Klara Hitler was born in August 1860 as Klara Poelzl. She was Adolf Hitler's mother, a woman so totally devoted to her young son that she was unwilling or unable to acknowledge her son's unstable emotional behavior. When Adolf was a teenager, Klara was diagnosed with breast cancer. She underwent a double mastectomy and died in Austria in 1907. Notably, she was cared for by a local Jewish physician, Dr. Eduard Bloch.


Stockard Channing recently won Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for "The West Wing" and for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for "The Matthew Shephard Story." She was nominated for an Emmy and a Golden Globe Award for "The Baby Dance." Other television credits include the movies "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister," "The Piano Man's Daughter," "The Truth About Jane" and "An Unexpected Life." She was nominated for both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for the feature film "Six Degrees of Separation."