Eduard Bloch - The Only Jew in Nazi Germany Protected by Adolf Hitler - Klara Hitler - Anschluss

Eduard Bloch - The Only Jew in Nazi Germany Protected by Adolf Hitler - Klara Hitler - Anschluss. Eduard Bloch was born on the 30th of January 1872 in Frauenberg, then part of Austria-Hungary. Bloch studied medicine in Prague and then served as a medical officer in the Austrian army. In 1899 he was ordered to Linz in Upper Austria, where he opened a private practice in 1901. Willing to call on patients at any time at night, Eduard Bloch was held in high regard, particularly among the families of lower and indigent social classes. Among such families was the family of Klara Hitler. Her husband Alois Hitler, who was ’awfully rough’ with her and ’hardly ever spoke a word to her at home, had died in 1903. Their marriage produced 6 children. Alois Hitler was a stern, masterful, and often irritable father who demanded unquestioning respect and obedience from his children and used the switch whenever his expectations were not met. One of his children was Adolf Hitler. In 1906, Klara Hitler dis