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This is absolutely absurd, but since some fairly educated people actually want to believe it, I write this column. The argument is that Rizal had a German connection, he studied in Heidelberg and being the Pinoy Don Juan he probably sired a son (why not a daughter?) who later turned out to be Adolf Hitler. Hitler was born in 1889, and Rizal left Germany in 1887. Unless Hitler was a delayed baby, that is highly improbable.
Although there is no resemblance between the two, it is argued that, unlike the tall, blond, and blue-eyed Germans, whom Hitler wanted to propagate into the 'master race,’ Hitler himself was small in stature and had dark hair and dark eyes.
I would counter this argument by explaining that, contrary to popular belief, Hitler was an Austrian not a German.
But then Rizal visited Austria in May 1887 and according to Rizal’s traveling companion, Max Viola, he did spend a night with an unknown Austrian woman. Viola remembers that they were billeted in the Hotel Metropole, Vienna and Rizal "…encountered the figure of a temptress in the form of Viennese woman, of the family of the Camelliasor Margarite of extraordinary beauty and irresistible attraction, who seemingly had been expressly invited to offer for a moment the cup of mundane pleasure to the apostle of the Philippine freedom who until then had enjoyed among his intimates the fame worthy of his glorious namesake, St.
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Joseph. With the exception of this case, I knew of no other slip of Rizal during more than six months of our living together."
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