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What was the family name of Paula Hitler from 1896 to 1936?
Paula Hitler Paula Hitler , also known as Paula Wolff and Paula Hitler-Wolff , ( 26 January 1896 – 1 June 1960 ) was the younger sister of Adolf Hitler and the last child of Alois Hitler and his third wife , Klara Pölzl . Pre-war life . Paula Hitler was born in Hafeld , Austria on 26 January 1896 to Alois Hitler and Klara Hitler née Pölzl . She was Adolf Hitlers only full sister . She was six years old when her father , a retired customs official , died , and eleven when she lost her mother Klara , after which the Austrian government provided a small pension to Paula and Adolf . However , the amount was relatively meager and Hitler , who was by then old enough to support himself , agreed to sign his share over to her . Paula later moved to Vienna . In the early 1920s , she was hired as a housekeeper at a dormitory for Jewish university students . In 1921 , while she worked at the dormitory , she was visited by her brother who she said appeared as if he had fallen from heaven . For the most part , she had no other contact with her brother during his struggling years as a painter in Vienna and later Munich , his military service during World War I and his early political activities back . She was delighted to meet him again in Vienna during the early 1930s . Paula used the surname Hiedler , the original spelling of Hitler . By her own account , after losing a job with the Austrian State Insurance Company on 2 August 1930 when her employers found out who she was , Paula received financial support of 250 schillings a month from her brother , and lived under the assumed surname of Wolff at Hitlers request . Wolf was a childhood nickname of his which he had also used during the 1920s for security purposes . Hitler appears to have had a low opinion of Paulas intelligence , referring to both Paula and their half-sister Angela as stupid geese . Paula later claimed to have seen her brother about once a year during the 1930s and early 1940s . She worked as a secretary in a military field hospital for much of World War II . On 14 April 1945 , during the closing days of the war , at the age of 49 , she was driven by two SS men to Berchtesgaden , Germany – the location of Hitlers summer home , the Berghof – apparently on the orders of Martin Bormann . She and her half-sister , Angela were each given 100,000 marks on Hitlers orders . There is some evidence Paula shared her brothers strong German nationalist beliefs , but she was not politically active and never joined the Nazi Party . Post-war life . Paula was arrested by US counter-intelligence officers on 26 May 1945 and interviewed on 12 July . A transcript shows one of the agents remarking she bore a physical resemblance to her brother . She told them that the Soviets had confiscated her house in Austria , that the Americans had expropriated her Vienna apartment , and that she was taking English lessons . She characterized her childhood relationship with her brother as one of both constant bickering and strong affection . Paula said that she could not bring herself to believe that her brother had been responsible for the Holocaust . She had also told them that she had met Eva Braun only once . After her debriefing , Paula was released from American custody and returned to Vienna , where she lived on her savings for a time , then worked in an arts and crafts shop . She returned to Berchtesgaden on 1 December 1952 and took up full-time residence there under the name Paula Wolff or Paula Hitler-Wolff , in connection with a claim she had filed under Hitlers will , which had been denied by a court . During this time , she was looked after by former members of the SS and survivors of her brothers inner circle . In February 1959 , she agreed to be interviewed by Peter Morley , a documentary producer for Associated-Rediffusion , an ITV commercial station in Great Britain . The conversation was the only filmed interview she ever gave and was broadcast as part of a programme called Tyranny : The Years of Adolf Hitler . She talked mostly about Hitlers childhood and refused to be drawn on political questions . Footage from this and a contemporary interview with Peter Morley was included in the 2005 television documentary The Hitler Family ( original German title Familie Hitler . Im Schatten des Diktators ) , directed by Oliver Halmburger and Thomas Staehler . Death and burial . Paula died on 1 June 1960 in Schönau near Berchtesgaden , at the age of 64 , the last surviving member of Hitlers immediate family . She was buried in the Bergfriedhof in Berchtesgaden/Schönau under the name Paula Hitler . In June 2005 , the wooden grave marker and remains were reportedly removed and replaced with another burial , a common practice in German cemeteries after two or more decades have elapsed . In May 2006 , however , it was reported the grave marker had been returned to Paulas grave and a second marker had been added , indicating another more recent burial in the same spot . Five months after her death , the Federal Court in Berchtesgaden issued a certificate of inheritance in which Paula Hitler was awarded two-thirds of Hitlers estate .