The Americans Questioned Hitler's Other Sister. She Never Mentioned the Money.

On May 17, 1945, in Berchtesgaden, an officer of the Counter Intelligence Corps of the 101st Airborne Division sat down across from a heavy grey-haired woman. She was Angela Hammitzsch, born Angela Hitler, Adolf Hitler's older half-sister, and for years she had kept house for him on the mountain above that town. The officer asked about her brother as a boy and about her daughter Geli, who had died in Hitler's Munich apartment in 1931. Angela answered. But three weeks earlier, on Hitler's orders, his adjutant Julius Schaub had handed his sisters 100,000 Reichsmarks. She never mentioned it. So what happened to Hitler's other sister after the war? This is the story of what she told the Americans, what she kept to herself, and where the money went. SOURCES Anton Joachimsthaler, editor's notes to Christa Schroeder, Er war mein Chef (Munich, 1985), quoting the CIC files; English quotations are translations. Thomas Boghardt, Covert Legions: U.S. Army Intelligence in Germany, 1944-1949 (U.S. Army Center of Military History, CMH Pub 45-5). Walter C. Langer, A Psychological Analysis of Adolph Hitler, OSS report, 1943 (CIA Reading Room). The Washington Post, 28 May 1945, "Two of Hitler's Sisters Held" (INS). Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Daily Bulletin, 8 March 1936. Werner Maser, Fälschung, Dichtung und Wahrheit über Hitler und Stalin (2004). Arthur Mitchell, Hitler's Mountain (2007). Süddeutsche Zeitung, reporting on the Germering town archive, 2015. Film (public domain: U.S. National Archives, U.S. government films): NARA 111-ADC-4370; NARA 111-ADC-4591; Combat Leaflets, Fifth Army Combat Propaganda Team, US Army Signal Corps; Eva Braun's private films 242.2 (NAID 43461), seized by the US Army in Germany in 1945; NARA 111-ADC-9795; Wikimedia Commons; NARA 111-ADC-5348; United News 208-UN-1041 (ARC 39158); NARA 111-ADC-4519; NARA 111-ADC-4428; NARA 111-ADC-4369; United News 208-UN-1051 (ARC 39168); NARA 111-ADC-4458; NARA 111-ADC-5199; T. Boghardt, Covert Legions, CMH Pub 45-5, p.77; NARA 111-ADC-4125; NARA 111-ADC-3956; NARA 111-ADC-5254; Jewish Telegraphic Agency Daily Bulletin, 8 March 1936; W. C. Langer, A Psychological Analysis of Adolph Hitler, OSS 1943, CIA-RDP78-02646R000600240001-5; Newspaper Story (1950); NARA 111-ADC-7482; NARA 111-ADC-4619; The Washington Post, 28 May 1945, archive.org; The Washington Post, 28 May 1945 (INS), archive.org; NARA 111-ADC-7594; NARA 111-ADC-5862; NARA 111-ADC-4262. Archival film of places and events is used as illustration where no film of the exact moment exists. Documents and a 1933 50-Reichsmark note are shown as stills. Books on German POWs in America (affiliate links, we may earn a small commission): - The Barbed-Wire College, Ron Robin: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0691037000?tag=wwiihistory02-20 - Nazi Prisoners of War in America, Arnold Krammer: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1493049526?tag=wwiihistory02-20 - Men in German Uniform, Antonio Thompson: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1572337281?tag=wwiihistory02-20 - Stalag Wisconsin, Betty Cowley: https://www.amazon.com/dp/187856983X?tag=wwiihistory02-20 - Listen to history audiobooks with an Audible free trial: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NB86OYE?tag=wwiihistory02-20