've heard a rumor that Adolf Hitler's father, Alois Hitler, was either Jewish or of Jewish ancestry. Is there any validity to this claim or is it just a wild claim? If false, what would be the purpose of someone perpetrating it as if it were fact?
No discouraging any from contributing any new information, but this question has come up before
/u/Georgy_K_Zhukov in Did the Nazis ever question Hitler's Jewish ancestry?
/u/skirlhutsenreiter in Did Hitler actually have any Jewish origin?
/u/QuirrelMan in Did Hitler himself have a Jewish grandparent?