Oct. 13, 2025

The Audacity of that Kid: William Patrick Hitler

The Audacity of that Kid: William Patrick Hitler
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Ever wondered what it takes to outrun a last name that shaped world history? We dive into the strange, complicated life of William Patrick Hitler—born in Liverpool, raised by an Irish mother, and briefly swept into the social whirl of 1930s Berlin before slamming into the hard edge of his uncle’s demands. He chased opportunity in the Third Reich, wrote about the Nazi rise for attention, then faced an ultimatum from Adolf: renounce British citizenship or be cut off. William chose the exit, fled Germany, and published “Why I Hate My Uncle,” a sensational turning point that set him on a path across the Atlantic.

Once in the United States, he fought for the chance to do more than talk. After a direct appeal to FDR and an FBI review, William joined the U.S. Navy as a hospital corpsman, served with distinction, and earned a Purple Heart. From there, he reinvented himself as William Patrick Stuart-Houston, became a citizen, and built a quiet life on Long Island running a medical lab from his home. No press tours, no postwar victory laps—just a deliberate fade into normalcy. Along the way, we explore the stark contrast with his half-brother Heinz, an SS officer who died in Soviet captivity, and the private choice of William’s sons to let their branch of the family line end.

This is a story about identity, accountability, and the uneasy space between opportunism and redemption. We unpack the myths—like Bridget’s fabricated memoir—and the moments that mattered: the Daily Express stunt, the failed ultimatum, the Look magazine broadside, and the oath at a Navy recruiting station in 1944. If you’re fascinated by World War II history, family legacy, and how a person can rewrite their narrative, this one will stick with you.

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00:00 - Burgers, Beers, and Banter

04:29 - Setting Up Today’s Topic

05:18 - Meet William Patrick Hitler

09:30 - Early Life, Lies, and Liverpool

14:45 - Chasing Clout in Nazi Germany

20:05 - Falling Out with Uncle Adolf

23:05 - The Ultimatum and the Escape

26:20 - Why I Hate My Uncle

28:50 - Crossing the Atlantic for a New Start

31:00 - Fighting the Axis, Name and All

36:10 - Navy Service and a Purple Heart

39:20 - Reinventing as Stuart-Houston

43:10 - A Quiet American Life

47:00 - Family Choices and Ending a Bloodline

50:30 - The Other Nephew: Heinz Hitler

54:20 - Final Sips and Sign-Off

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Oh hey there.

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Oh hey there.

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I'm Kate.

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I'm Bradley.

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And this is the smoothest we've ever been.

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I mean, this is history buffoons.

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One way to derail it after saying those words, but all right.

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Um, so um I I have a a new beer.

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Um I'm not gonna lie, I've had a couple already.

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We we usually when we come up to your house to record, we have a favorite place that we like to go get some burgers.

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We may consume some beers while having said burgers.

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We may, we may.

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Up in the air.

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Um investigations out there, but um Kate is what you would.

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I won't want to call you a lightweight.

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No, no, but no, I've been training.

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We've been doing this for a year.

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I mean, but uh you're you're feeling you're feeling good.

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I'm feeling pretty good right now.

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Oh uh I I feel fine.

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Thanks for asking.

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But um, just kidding.

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I should be feeling pretty good after the beers I have, they're 7.8.

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So okay, so we got new Belgium.

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We did, right?

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Um, so I got a grape fizz ale.

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And you're hoping it's like Thunder Punch.

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I'm hoping it's like my carnita brusca.

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Yeah, because that it would be obviously nothing will replace that, but it would be nice if you had something that you could have similar here at least.

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Yes.

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Until we can hopefully import some more back from.

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I'm excited, but in case I don't like it, I have an open coupers sitting right here.

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All right, I have a uh Liquid Paradise IPA from Voodoo Ranger, which is of course New Belgium as well.

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Um shout out to Al.

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This is one of Al's brands that he he represents.

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Uh so we're supporting the supporting uh my buddy Al.

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So cheers.

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Cheers.

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Oh dear.

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Well, that's weird.

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Is it?

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It's definitely not as sweet.

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The grape is is definitely there.

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The kiz is definitely there, but so is the ale.

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Oh, is it?

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Okay.

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Well, I suppose that is the one major difference between um because it's like a sour, right?

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I think it's more considered a sour.

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That's at least that would be my guess.

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I it's been a minute since we had those already, but I don't hate it.

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But not something you would have on a regular basis.

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Give me give me a couple drinks and maybe well let's let's get through at least one can before we decide.

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What do you like about yours?

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Uh it's got a nice, nice flavor to it.

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It's an IPA, of course, and um it's not like overly juicy, fruity, but it's got a nice uh lack of a better way to say it, sweetness to it.

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Good.

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Um no, Voodoo Ranger's pretty solid.

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They their flagship beer used to be um fat tire, which is an amber ale.

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Yeah, amber ale.

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And before I crossed over to the Mississippi, like our side of the Mississippi, I should say, I remember going to Colorado because it's from Fort Collins, and my brothers would bring it back with them.

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Not anymore because it's everywhere, and now that it's everywhere, it's kind of like it still has its place.

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It lost its luster.

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Yeah.

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Um, so it still sells a good amount from what I understand, but um their voodoo ranger line is fucking awesome.

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We've had a couple of these on the at least one for sure.

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Maybe a couple on the podcast before, but no, it's really good.

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Good.

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I enjoy it.

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It's got a little rubber ducky on it.

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Rubber ducky, you're the one.

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All right, you make bath time lots of fun.

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Rubber ducky, I'm awfully fond of you.

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Is that the words?

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I don't know.

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But doesn't it sound like I belong in the club?

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The rubber ducky club with some jazz music behind.

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Rubber ducky, you're no one.

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This podcast is getting derailed.

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It's so much fun.

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Okay.

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What do you got for me today?

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Um, hopefully something that's less um depressing.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Sure, sure.

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You don't sound confident.

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Well, I don't think it'll make you as pissed off as last time.

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Well, again, I apologize that I got so pissed off.

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We're talking about the Martin Luther King Jr.

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copyright issues.

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He was not happy about that.

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No, it's just I'm not gonna get into it again because listen to the episode if you want to hear me get all pissed off at life, I guess, but um I hope not because you know I'm usually a pretty happy dude.

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And me getting pissed off is not great.

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My anger, my anger issues and my youth pop out.

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So, anyways, what do you got for me?

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We are gonna talk about a Hitler.

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A Hitler, like a descendant of Hitler?

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Mm-hmm.

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Yeah, cool.

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Yeah, because he is not worth it, but we'll talk about people around him.

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Okay.

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Shout out to uh Trottle Young.

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What episode was Trottle Young?

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Oh Trottle Young um was an episode that we did about Hitler's secretary.

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She was in his secretary.

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Yeah, she was in the bunker with him.

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Yeah.

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And um, that episode was That's pretty that was quite a few ago.

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Yeah, shoot.

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I think that was in December we released that.

