How William Patrick Hitler Defied Adolf: A Family Betrayal WW2

Before World War II, Adolf Hitler was one of the most famous men in the world.  planet. He rose to power as dictator of Germany, became an author  success and was named Person of the Year by Time magazine in 1938, as the individual who  most influenced world events, for better or worse.  But the Hitler the public saw was carefully constructed.

 Behind the speeches,  behind the uniforms and gatherings was a private life that the regime worked tirelessly to conceal. His family history was chaotic, fractured and deeply  embarrassing for the image he projected. Rather than a clean family tree,  it was a tangle of scandals,  instability and personal failures. Those closest to Hitler understood the stakes.

 Their position, their power and their survival were linked to his image and they closed ranks to  protect her. Relatives suffering from mental illnesses, having a criminal record or  Detrimental social histories have quietly disappeared from public view. Even the death of his  half-niece,  Angela Maria Geli-Robel, was treated like something that could never be talked about  openly. Nobody talked about family.

 No one disputed the story, except  of a man. Who was William Patrick Hitler? How was he related to Adolf? What  was her relationship with Adolf? What did he do to make his uncle angry?  hello I am Colin Hiton former history teacher veteran of the army and corps  marines and welcome to this episode of forgotten history the beginning of the most difficult 26 days  from the history of the marine corps with confidence in our armed forces the 36th president of the states  united died this afternoon he told his children and the women present to cancel.

 William Patrick Hitler was born on March 12, 1911 in Liverpool, England. His father,  Alois Hitler Jr., was the half-brother of Adolf Hitler. He was a public drunkard,  a brainy womanizer and a big gamer. William’s mother, Bridget Dolling, was a  Irish woman whom Alois had married without the blessing of his family.

 And Alois,  being one step ahead of the law, abandoned the family and returned to  Germany when William was very young.  William was raised by Bridget in modest, working-class circumstances, as a single mother.  Patrick grew up in a perfectly normal British environment, without any Nazi upbringing.  His friends described him as bright, energetic and a little arrogant, someone who knew his famous last name, but he didn’t flaunt it.

 William’s upbringing was very British. He attended St. Alawishia’s School in London, then studied at Liverpool Technical School, without much interest in a  academic future. He was considered very intelligent and quite the hands-on type.  And growing up, William despised his father, A la Ouisse, and never forgave him for abandoning them.

 But he attempted a reconciliation.  In the late 1920s, after reconnecting with his father, he traveled to Germany and enrolled in a business and management school in Berlin, specializing in banking, finance and automobiles.  He bullied his way into meetings, dropping Hitler’s name as if it were a VIP pass and attempting to land a lucrative job in the Nazi bureaucracy  in full swing.

 He worked briefly at the car manufacturer Opel, the Berliner Bank, the Reich  Bank, then attempted to climb the ladder using his last name as leverage,  but he held mainly menial jobs, and Adolf Hitler was extremely  unhappy when William began using his connections to seek better positions.  William and Adolf Hitler separated after a meeting during which he attempted to blackmail his uncle,  saying in the presence of other people, I quote,  “Give me a job or I’ll go to the press with embarrassing family details.” »

 End of quote.  But what could Patrick have revealed given Hitler’s carefully crafted cover-up of his national socialist working-class past?  Well, Hitler had always promoted the traditional family and its values ​​as essential to a strong society, and he was right.  But William knew many things that Adolf and his entourage could not let out and which could harm the image of the Nazi party.

 One of the facts was the bigamy of Alawis Junior.And William claimed to have evidence of Adolf Hitler’s adjacent Jewish ancestry, which at the time was just rumor.  There was also a history of schizophrenia in the family on his father’s side.  Basically, the Nazis preferred to hide family chaos from the public eye.

 Adolf himself was furious.  Very few people dared to speak to him that way.  The fact that his own nephew makes it ten times worse. Adolphe himself was furious. Very few people dared to speak to him that way.  The fact that his own nephew makes it ten times worse.  A witness to these events, SS Lieutenant General Karl Wolf, said “Himmler and I were sitting in a meeting with a few other officers when Hydroch came in and he was very angry.

 »  He said something like “S. Arrogant threatens to expose all the idiots in the Furious family, forgetting that he is one of them.”  It must be remembered that Hydroch had files on everyone, even Hitler himself.  There was apparently enough material to make even Hydrich and Himmler very nervous.  Meanwhile, Nazi leaders began discreetly monitoring him.

