Does Hitler have any relatives still alive?
Hitler was notoriously bad at painting people. He painted scenery quite well and excelled at buildings… but he never quite got it right when it came to faces.
He did paint one woman, however — a French girl named Charlotte Lobjoie. The painting he made of her was sold for 60,000 dollar at an auction.
Born in 1898, Charlotte was only 18 when Hitler painted her in 1916. In 1918, she gave birth to a son. Jean-Marie Loret. The boy resembled Hitler greatly, and although he was not in any communication with Lobjoie following the end of WWI, he did send money to her through intermediaries after coming to power in 1933.
Jean-Marie Loret, Charlotte’s son, lived until 1985. Before dying at 66, he fathered ten children by several women. Children who would be Hitler’s grandchildren, if paternity could ever be established. A German author researched the story in the 1960s — Hitler’s personal valet, Heinz Linge, confirmed it in his memoirs. And it took researchers quite a bit of convincing before Mr. Loret allowed them to go public with the information; it’s not the sort of thing people tend to shoot of the rooftops, being fathered by Hitler of all people…
A Belgian journalists claimed to have disproven Loret’s parentage through DNA; a later German study disagreed with these findings and said Loret was Hitler’s son. Hitler relatives are quite hard to find, and reluctant to agree on DNA testing. But it’s possible that he had a son, and if Loret was his boy, he’d now have dozens of descendants alive today as Loret had a large family.
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