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Mickey, this is kind of a wild off the wall possibility, but have you read historian John Toland's biography of Adolf Hitler?
He mentions that there was a Frankenburger family around the Austrian-Bavarian border whose housekeeper Maria Shicklgruber, was Hitler's grandmother. Although these particular Frankenbergers were Jewish, a conversion to Roman Catholicism isn't impossible. Such things happened in the fairly tolerant cospomolitan Austria, as in the case of filmaker Fritz Lang's mother, a Jewsh convert to her husband's Catholicism.
There's an even wilder possibility than all this. Hitler's grandmother became an unwed mother in 1837 and the then 19 year old son of the Frankenberger household is mentioned as one of the two main suspects, which if true would have made him...as bizarre as this may sound... Hitler's Jewish grandfather.
Jim Scribner in Texas
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