William Patrick Stuart-Houston
| William Patrick Stuart-Houston | |
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William Patrick Hitler as member of the U.S. Navy between 1944 and 1947
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| Birth name | William Patrick Hitler |
| Nickname(s) | Willy |
| Born |
12 March 1911 Toxteth Park, Lancashire, England |
| Died | 14 July 1987 (aged 76) Patchogue, New York, U.S. |
| Buried at | Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Coram, New York |
| Allegiance |
 United States of America
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| Service/branch |
 United States Navy
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| Years of service | 1944–1947 |
| Battles/wars | World War II |
| Awards |
Purple Heart World War II Victory Medal |
| Relations |
Adolf Hitler (uncle) Alois Hitler, Jr. and Bridget Dowling (parents) Phyllis Jean-Jacques (wife) |
William Patrick "Willy" Stuart-Houston (né Hitler; 12 March 1911 – 14 July 1987) was a nephew of Adolf Hitler. Born to Adolf's brother, Alois Hitler, Jr. and his first wife, Bridget Dowling, in Liverpool, England, William Hitler later moved to Germany, but subsequently emigrated to the United States where he served in the U.S. Navy in World War II.
William Patrick Hitler was born in the Toxteth Park district of Liverpool, the son of Alois Hitler, Jr. and Irish-born Bridget Dowling. The couple had met in Dublin when Alois was living there in 1909; they married in Marylebone in London and moved back north to Liverpool where William was born in 1911.
The family lived in a flat at 102 Upper Stanhope Street, which was destroyed in the last German air raid of the Liverpool Blitz on 10 January 1942. Dowling wrote a manuscript called My Brother-in-Law Adolf, in which she says Alois Hitler moved to Liverpool with her, remaining from November 1912 to April 1913, in order to dodge conscription in Austria.
In 1914, Alois left Bridget and their son for a gambling tour of Europe. He later returned to Germany. Unable to reconnect with them due to the outbreak of World War I, Alois abandoned the family, leaving William to be brought up by his mother. He remarried bigamously, but in the mid-1920s he wrote to Bridget asking her to send William to Germany's Weimar Republic for a visit. She finally agreed in 1929, when William was 18. Alois had had another son, Heinz Hitler, by his German wife. Heinz, in contrast to William, became a committed Nazi and in 1942 died in Soviet captivity.
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