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So that's probably gotta be around 20 something.

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Dang.

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Excuse me.

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Look at us go.

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Well, and we're on 63 right now, so that's wild.

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It was it's called Plan B, Trottle Young.

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It was um uploaded December 10th, if you're interested in Trottle Young.

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She was an interesting story.

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She was an interesting story, and um sad that you know it kind of lingered with her her entire life, which is understandable, but yeah, you know, kind of hard to shake that, but you know.

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So we are gonna talk about William Patrick Hitler.

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Okay, he was born on March 12th, 1911 in Liverpool, England, okay, to Alos Hitler Jr.

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and Bridget Dowling.

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Bridget Dowling, okay.

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So his father, Alo's Al Alo, it's spelled A-L-O-I-S, like A-Lois.

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Alos Jr.

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uh uh a way to say that, and I am not a linguist by any stretch.

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So William's father, Aloes Jr., was the older half-brother of Adolf Hitler.

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So they shared the same father.

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Oh, okay.

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Alos Hitler Sr.

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and they had different mothers.

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Gotcha.

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Okay, so it was the mother that was evil.

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Anyways.

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So Alos Jr.

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had met Bridget, who was an Irish woman from Dublin at a horse show in 1909.

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Oh, nice.

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And he presented himself as like a a wealthy um hotel owner.

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Um, and he impressed 17-year-old Bridget um with his suave manners, if you will.

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So was he actually a hotel owner?

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He was a waiter.

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Oh, so he was a shyster.

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He was a waiter at Dublin's Shelburne Hotel at the time.

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And despite her family's disapproval, Bridget ended up eloping with Alos to London.

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And they married on June 3rd, 1910.

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Wow.

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And so a year later, the baby hitler that we're talking about came out.

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No, so we're talking about William.

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Yeah, so a year later he was born.

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You said he was born in 1911, didn't you?

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Oh, yes, sorry.

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I thought you said something about the evil baby came out.

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No.

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Oh, where did I come up with that?

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I said that Ron Evil Baby.

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I said apparently the mother was evil, and then I said the little baby Hitler came out.

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And those were like minutes apart.

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So I don't know how you combined.

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I don't know either.

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I was like, no, we're talking about William.

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I know.

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Oh my word.

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Okay, so shortly after the couple settled settled in Liverpool, he was born in 1911.

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Okay.

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So like I said.

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So Aloes Jr.

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attempted to run various businesses, including a restaurant, a boarding house, and a hotel.

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But all these ventures kind of failed a little bit, and he kind of left the family in poverty, essentially.

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So I'm sorry, what's her name?

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Bridget?

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Yeah.

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That he married, correct?

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Yes.

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When she eloped with this guy, it's like, so where's your hotels?

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Right?

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I mean, yeah.

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Um, well, um, actually, I might have been to truth.

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I work at a hotel.

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I might not own said hotel.

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I mean, what the fuck?

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Kind of, but yeah, you know what?

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You got kind eyes.

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I'm gonna marry you.

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However, Elos left Bridget and young William in 1914.

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Oh.

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Yeah, because he's a fun guy.

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He's a mushroom?

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He went to Germany.

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Weird.

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Deserting his family in England.

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Okay.

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During World War One, Alos Jr.

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entered a bigamous second marriage in Germany and started a new family there.

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So he never actually got divorced?

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No.

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Huh.

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He just up and said, Sayonara.

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Bye.

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Bye.

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Wow.

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Okay.

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Anyways.

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Um, so he married a German woman named Hedwig Heidemann in 1916.

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Now this this is the Alice.

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Alice Jr., the husband, yeah, the husband who bigamously married Hedwig.

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Hedwig, okay.

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And they had another son named Heinrich or Heinz Hitler in 1920.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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So Alice Jr.

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was later prosecuted in Germany for bigamy, but uh avoided jail because Bridget, he like wrote to Bridget, and Bridget stated that they had formally separated and he was allowed to marry.

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Oh like she But I mean, fine.

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Well, right.

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Yeah.

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Which she's like good riddance because clearly he abandoned them anyway, so fuck that guy.

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Yeah, so she's probably gonna like I'll save you from jail, go live your life.

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But even though you're separated, if you're not divorced, you can't technically get married, though, right?

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This is back in the early 1900s, so it might be different back then.

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It could be very different, obviously, but I mean, obviously, off of today's standards, you can't do that.

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And maybe there's a difference between England and Germany at the time.

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I don't know.

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I'm just saying.

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So little young um William Patrick grew up with his father largely absent, and he was raised by um his mother in Ireland.

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Okay.

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Oh, so they went back to Ireland.

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They did, but they they lived in Liverpool for the majority of his life.

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His early life.

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Gotcha.

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He spent his childhood there living with his mother.

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Um, the flat that they lived in would be destroyed eventually in a German bombing raid during the Liverpool Blitz on January 10th, 1942.

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Damn.

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So little is recorded about William's um early life in Liverpool beyond like his father, essentially.

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Yeah.

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Um, contemporary accounts suggest that they lived humble circumstances.

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Um, Bridget and William were described as poor, um, as Alo's Jr.'s ventures, like the hotel and the in the uh restaurant kind of left them in bankruptcy.

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So, and what did Bridget do?

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What was she she was a waitress, you said or no?

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No, um she what did I say she was?

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Um Irish.

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Yes.

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Pretty much she was just an Irish woman.

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They met at a horse show.

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That's what that would be.

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I don't think he were he was the waiter.

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Yeah, he was the waiter at a hotel.

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Right, right, right.

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Wow.

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That was beautiful.

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That was magical.

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Yeah.

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Do that again sometime.

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Jesus.

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So William likely attended local schools and came of age in an environment where at the time the last name Hitler carried no infamy, no, yeah, no weight whatsoever.

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Yeah, no, that makes sense though.

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Obviously, this would change in the 1930s.

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Well, you know, something happened.

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So, an anecdote from William's early childhood um involves the claim that Adolf Hitler visited Liverpool during during 1912-1913.

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Oh, really?

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And stayed with Bridget and Alice Jr.

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when he was still there.

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Oh.

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And this is according to a memoir that Bridget wrote eventually.

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Okay.

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Called Um My Brother-in-law Adolph.

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Oh, jeez.

00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:29.840
And apparently this was fabricated as Adolf wasn't even in the area.

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He was like in Austria during that time.

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Like he literally had an alibi.

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So we're not sure why she would write that, just to give herself some clout.

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I'm not sure.

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I almost kind of want to name this Adolf's Alibi.

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Oh man, that's fucking weird.

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Wow.

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Okay, so um Bridget claimed that she had like cozy kitchen conversations with him.

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And none of this happened.

00:14:02.799 --> 00:14:03.039
No.

00:14:03.279 --> 00:14:13.200
So was she just trying to make some money off of obviously uh the relation technically, which she didn't have, only her son kind of did.

00:14:13.519 --> 00:14:19.440
She she even says that she was the one to persuade Adolf to get the mustache that he had.

