Inside of the concentration and extermination camps of the Second World War, there were
many prisoners who’s stories have been lost to time.
Many people were executed and killed inside of the camps, and the Nazis sought to exterminate
specific groups of people.
When Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, very few predicted how destructive and damaging
his time as the Fuhrer of Germany would be to not just Germany, but to the whole of Europe
and the World.
The Second World War resulted in the deaths of millions of civilians, military personnel
and soldiers, but there was one member of Hitler’s family which was actually killed
by his own horrific Nazi policies.
The story of Hitler’s cousin, Alois Veit is one which is not told, but she was a victim
of her own cousin’s brutality and extermination policies.
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Of Adolf Hitler’s family, there were a number of his relatives who were impacted greatly
by the Second World War.
One of his nephews was killed in brutal fashion during the conflict.
Heinz Hitler was Hitler’s favourite nephew and he was a strong supporter of the Nazis.
It was believed he was being groomed to become in the future a leading Nazi figure, however
he aspired to be an officer in the Wehrmacht.
He then during Operation Barbarossa on the Eastern Front saw service, but was captured
by the Soviet Red Army, and then he was tortured to death inside of a military prison in Moscow.
Hitler offered to swap his nephew for Stalin’s son Yakov Dzhugashvili, however this was rejected
and Heinz Hitler was killed.
Another nephew Leo Rudolf Raubal Junior was drafted into the Luftwaffe, and then he was
injured during the Battle of Stalingrad.
Plans were drafted to evacuate Raubal to Germany but this was refused and he was captured by
the soviets on the 31st January 1943.
Hitler then gave the orders for a prisoner exchange again for Stalin’s son, but this
again was denied and refused, and Raubal spent the rest of the war and 10 years after inside
of different prisons in Moscow.
But there was a much darker story within Hitler’s family of one of his cousins who was brutally
executed and killed by the Nazi party’s policies.
With this it can be viewed that Hitler and his ideas killed his own cousin.
Aloisia Veit was the member of Hitler’s own family that was killed by the Nazi campaign
to wipe out those within Germany who were deemed mentally ill.
She was the great grandchild of Hitler’s great aunt, meaning that she was Hitler’s
second cousin once removed, and she was related to him through his father’s family, the
Schicklgrubers.
Her paternal great grandmother Josepha and Hitler’s paternal grandmother Maria Anna
Schicklgruber were both sisters.
Aloisa was born on the 18th July 1891, inside of Austria Hungary.
She worked in her early life as a chambermaid inside of a large house.
However throughout her life she suffered greatly with mental illness, and she had a number
of struggles.
On the 26th January 1932 she was admitted to the Am Steinhof asylum inside of Vienna
for what was described as ‘conspicuous behaviour,’ and inside of this institution she spent a
total of 9 years in closed wards for her care.
She was not allowed to have many visitors and she in her patient file was said to have
suffered from ‘schizophrenic mental disorder with helplessness and depression, distractedness,
hallucinations and delusions.’
With this she was clearly a very poorly woman, who was suffering, and Aloisia was then transported
to the Viennese municipal sanatorium and nursing home in Ybbs an Der Donau.
It is not know whether Adolf Hitler knew about his cousin’s condition, but there were a
number of known people in Hitler’s family who suffered from physical or mental infirmities,
but in a Gestapo secret report from 1944 he labelled Aloisia’s line of the family as
‘idiotic progeny,’ almost stating that he was regretful that he was related to her
side of the family.
Many of the Schicklgruber family suffered from mental illness, and it was said that
the entire line died out with some of them taking their own lives.
Hitler declared he was proud of his family history and heritage, and claimed he was defended
from Aryan’s, however he would have been very ashamed of his links to Aloisia’s family
especially with their history of mental illness.
Aloisia told the doctors that she was haunted by many ghosts and also that the presence
of a skull tormented her, and inside of her treatment she spent most of her time chained
to her bed.
She claimed at one point in a letter that she wished to be given poison as she wanted
to take her own life as she said, ‘I’m sure it would only require a small amount
to free me from my appauling torture.’
