It was at this time that the first ideals took shape in my breast. Near the Upper Austrian market village of Lambach he bought a farm, which he worked himself, and thus, in the circuit of a long and industrious life, returned to the origins of his forefathers. According to Adolf: 'When finally, at the age of fifty-six, he went into retirement, he could not bear to spend a single day of his leisure in idleness. For the next four years he moved restlessly from one district to another near Linz, buying and selling farms, raising bees, and spent most of his time drinking in local inns. In 1895, when Adolf Hitler was six years old, his father, Alois Hitler retired from government service. The fifth and last child, Paula, was born in 1896. Edmund was born in 1894 but lived only six years. On 20th April 1889, Klara gave birth to her fourth child, Adolf. In December 1887 both Gustav and Ida contracted diphtheria and died within weeks of each other. The first of the children of Alois's third marriage, Gustav, was born in May 1885, to be followed in September the following year by a second child, Ida, and another son, Otto, who died only days after his birth. As they were second cousins they had to apply for episcopal dispensation to permit the marriage. Alois also began a sexual relationship with Klara and on 7th January, 1885, the couple married. Franziska, aged twenty-three, died in August, 1884. Franziska developed tuberculosis and Alois invited Klara to return to the home to look after his two young children. When Anna Hitler died in 1883, Alois married Franziska and two months after the wedding she gave birth to a second child, Angela. In 1882 Franziska gave birth to a child named Alois. (3)ДЇranziska saw Klara as a potential rival and insisted that she left the household. It is claimed he did this to inherit money from Johann Nepomuk Hiedler (Hitler was an another way of spelling Hiedler - both mean 'smallholding' in German. In 1877 Alois changed his surname from Schickelgruber to Hitler. Soon afterwards Alois began a sexual relationship with another maid in the house, Franziska Matzelberger. Klara Polzl, Adolf Hitler's mother, left home at sixteen to join the household of her second cousin, Alois Hitler.

The marriage to a woman fourteen years older than himself had almost certainly a material motive, since Anna was relatively well off, and in addition had connections within the civil service.' Anna suffered from poor health and her age meant that she was unable to have children. According to Ian Kershaw, the author of Hitler 1889-1936 (1998): 'It is unlikely to have been a love-match. In 1873 he had married Anna Glasl, the fifty-year-old adopted daughter of another customs collector. His father Alois Hitler, the illegitimate son of a housemaid, was an intelligent and ambitious man and was at the time of Adolf Hitler's birth, a senior customs official in Lower Austria. Both Hitler's parents had come from poor peasant families. Adolf Hitler was born on 20th April, 1889, in the small Austrian town of Braunau near the German border.

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