00:14:19.759 --> 00:14:20.000
Yeah.

00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:21.919
Do you see this guy, Charlie Chaplin?

00:14:22.080 --> 00:14:22.720
It's really cool.

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Check it out.

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Okay, so um William Patrick's childhood lack likely passed without any kind of contact with his uncle, anything like that.

00:14:34.799 --> 00:14:38.559
Like that was for whatever reason, Bridget kind of fabricated all that.

00:14:38.960 --> 00:14:47.759
So if they're if him and okay, so as a younger adult, William Patrick Hitler um decided to go to Germany.

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Right.

00:14:48.559 --> 00:14:53.279
So at the time he it was 1929 and he was about 18 years old.

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He wanted to kind of profit off of his surname.

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So isn't it sad that he wanted to profit off that?

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I mean, I get it, but Jesus.

00:15:02.559 --> 00:15:04.720
I mean, but I mean he grew up poor.

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Yeah, and his mom fucking wrote a book or memoir that that is falsified completely because you know, Adolf's alibi.

00:15:12.559 --> 00:15:13.840
It's coming back.

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Adolf had an alibi.

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So William actually reconnected with his estranged father, Elos Jr.

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Did he really?

00:15:23.919 --> 00:15:31.360
He was living in German Germany at the time, and the two of them attended one of Hitler's um mass Nazi rallies.

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Oh shit.

00:15:32.879 --> 00:15:39.120
And at this rally, William saw his uncle from a distance, who was then kind the rising leader of the Nazi Party.

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He wasn't quite there yet, but yeah, he was getting making a name for himself.

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Yep.

00:15:43.440 --> 00:15:47.679
So the following year in 1930, William visited Germany again.

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This time, Adolf Hitler agreed to meet his nephew in person.

00:15:52.960 --> 00:15:53.200
Really?

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They did not before.

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Oh no, for sure.

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Hitler signed an autograph, photograph of him during this period.

00:16:01.759 --> 00:16:05.840
Kind of like in uh Raider or uh The Last Crusade, Indiana Jones.

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I know you're not a huge Indiana Jones person.

00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:09.679
It's not that I'm not a No, you just haven't seen it.

00:16:09.919 --> 00:16:10.480
I just haven't seen it.

00:16:10.559 --> 00:16:11.840
Yeah, no, I totally get it.

00:16:12.080 --> 00:16:21.039
But where uh Indy and his dad go to retrieve the the Grail Diary and he bumps into aid off and he signs the Grail Diary.

00:16:21.919 --> 00:16:23.039
I'll have to show it to you.

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Okay.

00:16:23.600 --> 00:16:24.320
It's pretty funny.

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Is that the third one?

00:16:25.679 --> 00:16:26.639
Yeah, it's the best one.

00:16:26.879 --> 00:16:28.799
Oh, is that with um Sean Connery?

00:16:29.039 --> 00:16:35.279
Yeah, Raiders of the Lost Ark is amazing, but I my favorite of all the Indiana Jones is Last Crusade.

00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:37.919
It's so good, especially because it's Sean Connery.

00:16:38.159 --> 00:16:38.399
Yeah.

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But um, it's such a good movie.

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Anyways.

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So initially William was charmed by the access to his uncle and the excitement of the Nazi like social scene.

00:16:50.240 --> 00:16:50.559
Yep.

00:16:50.720 --> 00:16:53.039
Um, William's early enthusiasm, excuse me.

00:16:53.279 --> 00:16:54.559
Enthusiastic me too.

00:16:56.159 --> 00:17:03.360
His early enthusiasm manifested in like a series of articles that he wrote um when returning to England in 31.

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Sure.

00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:17.279
So sensing this public curiosity about Adolf Hitler, who was quickly gaining notoriety, yeah, William published um personal pieces describing his uncle and the Nazi movement.

00:17:17.519 --> 00:17:17.680
Okay.

00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:19.839
So he was trying to get clout for himself.

00:17:20.079 --> 00:17:22.640
And he did this back in England.

00:17:23.200 --> 00:17:23.440
Okay.

00:17:23.920 --> 00:17:27.599
So he'd go visit Germany and come back to because his mother is still living in England.

00:17:27.759 --> 00:17:28.880
Of course, yeah.

00:17:29.200 --> 00:17:38.559
So the exact content of these articles aren't really remembered, but Adolf Hitler took notice and offense with them.

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Oh.

00:17:39.440 --> 00:17:45.279
So, according to William's own account, Hitler dis disliked how he was portrayed in these stories.

00:17:45.599 --> 00:17:45.920
Okay.

00:17:46.240 --> 00:17:50.799
He summoned William to Berlin and ordered him to retract what had been written.

00:17:51.039 --> 00:17:51.599
Oh shit.

00:17:51.920 --> 00:17:52.559
Yeah.

00:17:52.880 --> 00:18:02.079
So this incident made it really clear that William's access to his uncle came with strict expectations of loyalty and discretion.

00:18:02.319 --> 00:18:09.519
I mean, look at the Nazi Party and what Adolf did, so yeah, I can understand why you'd be like, no, no, no.

00:18:09.759 --> 00:18:12.720
You you you basically write what I tell you to write, kind of thing.

00:18:13.039 --> 00:18:13.359
Yeah.

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Because he's trying to build this power up at this time, and that could be detrimental to it.

00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:20.559
Yes.

00:18:20.720 --> 00:18:22.480
In a way, depending on who sees it or whatnot.

00:18:22.799 --> 00:18:23.359
Right, right.

00:18:23.599 --> 00:18:31.039
Obviously, no internet back then, of course, so you who knows what reach it had, but certainly in England, I mean, people saw that.

00:18:31.119 --> 00:18:32.160
So yeah, absolutely.

00:18:32.480 --> 00:18:32.799
Interesting.

00:18:33.119 --> 00:18:36.799
So the publicity from Williams' writings had another consequence.

00:18:36.960 --> 00:18:41.119
It exposed his connection to Hitler to a more broad audience.

00:18:41.359 --> 00:18:41.759
Right.

00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:52.400
So in Britain, where the public opinion of the Nazis were turning negative then in the 1930s, um, the surname Hitler started to become a liability.

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Yep.

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So by 1932, um, William found himself in London with where he was not able to keep a job.

00:19:05.599 --> 00:19:06.160
Because of his name.

00:19:06.799 --> 00:19:07.759
Because of his last name.

00:19:08.079 --> 00:19:09.039
That's wild, isn't it?

00:19:09.759 --> 00:19:10.240
Crazy.

00:19:10.559 --> 00:19:18.240
He was pretty much facing a lot of limited prospects in England, and William decided to try his luck back in Germany.

00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:28.480
He is a growing young lad with this this awful last name, and he he can't find work.

00:19:28.640 --> 00:19:32.880
He can't find he's he's basically kick taking care of his mother at this point.

00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:33.599
Right.

00:19:33.920 --> 00:19:38.160
So he's not earning anything just because of his last name.

