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HIEDLER, HUTTLER, HITLER

Adolf Hitler, Nazi Fuhrer of Germany form 1933 to 1945, was never known as Adolf Schicklgruber- despite the popular belief that he was.
Hitler?s father, alois was the illegitimate son of a servant girl called Maria Schicklguber. Five years after the birth of alois, she married one Johann George Hiedler, but he took no steps to legitimize the boy, who used his mother?s name until he was nearly 40. Then his step-father?s brother, Johann Huttler, persuaded the local priest to amend the parish register to show that Hiedler acknowledged his paternity of Alois, though Huttler himself may well have been his father. Form then on Alois called himself Hitler.
The variations in the spelling of the family name seem to have been due simply to the illiteracy that was then common in rural communities. The amendment took place 12 years before forgotten until his political opponents tried to discredit by revealing his father?s illegitimacy.

THE RED PRIEST

The mother of Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), director of Soviet Russia from 1927 until his death, intended her son to become a priest, not a revolutionary. In 1894, when the young Stalin was 14, he was awarded a scholarship to study at the theological academy in Tifils, the capital city of his native province of Georgia. In 1899, however, he left the academy.
According to his own account he was expelled for preaching Marxism, but according to his mother, he left for reason of health. At the tome, Stalin was known by his original name of Joseph Viddarionovich Dzhugashvili. It was only later, after he became a revolutionary leader, which he adopted as an image building alias the name by which he is known to history: Stalin, or ?man of steel?.

PICKLED HERO

The British admiral Horatio Lord Nelson (1758- 1805), who joined the navy at the age of 12 and was made a captain at 20, made his last sea voyage in a barrel. Mortally wounded in his hour of triumph at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, he died aboard his land for burial pickled in randy to stop it decomposing on the long journey home.

SERGEANT- MAJOR GANDHI

Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948), advocate of nonviolence and leader of India?s struggle for independence form Britain, served twice with British forces was awarded a British decoration. On the outbreak of the Anglo- Boer War in South Africa in 1899, Gandhi was living in Natal. For a mixture of motives, but primarily because of his belief that winning civil rights could come about only by lance Corps of more than 1000 men. At the end of the war, he and 37 others were awarded the War Medal. In 1906 he tried to persuaded the British authorities to accept Indians recruits to help put down a Zulu uprising. The government, however, would accept them only as stretcher- bearers, commanded by Gandhi as sergeant- major. Gandhi?s pro-British stance continued after he left South Africa. On the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, while based in England, he again helped to raise a Field Ambulance Corps from among Indians studying in the country. II- health part in a recruiting drive for the Indian Army at the request of the British administrations.

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