 German military intelligence services, LAB, monitored each of these movements,  just like the Gestapo and the Seasheitz or SD, the security and intelligence branch  of the SS. These phones were tapped. He was followed. The Gestapo opened a file  on him. Anyone he spoke to was questioned.

 In 1938, Adolf Hitler had  enough, and he gave William several options. He was given a choice. Become a German citizen  and officially join the Reich or leave Germany and never return. William,  rather intelligent, knew that becoming a German citizen would place him under the total control of  Nazis. Goodbye freedom. Good morning. Accidental disappearance.

 William was not welcome  in the inner circle of the Nazis and he knew it. So he fled Germany by the next train. But he had a plan. In 1939, William published a damning article in the magazine  Look titled “Why I Hate My Uncle”. And it wasn’t subtle. He revealed the cruelty  and Adolf’s hypocrisy, such as choosing who was Jewish or not, and revealed the dynamic  twisted insider of the Hitler family.

 It seemed more  bitter towards Adolf than the average Allied soldier during the war. When the item was  published, Hitler was furious and he had company. Hitler was furious and  called William a traitor and a propaganda threat. He considered William to be  someone to deal with if you could get hold of him. In late 1939 and early 1940, Himmler’s men quietly explored options.

 Discredit him, kidnap him if he returned to Europe, or stage an accident.  Nothing formal was put on paper because written orders regarding the murder of Furet’s nephew would have been politically radioactive.  Luckily for William, he was in New York with his mother, Phyllis,  and Nazi sympathizers and German agents in the United States were ordered to locate him.

 According to Wolf,  I quote, “there was a difference of opinion on what should be done with him.” Hitler wanted  silence him, but he never talked about killing him. Martin Bormann, Reinhardt Hidrich and  Isef Gerbals believed his death would be preferable to his silencing. Hitler  also agreed, but he believed such action would only support public claims  by Williams and would make Hitler look as bad as he claimed.

 And Hitler  agreed, calling him disgraceful, that he could not be trusted as a  someone who should not be allowed to speak further. It was not an assassination order,  but in Nazi parlance, it was one step closer to his disappearance.  End of quote  Nazi sympathizers in America reported these movements as best they could, but William was protected.

 Upon his arrival, he introduced himself to the FBI, who were stunned when he told them who he was.  The level of interest could not be underestimated.  The level of interest could not be underestimated.  Naturally, William was questioned several times to determine his political beliefs,  whether he harbored Nazi sympathies and whether he was perhaps acting under duress.

 The FBI was very effective in tracking down and arresting German agents before and during the war,  often working directly with the mafia, and watch our video on Lucky Luciano for this story.  He knew the Nazis were trying to find William, and he could only imagine their goal.

The American Bund members managed to learn that he was in New York,  to identify the headquarters where he worked,  to trace his entry papers and follow his public interventions between 1939 and 1940, but they never obtained specific information such as his address  or his daily routine. He continued to make public speeches attacking his uncle and the  Nazism.

 These events attracted widespread attention, and the FBI was able to arrest some  spies who attended. But the government was worried. He was a propaganda tool  valuable after the war began, making it an even bigger target. British intelligence took the threat very seriously.  But Hoover and the government became concerned when counterintelligence agents declared  later to Allied interrogators, supported by interrogations of captured spies and  corroborated MI5 reports from their Enigma intercepts, that the SS considered it  absolutely like a target, especially after arriving in the United States. Nazi sympathizers in America had been

 alerted. But Himmler never gave the order to kill him, and for good reason.  Killing him would bring international attention to Hitler’s family tree, which  Fanatics of Himmler’s genealogy had spent years trying to purify it. Himmler  had made a career  by being essential, but not reckless, and he was not going to authorize something that would have  was able to make Hitler believe that he was meddling in family matters, which Hitler hated.

 Himmler was not going to launch a secret foreign assassination program for a runaway nephew.  Abar and Nazi Party cells in the United States had received informal instruction. Find it, report its activities and monitor for possible vulnerabilities.  Nazi sympathizer Bruderbund was already closely monitored by the FBI, so his movements are well documented.

 But another factor that’s never really been discussed is how the FBI managed to locate so many Nazi spies, particularly those who were tracking William Patrick.  The answer was Admiral Wilhelm Canary who led the abbot from 1935 to 1945.  Canary was a staunch anti-Nazi who aided the Allies before and during the war by providing German military information to the British and Americans while giving Adolf Hitler misinformation that contradicted  often other intelligence services.

 Canary gave the FBI and MI5 everything they needed to stop the spies  and German saboteurs.  The FBI suggested William change his name and keep a low profile.  So he became William Patrick Stewart Houston and was assigned a 24-hour rotating security team,  24 and 7J, 7.

