Meanwhile, William’s half-brother, Heinz, became a German officer stationed on the Russian front. The two Hitler brothers would soon be on opposing sides. His money dwindling, he made plans to join the United States Navy. No one was interested in anything a Hitler had to say. His plans to capitalize on the lecture circuit were quickly coming to an end. During the last air campaign over England in 1942, the home William shared with his mother in Liverpool was completely destroyed. It was fortunate William had gone to America. A year later, in 1940, the Battle of Britain began when the German Air force, the Luftwaffe, began hammering London in a relentless bombing campaign intended to bring the British to their knees. While William traveled the United States on the lecture circuit. But, as his generals were quick to point out, he had more important matters to attend, the conquest of Europe. The dictator had one relative who was committed to a mental asylum, another who committed suicide, another who was described as “feeble-minded,” and another who was mentally challenged.ĭuring his regime, Hitler had many who were diagnosed with such disorders exterminated deeming them as “unfit for German society.”īack in Germany, Hitler was enraged by reports of his nephew’s revelations. He went on to disclose the fact that mental illness and mental retardation ran in Hitler’s family. He discussed his uncle’s ideology in length of which he was critical. In 1939, William and his mother went to the United States on a lecture tour where he made a few lectures in which he vehemently criticized his uncle and further exposed his anti-Semitism. Returning to London he wrote an article for Look magazine titled “Why I Hate My Uncle.” Fearing a trap, William panicked and fled Germany and then tried to blackmail Hitler with threats to air the dictator’s dirty family secrets to the press. In 1938, Hitler asked William to relinquish his British citizenship in exchange for a high-ranking job. Among the rumors would have been his father’s bigamous marriage. Dissatisfied, William persisted in asking his uncle for a better job, and there were rumors he might sell embarrassing stories about the family to the press if he did not receive one. Later, William worked at the Opel car factory and then as a car salesman. William wanted to benefit from his uncle’s influence in Nazi Germany. When Adolf read the articles he made arrangements to have his nephew and former sister-in-law flown to Germany for a meeting. He expressed a desire to meet his uncle and learn more of his family. William was delighted when he heard his uncle Adolf had rose to power in Germany and hoped his uncle would be willing to help him and his mother by giving him a high paying job in the German Government.įollowing Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, William gave a few interviews to English newspapers in which he discussed his father, whom he couldn’t remember, and his uncle and half-brother, whom he had never met. They subsided mostly from public assistance. When William was in his early 20s, he and his mother had experienced hardships. Alois remarried in 1916 and had another son named Heinz. Alois abandoned his family in 1914 and returned to Germany where he married again bigamously. Alois had gone to England in 1910 where he married an English woman and had a son named William Patrick Hitler who was born in 1911. The threats brought the two Hitlers to conflict and compelled William Patrick Hitler to commit irrational acts.Īlois Hitler was Adolf Hitler’s half-brother. In the 1930s, German dictator Adolf Hitler found himself in the position of being extorted by his nephew over some dirty family secrets that threatened to bring down Der Fuhrer’s regime.
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