00:19:38.480 --> 00:19:41.039
So he moved to Berlin in 1933.

00:19:41.200 --> 00:19:41.359
Okay.

00:19:41.680 --> 00:19:44.960
Just as Adolf Hitler was appointed ch Chancellor.

00:19:45.119 --> 00:19:45.279
Yeah.

00:19:45.519 --> 00:19:46.559
Holmes said Chancellor.

00:19:46.880 --> 00:19:47.279
Chancellor.

00:19:47.599 --> 00:19:48.000
Chancellor.

00:19:48.240 --> 00:19:49.759
Have you seen the Chancellor?

00:19:50.000 --> 00:19:51.359
I think he's over there.

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Nine.

00:19:52.720 --> 00:19:57.359
And of course, William thought that maybe his uncle could help him build a career.

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Yeah.

00:19:58.000 --> 00:19:58.480
Yes.

00:19:58.799 --> 00:20:03.359
So initially, Adolf Hitler did arrange employment for William.

00:20:03.519 --> 00:20:03.839
Oh.

00:20:04.160 --> 00:20:06.240
Um, but they were modest positions.

00:20:06.480 --> 00:20:10.079
Um, yeah, it's not like, hey man, can you go run my army?

00:20:10.400 --> 00:20:10.640
Right.

00:20:10.799 --> 00:20:11.440
Right, right, right.

00:20:11.759 --> 00:20:11.839
Right.

00:20:12.079 --> 00:20:12.640
Yeah, no shit.

00:20:12.799 --> 00:20:14.079
It's gonna definitely be modest.

00:20:14.480 --> 00:20:14.720
Yeah.

00:20:14.799 --> 00:20:20.559
So through Hitler's influence, William obtained a job as a clerk at a bank in Berlin.

00:20:20.799 --> 00:20:21.119
Okay.

00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:24.799
And he held this post for much of the 1930s.

00:20:25.200 --> 00:20:36.799
Though not high ranking, the job did provide provide like a comfortable living situation, and it was a direct result of Hitler's patronage, I guess.

00:20:37.039 --> 00:20:37.759
Well, his connection.

00:20:37.839 --> 00:20:38.000
Yeah.

00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:38.720
His connection.

00:20:38.960 --> 00:20:41.920
So did he have to send money back to mommy Bridget?

00:20:42.240 --> 00:20:45.039
I I didn't read anything that he did, but I'm sure.

00:20:45.519 --> 00:20:51.119
I mean, if he was kind of helping support her, yeah, she didn't she didn't have the Hitler name then, right?

00:20:51.279 --> 00:20:56.400
She didn't take that when she got married to you know, she's always been referred to as Bridget Dowling.

00:20:56.720 --> 00:20:58.240
Okay, then maybe not.

00:20:58.559 --> 00:20:59.839
Or went back, maybe.

00:21:00.079 --> 00:21:00.640
Maybe?

00:21:00.799 --> 00:21:01.519
I don't know.

00:21:01.759 --> 00:21:02.319
Interesting.

00:21:02.559 --> 00:21:06.400
I didn't come across that, but yeah, she's always been known as Bridget Dowling.

00:21:06.559 --> 00:21:06.720
Okay.

00:21:06.960 --> 00:21:09.200
So yeah, that's an interesting point of view.

00:21:09.440 --> 00:21:13.920
Yeah, because I mean, she obviously would be ostracized too at this time.

00:21:14.720 --> 00:21:18.960
And she literally has no It's it's just weird combination.

00:21:19.200 --> 00:21:19.920
I get it.

00:21:20.160 --> 00:21:24.640
She obviously has no actual connection besides marrying his half brother.

00:21:24.799 --> 00:21:24.960
Yeah.

00:21:25.200 --> 00:21:36.000
Which yes is a connection, but when he vominosed off to Germany again to uh marry Hedwig and whatnot, um I would instantly change my name if she ever did in the first place.

00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:38.640
So either way, anyways, okay.

00:21:38.960 --> 00:21:45.920
So William's last name granted him entry into like the elite social circles of the Third Reich.

00:21:46.160 --> 00:21:46.480
Sure.

00:21:46.799 --> 00:21:48.240
So go ahead.

00:21:48.880 --> 00:21:56.319
So it was Adolf, obviously Hitler, and then there's some family.

00:21:56.720 --> 00:21:59.440
Is that the only Hitler ever?

00:22:01.039 --> 00:22:01.839
Do you think?

00:22:03.119 --> 00:22:06.559
So he had a couple half brothers.

00:22:06.799 --> 00:22:07.119
I get that.

00:22:07.359 --> 00:22:08.000
That's not what I'm saying.

00:22:08.400 --> 00:22:08.880
Heinz.

00:22:09.200 --> 00:22:09.759
Okay, yeah.

00:22:10.079 --> 00:22:12.400
Not family-related half-brothers or not?

00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:13.440
Not that I know of.

00:22:13.599 --> 00:22:16.160
Okay, so that was like a one and done kind of name.

00:22:16.400 --> 00:22:20.960
I read something that the spellings had like evolved.

00:22:21.359 --> 00:22:24.720
So there's like Hitler, like with a D.

00:22:25.039 --> 00:22:25.279
Right.

00:22:25.519 --> 00:22:27.200
H-E-I-D-D-L-E-R.

00:22:27.599 --> 00:22:28.000
Stuff like that.

00:22:28.400 --> 00:22:30.079
And hit Hitter, I don't know.

00:22:30.160 --> 00:22:35.200
There's there was like a couple variations of the last name, but I'm not sure if they're still in use.

00:22:35.519 --> 00:22:40.480
It just reminds me of uh Doc Brown from Back to the Future when he's talking about his family.

00:22:40.640 --> 00:22:43.839
So they're looking in the archives or whatever, looking for him.

00:22:44.000 --> 00:22:46.640
He's like, nah, our name was Von Braun.

00:22:46.799 --> 00:22:49.279
It didn't change it till Brown until whatever year he says.

00:22:49.359 --> 00:22:49.599
Yeah.

00:22:49.759 --> 00:22:52.000
So a lot of people altered their names and stuff.

00:22:52.559 --> 00:22:57.920
And it's like um Mary Clements, um, the the woman who was accused of witchcraft.

00:22:58.079 --> 00:22:58.400
Yes.

00:22:58.640 --> 00:23:01.680
Eventually down the line, Mark Twain.

00:23:01.759 --> 00:23:05.119
Yeah, his original name was Clemens without a T.

00:23:05.359 --> 00:23:05.839
Yep.

00:23:06.079 --> 00:23:09.119
And it's because they dropped the T over the course of yeah.

00:23:09.519 --> 00:23:10.079
Yeah, exactly.

00:23:10.880 --> 00:23:15.440
It's funny how people's names evolve because they altered them in some way for some reason.

00:23:15.759 --> 00:23:16.880
Yeah, one reason or the other.

