This man is Eduard Bloch

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This man is Eduard Bloch, a Jewish doctor from Austria who cared for the Hitler family. He worked in Linz, Austria, and treated Adolf Hitler’s parents for almost ten years.

Because the Hitlers had little money, Bloch charged them very little or sometimes nothing at all. In 1907, he found out that Adolf’s mother, Klara Pölzl, had breast cancer. Bloch gave her medicine that helped ease her pain and made her last days more comfortable before she died that year.

In 1925, Hitler thanked Bloch in his book, saying, “I will always be grateful to you.” In 1937, Hitler called him a “noble Jew” and said he had a lot of respect for him. In 1938, Bloch wrote to Hitler asking for help, and the Gestapo gave him special protection. He was the only Jewish person in Linz with this protection.

In 1940, Bloch moved to New York in the United States but didn’t work as a doctor anymore because his medical degree was not accepted there. In 1941 and 1943, American secret agents talked to him to learn about Hitler’s childhood. He said Hitler’s mother was very kind and religious, and that when she was about to die, Hitler was “the saddest person he had ever seen.”

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