Taking something and turning it into a representation of Adolf
Hitler, whose father'
s original name was Alois Schicklgruber.
See Wikipedia for biography: Alois
Hitler was born illegitimate. For the first 39 years of his life he bore his mother'
s surname, Schicklgruber. In 1876, he took the surname of his stepfather, Johann Georg Hiedler. The name was spelled Hiedler, Huetler, Huettler and
Hitler and probably changed to "
Hitler" by a clerk. The origin of the name is either from the German word Hittler and similar, "one who lives in a hut", "shepherd", or from the Slavic word Hidlar and Hidlarcek.
Allied propaganda exploited Hitler's original family name during World War II. Pamphlets bearing the phrase "Heil Schicklgruber" were airdropped over German cities.