00:23:17.119 --> 00:23:19.759
Whether bad or or just just to do it, kind of thing.

00:23:19.920 --> 00:23:21.440
So that's kind of funny how that works.

00:23:21.599 --> 00:23:21.920
I don't know.

00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:27.839
I was just obviously I've never done research into how many Hitlers are there that aren't related to Yeah.

00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:29.839
I mean, you would think none now.

00:23:30.079 --> 00:23:30.480
Yeah.

00:23:30.720 --> 00:23:32.319
That would be kind of shitty.

00:23:32.559 --> 00:23:33.599
What's your name?

00:23:33.920 --> 00:23:34.960
Bradley Hitler.

00:23:35.119 --> 00:23:35.680
What?

00:23:36.079 --> 00:23:36.799
Get out.

00:23:36.960 --> 00:23:38.960
Oh my god, I have no relation.

00:23:40.160 --> 00:23:41.119
Relation.

00:23:41.680 --> 00:23:42.720
But you know what I mean?

00:23:42.960 --> 00:23:43.920
Oh, for sure.

00:23:44.240 --> 00:23:46.000
So so, anyways, yeah.

00:23:46.319 --> 00:23:58.640
So during these years, um, William became like a sought-after guest as society dinners and weekends in the countryside, attending by Nazi officials, as he was the Fuhrer's nephew.

00:23:58.799 --> 00:24:02.079
They wanted to meet the Fuhrer's nephew, and he would not shy away from the attention.

00:24:02.480 --> 00:24:04.720
Of course he wouldn't, because he's getting popular from this.

00:24:05.039 --> 00:24:06.480
And he wanted that popularity.

00:24:07.279 --> 00:24:08.960
He wanted a ride.

00:24:09.519 --> 00:24:11.759
I mean, that's why he went to Germany because of his name.

00:24:11.839 --> 00:24:12.160
Yeah.

00:24:12.400 --> 00:24:17.359
But it's funny, like, what do you think he actually would have brought to these social engagements?

00:24:17.599 --> 00:24:25.759
Probably not fucking much, because I don't know, he came from a douchebag, and he's got douchebag relatives.

00:24:26.000 --> 00:24:29.680
Although his mother, from all accounts, like seemed to be like a wonderful woman.

00:24:29.759 --> 00:24:32.240
And besides her fabrication of a memoir.

00:24:32.480 --> 00:24:33.759
That's fair.

00:24:34.720 --> 00:24:35.200
Right?

00:24:35.839 --> 00:24:37.119
I'm not wrong.

00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:44.319
She made shit up, which you know, I mean, yeah, I guess try and make some money off of douchebags.

00:24:44.480 --> 00:24:46.000
Maybe she had a dream and thought it was real.

00:24:46.240 --> 00:24:48.799
He sat at my kitchen table and we talked about.

00:24:49.599 --> 00:24:52.640
No, that was his half-brother that you married, idiot.

00:24:53.759 --> 00:25:00.400
Okay, so by some accounts, William um reveled in the celebrity of his surname.

00:25:00.559 --> 00:25:00.960
Yeah, yeah.

00:25:01.200 --> 00:25:05.519
Um, even imitating Adolf's dress and mannerisms.

00:25:05.920 --> 00:25:09.440
Like he was he was trying to go all out as a Hitler.

00:25:09.759 --> 00:25:11.119
As a Hitler.

00:25:11.839 --> 00:25:12.480
Wow.

00:25:13.359 --> 00:25:18.480
His social exploits extended to romantic um as well.

00:25:18.720 --> 00:25:22.480
Numerous young women were intrigued by the nephew of Hitler.

00:25:22.720 --> 00:25:30.960
Well, yeah, again, fucking money-sucking succubuses, so William's personal charisma was kind of lacking.

00:25:31.200 --> 00:25:32.480
That's the word I was gonna use.

00:25:33.279 --> 00:25:35.839
A little bit disappointed by his conquests.

00:25:36.079 --> 00:25:36.640
Well, yeah.

00:25:37.119 --> 00:25:43.200
But William Patrick was not satisfied with his current situation.

00:25:43.359 --> 00:25:46.559
Like he loved being the center of attention, but he wanted more.

00:25:46.720 --> 00:25:49.599
He was ambitious, he he was also opportunistic.

00:25:50.160 --> 00:25:54.319
So he pressed his uncle for even more prestigious and higher paying positions.

00:25:54.559 --> 00:25:54.880
Okay.

00:25:55.279 --> 00:26:07.680
So after repeatedly asking for more, um, Adolf Hitler uh relented finally and silently found William a new job as a salesman for an automobile company.

00:26:08.000 --> 00:26:08.960
Volkswagen?

00:26:09.119 --> 00:26:10.319
Uh no, Opel.

00:26:10.880 --> 00:26:12.079
Opel automobile.

00:26:12.400 --> 00:26:13.279
Never heard of them.

00:26:13.759 --> 00:26:16.319
It was under partial Nazi control at the time.

00:26:16.559 --> 00:26:19.839
Because you know Volkswagen was basically created for Nazis, right?

00:26:20.720 --> 00:26:21.039
Yeah.

00:26:21.440 --> 00:26:23.519
That's why Volkswagen's like around today.

00:26:23.599 --> 00:26:25.839
I don't know the exact story, but it's something like that.

00:26:27.200 --> 00:26:31.519
There's a car and it's it's fucking weird looking, but it's great at the same time.

00:26:31.920 --> 00:26:36.559
A couple actually show up in the movie Days and Confused, uh, which I love that movie.

00:26:36.799 --> 00:26:40.480
Um but it's literally called the Volkswagen thing.

00:26:41.200 --> 00:26:48.319
And uh it's what it's basically the vehicle that used to drive like SS officers around during the war and shit.

00:26:48.480 --> 00:26:48.640
Yeah.

00:26:48.880 --> 00:26:49.759
It's fucking wild.

00:26:49.920 --> 00:26:50.160
Yeah.

00:26:50.319 --> 00:26:51.759
I got a Volkswagen.

00:26:53.519 --> 00:26:54.960
But I also have an alibi.

00:26:55.359 --> 00:26:56.799
Nazis, am I right?

00:26:59.039 --> 00:27:06.400
Okay, so salesman at an automobile company, it was not quite the influential post that William had wanted.

00:27:06.640 --> 00:27:06.880
No.

00:27:06.960 --> 00:27:08.720
Uh I've never heard of that before.

00:27:08.880 --> 00:27:09.680
O-P-E-L.

00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:11.440
Yeah, I've never heard of that before.

00:27:11.680 --> 00:27:18.240
So Hitler grew increasingly annoyed at his nephew's um persistence and entitlement.

00:27:18.559 --> 00:27:23.599
He's like, dude, I'm trying to eliminate a race and run a country.

00:27:24.000 --> 00:27:25.119
Leave me alone.

00:27:25.839 --> 00:27:31.440
So he was careful not to elevate William too much, fearing charges of favoritism.

