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Alois soon abandoned the family to return to Germany leaving William Patrick to be raised by his mother. Alois remarried, bigamously, but re-established contact in the mid- 1920s writing to Bridget asking her to send William Patrick to Weimar Republic Germany to visit. She finally agreed in 1929 and William Patrick went to Germany at the age of 18 to visit his estranged father. In 1933 , William Patrick Hitler returned to Nazi Germany in an attempt to benefit from his uncle's rise to power. His uncle found him a job in a bank. Later, he worked at the Opel car factory and then as a car salesman. Unsatisfied, William Patrick persisted in asking his uncle for a better job and there were rumours that he might sell embarrassing stories about the family to the press if he wasn't satisfied. In 1938 , William Patrick was asked by his uncle Adolf to relinquish his British citizenship in exchange for a high ranking job. Fearing a trap, William Patrick panicked and fled Germany. Returning to London he wrote an article for '' Look Magazine '' titled "Why I hate my uncle". In 1939 , William Patrick and his mother went to the United States on a lecture tour on the invitation of William Randolph Hearst . The Hitlers were stranded in the United States when World War II broke out. William Patrick Hitler joined the United States Navy in 1944 . A coincidence resulted in a comical scene when he went to the draft office; William Patrick introduced himself to a recruiting officer who replied, "Glad to see you Hitler, my name's Hess." William Patrick Hitler served in the US Navy and the Naval Medical Corps before being discharged in 1947 . After leaving the service he changed his last name, married, moved to Patchogue, Long Island and had four sons. He used his medical training to establish a business analysing blood samples for hospitals. He died in 1987 and was buried alongside his mother, Bridget , in a cemetery in Long Island . However, despite his public disapproval of his uncle's ideology, there are some puzzles in what is known of William Patrick Hitler's life. Not only did William Patrick give his eldest son the middle name of Adolf, but the last name William Patrick adopted was Stewart-Houston "The Hitler family tree" , (2002) by Hal Bastin, accessed April 15, 2006, similar to that of famous British Anti-Semitic ideologist Houston Stewart Chamberlain . The family has since altered the spelling of their family name to Stuart-Houston "The Officer Down Memorial Page" , accessed April 15, 2006. One of his four sons, Howard, died in an automobile accident in 1989 "The Officer Down Memorial Page" , accessed April 15, 2006 without having had any children. The three remaining great-nephews of Adolf Hitler (Alexander Adolf, Louis and Brian) were alleged to have vowed not to have children"Hitler's Great-Nephews Writing Book on Long Island, NYT Says," Bloomberg News, April 24, 2006; The youngest of the siblings has stated that he knows of no such pact, and that if it had been made, it was made by the other two brothers without his involvement. Regardless, these are the last three members of Adolf Hitler's paternal bloodline. In October 2005 , The History Channel aired a one hour documentary entitled ''Hitler's Family'', in which William Patrick Hitler is profiled along with other relatives of Adolf Hitler. In April 2006 , '' Little Willy '', a play by Mark Kassen examining the life of William Patrick Hitler, opened at the Ohio Theater in New York. EXTERNAL LINKS
REFERENCES David Gardner, ''The Last of the Hitlers'', BMM, 2001, ISBN 0-9541544-0-1 John Toland, ''Adolf Hitler'', ISBN 0385420536 |
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