Adolf Hitler had an older half-brother, Alois, who was a bit of a ne'er do well and a wastrel and who had already been in prison twice for theft, before he went to Dublin, Ireland via Paris around 1909 where he worked in the Shelbourne Hotel as a waiter. There he met an Irish girl, Briget (or Brigid – the spelling varies!) Dowling and the two of them eloped to Liverpool, England where they married.
Her family were most upset by this marriage and were not reconciled to her until, in 1911 William Dowling, Brigid's father, attended the christening of his grandson, William Patrick Hitler in Liverpool.
At this time the Hitler family were living at 102 Upper Stanhope Street in Toxteth, a Liverpool suburb.
In the 1930s young William Patrick Hitler became a socialite and decided to trade on the glamour of his surname. He moved to Germany in the hopes that his connection to Uncle Adolf would guarantee him an easy ride in the Third Reich.
He bummed around Berlin and the Führer was not impressed.
In early 1939 William Patrick and his mother, under the aegis of William Randolph Hearst left England and went to the United States on a lecture tour where he had audiences of up to 1,500 a night.
After War between Germany and England broke out the two decided to remain in the United States.
In 1944 American moviegoers were startled to see flash on the screen. "Hitler joins US Navy". It was true, but it was William Patrick they were talking about.
Almost unbelievably, the man who signed William Patrick into the US navy carried the surname Hess.
After the war, William, having become a phlebotomist moved to Long Island where he set up a blood analysis laboratory.
In 1947 he married Phyllis whom he had first met in Germany before the war. The two had four sons. Howard, the most out going of them was killed in a car crash in the 1980s. The other three, who are in their late 30s to early 50s, are reported to have taken a pact that they will have no children so that the Hitler blood line will die with them.
Two of them work in their own landscape gardening business in Long Island. The other brother, Alexander Adolf, is a social worker.
On the Channel 5 TV program Hitler's living relatives Alex was reported as saying that his father was an Englishman, he is an American and that while he has been to Germany several times as a tourist but he has no real interest in that country.
Also TV program: Channel 5's "Hitler's Living Relatives" (UK)
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