00:27:31.519 --> 00:27:33.119
And that's not something that he ever did.

00:27:33.200 --> 00:27:35.039
He never did the nepotism thing.

00:27:35.279 --> 00:27:35.599
No.

00:27:35.839 --> 00:27:41.039
Um, one report Hitler ranted that his relatives would not ride his coattails.

00:27:41.279 --> 00:27:46.400
No one is going to climb on my back when discussing William's ambitions.

00:27:46.559 --> 00:27:46.799
Sure.

00:27:46.880 --> 00:27:48.400
Okay, so he was pretty adamant about that.

00:27:48.559 --> 00:27:49.039
Well, that's good.

00:27:49.119 --> 00:27:51.200
Good good for Adolf to have a stance on something.

00:27:51.519 --> 00:27:53.440
I mean, seriously, what the fuck?

00:27:53.680 --> 00:27:55.519
What the hell is going on right now?

00:27:55.839 --> 00:27:57.359
Oh, the morals of that one.

00:28:01.759 --> 00:28:03.680
The morals of that one.

00:28:05.039 --> 00:28:06.480
Holy shit.

00:28:08.559 --> 00:28:08.880
Oh.

00:28:10.400 --> 00:28:11.680
What a dick.

00:28:12.960 --> 00:28:14.160
He was a dick.

00:28:14.720 --> 00:28:15.519
Oh, anyways.

00:28:16.160 --> 00:28:22.000
All right, so in 1937, the relationship between William and his uncle had soured.

00:28:22.400 --> 00:28:28.000
So that year, William traveled back to Britain and gave an interview to the Daily Express in London.

00:28:28.240 --> 00:28:29.680
Is that still around today?

00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:30.720
I don't know.

00:28:30.960 --> 00:28:31.279
Okay.

00:28:33.359 --> 00:28:37.839
And he styled himself as the only legal descendant of the Hitler family.

00:28:38.079 --> 00:28:39.119
How would he know that?

00:28:39.359 --> 00:28:40.000
He wouldn't.

00:28:40.240 --> 00:28:40.640
Exactly.

00:28:40.880 --> 00:28:46.160
Well, he might have, but there's still Hedwig and Heinz Ketchup.

00:28:46.640 --> 00:28:46.880
Whatever.

00:28:47.039 --> 00:28:47.440
Yeah, yeah.

00:28:47.680 --> 00:28:48.640
And like mustard.

00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:49.680
Come on.

00:28:50.480 --> 00:28:52.400
So um dear.

00:28:53.119 --> 00:28:56.799
He even like mimicked his uncle's poses for the press.

00:28:56.880 --> 00:28:59.759
Like he was like being the whole girl with the mustache.

00:29:00.079 --> 00:29:04.960
I I saw something that did say that he tried to do something of that nature.

00:29:05.119 --> 00:29:05.440
Oh god.

00:29:05.839 --> 00:29:07.119
But I didn't see any pictures.

00:29:07.279 --> 00:29:10.319
His pictures are more like the little tiny squiggly things that come down.

00:29:10.640 --> 00:29:12.400
Like it was penciled in kind of thing.

00:29:12.960 --> 00:29:14.799
Fucking I don't I never understood those.

00:29:14.960 --> 00:29:20.000
I mean, it's obviously not my style, but okay, so it's your own.

00:29:20.319 --> 00:29:24.480
So the public display did not go over well in Germany.

00:29:25.039 --> 00:29:25.599
Weird.

00:29:25.839 --> 00:29:26.319
Weird.

00:29:26.559 --> 00:29:28.079
I am so shocked at this.

00:29:28.319 --> 00:29:37.440
With the war on the horizon, Adolf Hitler decided that his wayward nephew needed to demonstrate absolute loyalty or be cut off.

00:29:37.599 --> 00:29:39.440
So we essentially gave him an ultimatum.

00:29:39.599 --> 00:29:40.880
Oh in 1938.

00:29:41.039 --> 00:29:55.839
Do tell in 1938, yes, Hitler offered William to renounce your British citizenship and become a German citizen in exchange for a high ranking job in the regime.

00:29:56.480 --> 00:29:57.039
Wow.

00:29:57.359 --> 00:29:57.920
Really?

00:29:58.160 --> 00:29:58.480
Okay.

00:30:00.160 --> 00:30:02.559
Was a test of William's allegiance.

00:30:02.720 --> 00:30:03.359
Yeah.

00:30:03.680 --> 00:30:07.599
Sensing a trap because it's a trap.

00:30:07.839 --> 00:30:08.640
Thank you.

00:30:09.119 --> 00:30:12.400
God, we gotta we gotta give a shout out to Admiral Akbar.

00:30:12.640 --> 00:30:16.240
Admiral Akbar here, here, here, Admiral.

00:30:16.799 --> 00:30:21.039
We have we have used his it's a trap line at least three times now, I do believe.

00:30:21.200 --> 00:30:21.519
Yes.

00:30:21.680 --> 00:30:22.720
If not more.

00:30:22.960 --> 00:30:26.000
And he is a fucking hero of the rebellion.

00:30:26.319 --> 00:30:27.680
To Admiral Akbar.

00:30:29.039 --> 00:30:29.839
Anyways.

00:30:30.079 --> 00:30:36.960
So William was apprehensive about being in Germany because he felt like there's gonna be a war coming on.

00:30:37.200 --> 00:30:39.279
Yeah, and I should probably stay away.

00:30:39.599 --> 00:30:46.240
And if William Patrick refused to surrender his British passport, he can't go back.

00:30:46.799 --> 00:30:52.160
Not refuse to, but if he gave up his British, he wouldn't be able to go back.

00:30:52.400 --> 00:30:53.119
Exactly.

00:30:53.519 --> 00:30:56.960
So William's like, nah, I'm not gonna do that.

00:30:57.200 --> 00:30:58.720
So nah.

00:30:59.039 --> 00:30:59.519
Nah.

00:30:59.759 --> 00:31:08.000
So feeling cornered and upset that Hitler was denying him advancement if he didn't renounce his citizenship.

00:31:08.319 --> 00:31:12.559
Maybe you shouldn't have, you know, I don't know, annoyed Unky Hitler.

00:31:12.799 --> 00:31:18.880
Unky William tried to blackmail his uncle's sake.

00:31:19.200 --> 00:31:19.839
It didn't work.

00:31:20.079 --> 00:31:20.480
Dude.

00:31:20.880 --> 00:31:30.319
Late 1938, he wrote a letter to Adolf Hitler hinting that he would expose, quote, unusual family history, end quote, to the press.

00:31:30.559 --> 00:31:32.960
Like dinners at Bridget's house?

00:31:33.119 --> 00:31:35.440
I mean, what does he got on him?

00:31:36.079 --> 00:31:49.359
So specifically, William threatened to publicize the long rumored but unproven story that Hitler's paternal grandfather was actually a Jewish man.

00:31:49.599 --> 00:31:51.200
I thought that was true.