 Another part of its value was to help the government profile  Hitler’s psychology, what we would today call behavioral analysis.  The United States wanted to know what made Adolf Hitler tick. They already had thousands  pages of information, but William gave them more specific information. When William  enlisted in the US Navy in 1944 under his new name, it was the ultimate insult  for Adolf.

 In fact, William openly stated that he wanted to fight because of  the identity of his uncle. This irony was not lost on the offices or the Nazis. As a result,  FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover became personally involved.  And after successfully passing the FBI’s examination, including a deep dive into his past using information provided by Britain’s MI5, as well as a polygraph test which he passed with flying colors, he was exonerated.

 Because of his political sensitivity, Williams’ enlistment also required higher approval than through normal channels.  J.G. Hoover was understandably concerned and cautious, but after British intelligence vouched for Williams and Navy intelligence specifically requested it, Hoover finally gave the go-ahead.

 But there was another obstacle. Hoover said, quote, “He’s a Hitler, yes, but not that kind of Hitler.”  End of quote. And official documents confirmed that he had openly denounced  Adolf Hitler in the British and American press before attempting to enlist.  William wrote a letter to President Franklin D.

 Roosevelt requesting permission,  approved by Hoover, whom he personally assigned. Watch our Roosevelt video series.Hoover, who personally signed it. Watch our Roosevelt video series. Because he was a British subject, an Allied country and not a German, although he was Hitler’s nephew,  FDR personally agreed, and once William joined the Navy and was sent,  the threat posed to him by the SS ended.

 FDR and other members of the military and  intelligence knew that if the Nazis found out Hitler’s nephew was fighting against them, it was going to hurt and FDR was happy to rub salt in the wound.  It didn’t hurt that he considered Adolf Hitler a monstrous figure.  After being cleared from the FBI, the Office of Naval Intelligence, and the White House, the newly minted William Patrick Stewart Houston finally entered the U.S. Navy in 1944, becoming a pharmacist. Basically, a body mantle.

 He served on a hospital ship in the Pacific  and achieved top marks for competence and conduct, then was promoted. He had adopted his  new life and his new identity, and was proud to be a new American.  After being discharged in 1946 after being wounded in combat, he and his wife  American, Phyllis John Jack, married in 1947 and settled so deeply into the life of  suburb that you could practically smell the fresh asphalt.

 He chose Pashog, then Brookhaven,  on Long Island, in a working-class neighborhood on the rise, close enough to New York  for business, but far enough away that no one asks awkward questions. After the war, William killed himself  a bank, no memory, no contract for the book “I grew up as Hitler” and no  talk show circuit where he could have made millions.

 He founded a small clinical laboratory  very successful company called Brookhaven Laboratories. The company managed corporate and individual contracts  and medical applications for doctors’ offices and hospitals, as well as medico-legal work  for police, military and federal agencies, including oncology work for  cancer detection. William and his wife kept a low profile.

 His neighbors never knew who he was, and they had four sons, Alexander,  Lewis, Howard and Brian, all born between the late 1940s and early 1960s.  They were an average American family. The boys grew up as children of  ordinary suburb, attending public schools and working in jobs  premises. The sons all knew their bloodlines, and in the Houston household there was one cardinal rule.

 We never talk about Germany.  The sons later admitted that they had reached a tacit mutual agreement  that none of them would have children  because they didn’t even want Hitler’s name to surface in genetic anecdotes.  And they kept that promise. They became  elderly men without heirs. Hitler’s bloodline will die in them.

 William Patrick lived long enough  long to see the world transform his uncle into a symbol of warning rather than a  menacing shadow. And he lived long enough to make sure his own family didn’t bear  never the burden that his mother unintentionally imposed on him at birth. The testimonies of the very rare people who  have known him say so.

 He believed that Adolf Hitler was mentally unstable long before the world  doesn’t notice it. He described him as cruel, paranoid, insecure and greedy for  recognition. He believed that Adolf Hitler had no real affection for family,  just cold political instincts and an inflated ego.

 William told his friends that when he met Adolf in his youth, he felt like he was meeting someone who  was apart rather than a human being. When he learned about the Holocaust,  he was horrified, but he said he wasn’t surprised.  William Patrick Stewart Houston died on July 14, 1987, at the age of 76, of a heart attack.  He is buried on Long Island in a modest cemetery, with a modest headstone, without fanfare.

 The nephew of one of history’s most infamous figures has been laid to rest as yet another American citizen who served his adopted nation.