About William Patrick Hitler
William Patrick Stuart-Houston (born William Patrick Hitler; 12 March 1911 – 14 July 1987) was a British-American entrepreneur and the half-nephew of Adolf Hitler. Born and raised in the Toxteth area of Liverpool to Adolf's half-brother Alois Hitler Jr. and his Irish wife Bridget Dowling, he later relocated to Germany in the 1930s to find work with the help of his half-uncle until he got into a fight with him and later returned to London. He later immigrated to the United States, where he received American citizenship, in addition to his British citizenship, and ended up serving in the United States Navy against his half-uncle and Nazi Germany during World War II, changing his surname after the war. == Biography == === Early life === Stuart-Houston was born William Patrick Hitler in the Toxteth area of Liverpool, England, on 12 March 1911 to an Austrian born father Alois Hitler Jr. and his Irish wife Bridget Dowling. His father was the older half-brother of Adolf Hitler. The couple met in Dublin when Alois was living there during 1909 and was working as a kitchen porter at Dublin's Shelbourne Hotel; they married in London's Marylebone district in 1910 and relocated to Liverpool. The family lived in a flat at 102 Upper Stanhope Street, which was later destroyed during the last German air raid of the Liverpool Blitz on 10 January 1942. Dowling wrote a manuscript titled My Brother-in-Law Adolf, in which she claimed that Adolf had lived in Liverpool with her from November 1912 to April 1913 to avoid conscription in Austria.
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