However it would be her cousin’s policies which would result in her execution.
The Action T4 program was a campaign of mass murder and forced euthanasia inside of Nazi
Germany and the occupied lands.
German doctors and physicians selected patients who were deemed incurably sick after most
critical medical examinations,’ and then they were killed by the Nazis.
The Killings began from September 1939 and lated until the end of the Second World War
in 1945.
It’s believed that up to 300,000 patients inside of psychiatric hospitals were killed
in Germany, Austria, Occupied Poland and the Czech Republic.
There was much opposition to this policy, including from the Vatican who said it was
against divine law, ‘that the direct killing of an innocent person because of mental or
physical defects is not allowed,’ but inside of Germany many physicians continued the program.
Hitler deemed these people to be a defect on society, and wanted them getting rid of.
The programme was authorised by Hitler himself, and doctors such as Karl Brandt, Himmler’s
doctor oversaw the large scale genocide.
Many hospitals and mental asylums inside of specific parts of German and occupied territories
were completely emptied with the patients being killed.
Hitler stated on the 1st September 1939 with regards to the policy that, ‘Reich Leader
Bouhler and Dr. Brandt are entrusted with the responsibility of extending the authority
of physicians, to be designated by name, so that patients who, after a most critical diagnosis,
on the basis of human judgment [menschlichem Ermessen], are considered incurable, can be
granted mercy death [Gnadentod].’
With this he allowed more doctors to select people to be victims.
All hospitals, nursing homes, old age homes and sanatoriums were forced to report all
patients who had been held for 5 years or more, and patients declared criminally insane.
Those who had other conditions such as schizofrena, dementia, paralysis and epilepsy were also
selected to die.
The method of killing at times was either through a lethal injection, or through gassings
at a number of specially designed sites around the country.
Aloisia Viet the Second Cousin of Adolf Hitler was one of those women who had been selected
to die through the Action T4 programme, and she was deported from her nursing home and
sanatorium, to Hartheim Castle.
Hartheim Castle was a killing facility where the Action T4 program was administered, and
here it’s believed that around 30,000 people were exterminated inside of the gas chambers
there.
Many people from concentration camps were also executed there.
People from all over Germany and occupied lands were transported to Hartheim Castle,
and within a number of hours of arriving there, they were then killed and executed inside
the gas chambers.
It was the doctors who worked at the death centre who operated the gas tamp and administered
the poison gas to the suffering inmates.
Doctors to escape punishment after the war also tried to cover up their crimes by using
false names in documents.
They were carrying out murder on a large scale, and buses full of patients were being taken
there.
When Aloisia Veit, Hitler’s cousin was transported there she was not at Hartheim Castle long
before she was killed inside of the gas chamber.
On the 6th December 1940, she was taken to the castle where she was then taken to the
gas chamber quickly with the horrific SS doctors turning the gas on.
As mentioned she had suffered greatly with ‘schizophrenic mental instability, helplessness,
and depression, distraction, hallucinations and delusions,’ throughout her life and
she was a prisoners for years inside of various different houses.
She was a member of Hitler’s family who was killed by the policies of the Nazi Party
that he led, and it believed that Hitler probably didn’t think twice about the death of his
cousin, as he regarded her mental health as something that could have been damaging to
his reputation.
Many in Germany may have seen his links to Aloisia as a negative thing, and may have
looked down at him because of this.
But Aloisia Veit was the cousin of Adolf Hitler murdered and executed by the Action T4 which
was signed off and supported by the Fuhrer of Germany.
She was one of around 300,000 killed under the program by doctors who sought to wipe
those who were mentally ill out of Germany, and the policy was very controversial and
caused a huge amount of criticism for the Nazis.
It was state organised mass murder of those in society that needed help.
Hitler showed his ruthless side and how he would stop at nothing to impose what he believed
onto Germany and the occupied lands.
He would even impose death upon his own family members, and aloisia Veit is remembered as
Hitler’s cousin who incurred his brutal wrath.
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