Robert Stolarik for The New York Times
The Long Island grave of William Hitler, whose father was Hitler's half-brother.
Posted on 04/24/2006 3:32:31 AM PDT by Pharmboy
Robert Stolarik for The New York Times
The Long Island grave of William Hitler, whose father was Hitler's half-brother.
Associated Press
William Patrick Hitler, 28, arriving in
America with his mother in 1939.
The Long Island landscaper peeked out the door. It was another visitor arriving with a press pass and the H-word on his lips, snip... The visitor asked the about his father, who was William Patrick Hitler, son of Alois Hitler Jr., who was Adolf Hitler's half-brother (they shared the same father). Alois called his son Willy. The Führer called Willy "my loathsome nephew."
Willy Hitler was born in 1911 in Liverpool, and in his early years occasionally sought to take advantage of his last name, in England, Germany and then America, where he moved in 1939. After World War II, though, he decided to change the name and moved from New York City out to Patchogue on Long Island. He raised four sons — Alexander, Louis, Howard and Brian — before he died in 1987 at age 76.
Howard died in a car accident in 1989. The other brothers continued low-profile jobs, snip...They are also the last members of Adolf Hitler's paternal bloodline.
snip...
A new play, "Little Willy," based on their father's life is playing this month in Manhattan, snip..."Why would we talk to someone else when we're writing our own book?" he said. "We have a lawyer and an agent."
Would the book address the intriguing stories that have circulated about them in this part of Long Island for decades? Did Willy really blackmail Uncle Adolf with information suggesting that the Führer could be half-Jewish? Did one of Willy's sons really have the middle name Adolf? Since all four brothers were childless, was it because of a pact to end the Hitler bloodline?
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Wouldn't we have heard of this already if it was true?
Ditto. I guess it's got a correct headline, eh?
As I recall, William Patrick Hitler actually served in the United States Navy during World War II.
I can only imagine what mail call must have been like.
Oh it's true, all right. No question...
Germany was having trouble, what a sad, sad story
Needed a new leader to restore its former glory
Where, Oh where was he? Where could that man be?
We looked around and then we found
The man for you and me.
And now it's..
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Deutschland is happy and gay
We're marching to a faster pace
Look out, here comes the master race
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Winter for Poland and France
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Come on, Germans, go into your dance
I was born in Dusseldorf, and that is why they call me Rolf
Don't be stupid, be a smarty, come and join the Nazi party
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Goosestep's the new step today
bombs falling from the skies again
Deutschland is on the rise again
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Uboats are sailing once more
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Means that soon we'll be going
We've got to be going
You know we'll be going to WAR!
Springtime For Hitler (Movie Version) Lyrics
MEL BROOKS
Goering had two
but very small.
If their Father Willy was half nephew to Hitler, would they have been half grand-nephews?
You can't pick your relatives.
I actually caught a T.V. program a few years ago (History Channel ?) regarding the living nephews of Hitler. They did, in fact, make a pact to not have children out of fear that their offspring would be like Uncle Adolf.
There was a program on he History Channel about Hitler's relatives, and they said there were some here in the U.S., and they changed names etc to completely avoid any spotlight.
Indeed they are...
"You can't pick your relatives."
Pretty much my reaction. I had heard of Adolf Hitler's half-brother previously. I had also heard that another relative had moved to the U.S. (I believe prior to WWI), bought land out west, died, and left some of it to 'Dolf prior to WWII. The land was confiscated by the US government during WWII, as belonging to an enemy alien.
I think I read that in a book titled "Putsch," written back in the 1960s. It was in one of the many history books about WWII I read in Jr High and High School. (Generally in class, when I shoulda been paying attention to teach.)
Imagine the political power a charismatic Hitler-related person would have among the extremists?
I think she knows this, too.
Imagine the unwanted attention they'd get.
"Hitler's half-grandnephew washed his car, carefully spraying road dust off his Bush/Cheney bumper sticker...."
It's hard to tell if it is true, or not. It's in the NYT, you know.
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