00:31:51.599 --> 00:31:53.759
So it hasn't been proven.

00:31:53.920 --> 00:31:54.480
Oh, okay.

00:31:54.799 --> 00:31:55.599
Yeah, it's just a rumor.

00:31:55.680 --> 00:31:57.039
And he like added to the rumor.

00:31:57.359 --> 00:31:58.880
So that's probably all I ever heard then.

00:31:59.039 --> 00:31:59.200
Yeah.

00:31:59.359 --> 00:32:00.640
Because I heard obviously.

00:32:01.039 --> 00:32:06.319
So realizing that he had crossed a very dangerous line, William fled Germany.

00:32:06.559 --> 00:32:11.759
And he went to in early 1939, just months before the uh World War II began.

00:32:12.079 --> 00:32:12.559
Sure.

00:32:12.960 --> 00:32:19.519
So his gambit for like personal gain had failed and effectively marked his break from Nazi Germany.

00:32:19.680 --> 00:32:20.160
Yeah.

00:32:20.400 --> 00:32:23.279
So he returned to England in 1939.

00:32:23.519 --> 00:32:23.839
Okay.

00:32:24.799 --> 00:32:27.599
He found very little warm welcome.

00:32:28.240 --> 00:32:29.119
Well, I wonder why.

00:32:29.440 --> 00:32:33.359
British authorities and the public were keenly aware of his background.

00:32:33.599 --> 00:32:33.839
Sure.

00:32:34.000 --> 00:32:38.640
And with warm looming, like a man named Hitler in their precious.

00:32:39.359 --> 00:32:42.559
They almost at that point is he a spy?

00:32:42.720 --> 00:32:43.119
Exactly.

00:32:43.599 --> 00:32:45.200
Are they gonna give information up?

00:32:45.279 --> 00:32:49.279
So on because back then you you don't fucking know.

00:32:50.079 --> 00:32:55.599
And no, he just was pretty much ostracized from Unki Hitler.

00:32:55.839 --> 00:33:00.400
And I mean, what an idiot.

00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:01.599
Seriously.

00:33:01.759 --> 00:33:03.359
First of all, what was her name?

00:33:03.519 --> 00:33:04.400
Bridget Dowling?

00:33:04.640 --> 00:33:05.599
Bridget Dowling, yeah.

00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:06.559
I don't know.

00:33:07.279 --> 00:33:10.160
William Patrick Dowling saw has a nice ring to it.

00:33:10.720 --> 00:33:18.480
But they didn't know when when they he was given his name, he they did not know who his uncle was gonna be.

00:33:18.960 --> 00:33:22.960
But do you also know how easy it was to change your I will get to that?

00:33:24.240 --> 00:33:24.319
Okay.

00:33:24.480 --> 00:33:25.119
I won't get that out.

00:33:25.279 --> 00:33:26.160
Sorry, I'm sorry, sorry.

00:33:26.319 --> 00:33:27.839
I really wish you would have brought me three.

00:33:28.240 --> 00:33:29.920
Anyway, you Do you want my cooers?

00:33:30.240 --> 00:33:30.880
It's okay.

00:33:31.039 --> 00:33:32.000
I can't reach it.

00:33:32.079 --> 00:33:34.319
I'm all buckled in here.

00:33:34.640 --> 00:33:36.160
I know you should see our setup.

00:33:36.240 --> 00:33:37.359
It's pretty atrocious.

00:33:37.599 --> 00:33:38.079
It's cozy.

00:33:38.240 --> 00:33:38.640
It's cozy.

00:33:38.799 --> 00:33:39.279
It's cozy.

00:33:40.319 --> 00:33:41.279
So one or the other.

00:33:41.440 --> 00:33:42.160
Tomato tomato.

00:33:42.640 --> 00:33:45.200
William is now seeking redemption.

00:33:45.359 --> 00:33:49.200
Um his and publicly like severized from his uncle.

00:33:49.440 --> 00:33:50.880
Well, I would fucking hope so.

00:33:51.039 --> 00:33:55.359
So he decided to go against Adolf Hitler on the record.

00:33:55.599 --> 00:33:56.240
Good for him.

00:33:56.480 --> 00:34:04.480
In the summer of 1939, he authored an article for American magazine called Look.

00:34:04.799 --> 00:34:05.680
Look, okay.

00:34:05.920 --> 00:34:07.759
On July 4th, 1939.

00:34:08.159 --> 00:34:11.599
That's got titled Why I Hate My Uncle.

00:34:12.079 --> 00:34:12.960
Oh my word.

00:34:13.039 --> 00:34:15.599
Because he wouldn't give me a better job.

00:34:16.480 --> 00:34:17.840
What the hell, man?

00:34:18.159 --> 00:34:24.719
It was a lengthy article, and I will have a picture of one of the spreads um inserted here, but Oh dear.

00:34:25.039 --> 00:34:37.119
William Patrick recounted his personal dealings with Adolf Hitler and denounced the Nazis regime and their tyrical and tyrannical and brutal nature.

00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:37.920
Sure.

00:34:38.239 --> 00:34:41.760
So the very title was old.

00:34:42.559 --> 00:34:45.360
I mean, yeah, I would say so.

00:34:45.679 --> 00:34:54.000
The article caused a sensation, offering readers a rare glimpse into Adolf Hitler's relative's perspective.

00:34:54.320 --> 00:34:54.639
Right.

00:34:54.880 --> 00:34:58.719
Which is funny because his perspective is so fucking probably off.

00:34:58.960 --> 00:34:59.519
Yes.

00:34:59.760 --> 00:35:05.519
And it also firmly established William's position as a critic and not a supporter.

00:35:05.840 --> 00:35:06.719
I suppose, yeah.

00:35:06.960 --> 00:35:08.000
I mean, that makes sense.

00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:15.360
So with the war breaking out in Europe in September of 39, William and his mother Bridget decided it was best to leave England.

00:35:15.679 --> 00:35:16.000
Okay.

00:35:16.400 --> 00:35:19.039
They emigrated to the United States.

00:35:19.280 --> 00:35:19.519
Right.

00:35:19.599 --> 00:35:20.480
I knew that actually.

00:35:20.719 --> 00:35:21.119
You did?

00:35:21.280 --> 00:35:22.159
I did know that, yeah.

00:35:22.239 --> 00:35:23.039
I didn't know his name.

00:35:23.119 --> 00:35:31.920
I couldn't remember his name or anything, but I did know that a descendant, whatever, relative, whatever, came to the states.

00:35:32.320 --> 00:35:33.440
Do you know anything else about it?

00:35:33.679 --> 00:35:34.639
Not really, no.

00:35:35.039 --> 00:35:38.159
He actually um went by the nickname Patty quite a bit.

00:35:38.320 --> 00:35:39.119
P-A-D-D-Y.

00:35:39.599 --> 00:35:40.960
Oh, well, I mean he is Irish.

00:35:41.280 --> 00:35:41.440
Yeah.

