GERMANY: The Brothers Hitler

Adolf Hitler went to Berlin and in 1933 made good as Chancellor, Realmleader and Dictator. Another Hitler had come to Berlin a year before and likewise made good in his own way. but the Führer never publicly notices him. Alois, half brother of Adolf, also sprouts an oblong, dark mustache, but, unlike his abstinent vegetarian, nonsmoking, bachelor kinsman, Alois, a restaurant owner, goes for good solid food eased down with steins of German beer, puffs on cigars, has a 17-year-old son. Unlike the camera-famous Führer, Alois shies from newshounds, picture-takers.

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