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Hitler’s Apartment Block Neighbor is Still Alive
And she’s Jewish.
Before gaining power as Germany’s Chancellor in 1933, Hitler was just a failed artist and political enthusiast. One only has as much power as people are willing to give them, after all. Hitler and his Nazi Party had failed in the Munich Putsch (an uprising in Munich) during the Weimar Republic. As a result, he had just spent 9 months in prison for treason where he wrote Mein Kampf. He was just getting back on his feet when he lived in an apartment building in the Prinzregentenplatz neighborhood, Munich, along with Alice Frank Stock — who is now 102 years old.
Was Hitler a Friendly Neighbor?
Alice Frank Stock had been living in the apartment building since her parents had moved there when she was just a newborn baby, in 1919. Her family was Jewish and her father had relocated them because of a job he got in Munich as a High Court judge.
As a result, Stock spent almost a decade as Hitler’s neighbor, ever since she was a small child. She mostly just saw Hitler coming in and out of the building and going to his apartment followed by SS guards. At the time, she didn’t know what they represented.
However, she was close enough to Hitler that rumors of his apartment inevitably reached her family and her young ears…
