Three of Hitler's great-nephews are currently living on Long Island, New York, according to the New Yorker magazine. The men range in age from their mid-thirties to early fifties. They run a small business and live under different names.
The discovery has solved the riddle of what happened to the descendants of Hitler's Irish nephew, William Patrick Hitler.

While working as a waiter in the Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin in 1909, Adolf's half-brother Alois, met and eloped with seventeen year old Brigid Dowling - much to the annoyance of the Dowling family. Brigid's father William Dowling was not finally reconciled to the match until 1911 when he attended the christening of his grandchild, William Patrick Hitler in Liverpool.

In the thirties, William moved to Berlin and became a socialite, cashing in on the glamour of the Hitler name. He sported a Fuhrer-style moustache and parted his hair on the right. However, he found his uncle was opposed to nepotism and failed to get a good position in Germany. Adolf Hitler is said to have described him as 'one of my most repulsive relatives'.

In 1939, months before Germany invaded Poland, William travelled to New York and toured America telling stories about his uncle at public venues. He attracted audiences of up to 1,500.

In 1944, he joined the American navy - strangely, he was sworn in by a man called Rudolph Hess - where he served as a seaman first class. After the war he tried to escape his past by changing his name. He applied for a social security card under the name William Hiller, went to work for a urologist in Manhattan - and disappeared. The last report of William Patrick was by the historian John Toland who was able to confirm that he was alive in 1977.
Now, the New Yorker reveals that William Patrick changed his name again when he married a German woman; that he moved to Long Island and that he died in 1987 aged 76. The relatives on Long Island are three of his four sons, the eldest died in the 1980s.


*I also read that Patrick Hitler had to appeal to FDR in order to serve, obviously FDR approved.

I want to hear about his long lost cousin Irving, who was a dentist in Jersey!


Jim

PS- this is not to be confused with Hitler's illegitimate son, David Irving!