Stefanie Rabatsch

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Stefanie Rabatsch (née Isak; 26 December 1887 – 22 December 1975) was an Austrian woman who was allegedly an unrequited love of then-teenage Adolf Hitler, a claim made by Hitler's childhood friend August Kubizek. Her Jewish-sounding maiden name, Isak, has been subject to speculation in this context. However, there is no evidence apart from Kubizek that Hitler ever had such an attachment. Kubizek, a childhood friend and later biographer of his childhood experience with Hitler, wrote about Stefanie in his book, Adolf Hitler, My Childhood Friend. He alleges that Hitler fell in love with her after she passed by him during her daily daughter-mother stroll in Linz, glancing at him. In Kubizek's account, although in love with her nearly to the point of suicide, Adolf Hitler never once spoke with her, and she later married an Austrian army officer. Stefanie stated in interviews that she was unaware of Hitler's feelings towards her. She was buried on 9 January 1976 in Kalksburg, Vienna. The one-sided relationship has been discussed in many books. Some question the accuracy of Kubizek's memoir, the only source for the story. Others accept that there is some basis of fact, but downplay the significance of the youthful…Citește mai mult

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Background August Kubizek, a music student from Linz, first met Hitler when the two were competing for a place to stand during an opera performance. According to him, Hitler's passion for Stefanie began in spring 1905, when he was 16 and attending school in Linz, and she was 17; and lasted until 1909, when he was 20. Kubizek describes the first time he heard about Hitler's obsession as follows: "One evening in the spring of 1905, as we were taking our usual stroll, Adolf gripped my arm and asked me excitedly what I thought of that slim blonde girl walking along the Landstrasse arm-in-arm with her mother. 'You must know, I'm in love with her,' he added resolutely." Stefanie Maria Beata Isak was born on 26 December 1887 in Niemes, Kingdom of Bohemia. She came from a family of higher social class than Hitler's and was more than a year older than him. Stefanie had returned to Linz after professional training in Munich and Geneva. She had a brother, Karl Richard Isak, who was studying law in Vienna. In the 1950s, Dr. Franz Jetzinger had two pictures of Stefanie in her youth, one from 1904 and one in ball dress…Citește mai mult

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Alleged interaction with Hitler According to Kubizek, Hitler never spoke to Stefanie, always saying he would do so "tomorrow". Kubizek wrote that Hitler loathed those who flirted with her, especially the military officers, whom he called "conceited blockheads"; he came to feel an "uncompromising enmity towards the officer class as a whole, and everything military in general. It annoyed him that Stefanie mixed with such idlers who, he insisted, wore corsets and used scent". Hitler insisted that Kubizek stalk Stefanie and delivered daily reports on her activity while he was away visiting his mother or family. In one report, Kubizek wrote that Stefanie loved to dance and had taken lessons. Hitler disliked dancing and reportedly replied, "Stefanie only dances because she is forced to by society on which she unfortunately depends. Once Stefanie is my wife, she won't have the slightest desire to dance!" In June 1906, Stefanie allegedly gave Hitler a smile and a flower from her bouquet as she was passing him in her carriage. Kubizek later described the scene:"Never again did I see Adolf as happy as he was at that moment. When the carriage had passed he dragged me aside and with emotion he gazed at…Citește mai mult

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Later years Little is known about Stefanie's overall life. She became engaged in 1908 to an officer in the Hessian regiment stationed in Linz. On 24 October 1910, Stefanie married Maximilian Rabatsch (* 1872 in Vienna), sixteen years older than her, in Vienna in St. Gertrud, Gertrudplatz 5, in the parish of Währing. Maximilian was appointed captain on 1 November 1909. He was promoted to major on 1 October 1917 and to colonel on 1 August 1918. According to Kubizek, her husband became a high-ranking officer, she was widowed on 15 July 1942, and after the end of World War II (1939–45) she lived in Vienna. Stefanie was interviewed and Hitler's alleged love for her dramatised in a 1973 Austro-German television film called A Young Man From the Innviertel. She could not understand why Hitler, if he felt so strongly, had not given her any indication of his attachment, saying, "Hitler would hardly have suffered from too much shyness".

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Maiden name Stefanie's maiden name, Isak, sounds Jewish, although she was not Jewish. Kubizek spelled it Isaak. The correct spelling was identified by German historian Anton Joachimsthaler in his 2003 work Hitlers Liste: Ein Dokument persönlicher Beziehungen (Munich, 2003, pp. 46–52). Some historians opine that Hitler would have assumed Stefanie was of Jewish origin. American historian Graeme Donald believes Hitler would have inferred that she was Jewish, but saw no problems with this at the time because his notoric and radical antisemitsm started some years later. This view is supported by Joachimsthaler, who stated in a BBC interview that Hitler must have assumed she was Jewish because of her Jewish-sounding surname.

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Scholarly reactions The role of Rabatsch in Hitler's life has been widely studied. Sherree Owens Zalampas, in a book analyzing the relationship between Hitler's views on art and his psychology, notes that the stories about Rabatsch have been rejected by some scholars and accepted by others. Among those who reject stories about Rabatsch are Franz Jetzinger and Bradley F. Smith. Bradley F. Smith discussed the story in his 1967 Adolf Hitler; his family, childhood, and youth. Franz Jetzinger discussed the story in his 1958 Hitler's Youth. Jetzinger attacked Kubizek in his book, but confirmed that Stefanie existed although she did not at the time know of the alleged infatuation. In Jetzinger's analysis, Kubizek overstates the relationship between Rabatsch and Hitler, and some of the interactions Kubizek describes are impossible given the timelines of their lives, and the focus of biographers on the relationship represents a misguided attempt to fabricate an early "love interest" for Hitler. Werner Maser agrees with this view in his 1971 Adolf Hitler: Legende, Mythos, Wirklichkeit, and suggests that Hitler's behavior towards Rabatsch was typical for Austrian adolescents of his era. Zalampas notes that Kubizek claims that Hitler was interested in Rabatsch's singing voice, which Kubizek claimed…Citește mai mult