00:35:41.679 --> 00:35:43.679
So William Patrick Patty.

00:35:44.559 --> 00:35:49.039
So you might come up to, you know, if you did further research, it might come up as Patty.

00:35:49.360 --> 00:35:54.000
I've told you that I went to Germany with my brother and uh our our friend.

00:35:54.239 --> 00:35:56.079
My our friend's name is Patrick.

00:35:57.039 --> 00:35:58.320
I didn't come up with this.

00:35:58.559 --> 00:35:59.920
My two brothers did.

00:36:00.400 --> 00:36:05.199
But I think a lot of drinks had to be consumed so on.

00:36:05.840 --> 00:36:11.360
Um but they uh his nickname became patio furniture.

00:36:11.679 --> 00:36:13.519
Patio Furniture.

00:36:14.800 --> 00:36:17.679
That was uh a nickname that was uh given to Patrick.

00:36:18.079 --> 00:36:18.559
So that's funny.

00:36:18.800 --> 00:36:20.400
Shout out to Patrick, he's a good man.

00:36:21.679 --> 00:36:22.000
Okay.

00:36:22.800 --> 00:36:28.480
So they traveled um by ocean liner and they arrived in America that was not part of the war as of yet.

00:36:28.880 --> 00:36:32.239
Of course, yeah, because not till December 41.

00:36:32.480 --> 00:36:33.760
What December what?

00:36:34.000 --> 00:36:36.719
Fuck sixth or seventh.

00:36:37.360 --> 00:36:38.000
Which one?

00:36:38.320 --> 00:36:39.440
God damn it.

00:36:41.280 --> 00:36:42.880
I always wanted to say seventh.

00:36:43.199 --> 00:36:44.400
But it's a sixth, isn't it?

00:36:44.719 --> 00:36:47.360
No, you always want to say sixth because it's the seventh.

00:36:49.599 --> 00:36:50.480
It's the seventh.

00:36:50.719 --> 00:36:51.280
It's the seventh.

00:36:51.519 --> 00:36:54.000
I need to remember that because seven is my favorite number.

00:36:54.239 --> 00:37:00.559
Well, and it's funny too because um Jim Morrison was born on December 8th.

00:37:00.960 --> 00:37:02.800
And I swear I'm not making this up.

00:37:03.280 --> 00:37:10.320
My good friend who I've been in a band with, Ryan Mock, uh, is also born on December 8th, so he shares the birthday with Jim Morrison.

00:37:10.719 --> 00:37:12.320
I love the doors growing up.

00:37:12.559 --> 00:37:19.199
I had a poster of Jim Morrison in my fucking room, and I swear to God that his birth date was December 7th.

00:37:19.440 --> 00:37:22.239
And I'm like, oh, Pearl Harbor Day.

00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:24.159
Like, no, it's December 8th.

00:37:24.480 --> 00:37:28.480
Like, wait, this poster told me my whole childhood it was December 7th.

00:37:28.639 --> 00:37:30.559
I swear to God, I swear to God it was wrong.

00:37:30.719 --> 00:37:31.039
Yeah.

00:37:31.280 --> 00:37:36.960
I obviously don't have that poster, I can't reference it, but anyways, but uh yes, it is not December 6th.

00:37:37.039 --> 00:37:38.159
We just all know that.

00:37:38.480 --> 00:37:46.000
Okay, so in the US, William Patrick continued what he had began, began with the look magazine article.

00:37:46.159 --> 00:37:46.480
Yeah.

00:37:46.719 --> 00:37:56.079
He was speaking out against Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany and essentially turned his unusual background story into like a public speaking career.

00:37:56.400 --> 00:38:00.639
Yeah, because he's he's literally still just trying to play off the Hitler name.

00:38:00.800 --> 00:38:03.119
Yes, now he's just going to be anti, yeah.

00:38:03.360 --> 00:38:06.159
Now he's on the opposite side, the anti-side of Hitler.

00:38:06.480 --> 00:38:09.519
Where before he's like, Unki, I need a job.

00:38:09.760 --> 00:38:10.000
Yeah.

00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:11.840
Now it's like Unki suck.

00:38:11.920 --> 00:38:12.320
Yeah.

00:38:12.559 --> 00:38:26.800
So in late 1939, um, in the early years of World War II, William did tour the United States giving lectures about his personal experiences with Hitler and um threat and warnings about the Nazi threat.

00:38:27.119 --> 00:38:27.440
Right.

00:38:27.599 --> 00:38:33.760
So audiences were drawn in by the novelty of Hitler's own nephew speaking against him.

00:38:34.079 --> 00:38:34.320
Sure.

00:38:34.400 --> 00:38:36.719
I mean, that's that's what he played it off of.

00:38:37.119 --> 00:38:37.360
Really?

00:38:37.679 --> 00:38:42.320
He would recount Hitler's rise to power, excuse me, describe the inner workings of the Third Reich.

00:38:42.639 --> 00:38:47.440
He doesn't know the fucking inner workings of the third Reich as that guy.

00:38:47.679 --> 00:38:49.199
As he had observed them.

00:38:49.519 --> 00:38:50.480
Fuck Patty.

00:38:50.639 --> 00:38:52.880
You're such a piece of shit.

00:38:54.800 --> 00:39:01.760
I'm sure that you know, not only did Hitler have dinner with your mom, you probably had dinner with Jesus Christ too, or some shit.

00:39:01.920 --> 00:39:02.639
What the fuck?

00:39:02.719 --> 00:39:06.000
You didn't know the inner workings of the third Reich.

00:39:06.320 --> 00:39:12.079
Okay, American um media Mongol, William Randolph Mongol?

00:39:12.400 --> 00:39:13.599
Mong, god damn it.

00:39:14.000 --> 00:39:14.800
You did it again.

00:39:14.880 --> 00:39:16.400
That's literally the second time.

00:39:17.599 --> 00:39:20.320
That was the Annie Oakley one, if I'm not mistaken, right?

00:39:20.639 --> 00:39:25.599
William Randolph Hearst took an interest in William's tour.

00:39:25.840 --> 00:39:28.079
And to confirm, media mogul.

00:39:28.400 --> 00:39:28.960
Mogul.

00:39:29.440 --> 00:39:36.159
Um hearst was an opponent of Nazism, and he supported Williams' speaking engagements across the country.

00:39:36.480 --> 00:39:37.280
Sure, he did.

00:39:37.599 --> 00:39:41.039
So it was sometimes billed as my uncle Adolf.

00:39:41.519 --> 00:39:46.719
William Patrick's talks capitalized on Americans' growing curiosity towards Hitler.

00:39:47.039 --> 00:39:49.199
America's growing curiosity.

00:39:49.360 --> 00:39:49.840
Wow.

00:39:50.079 --> 00:39:58.320
He appeared in theaters and halls, sharing anecdotes of his life among the Hitlers and urging support for the fight against Nazi Germany.

00:39:58.559 --> 00:40:00.639
He barely had a life among the Hitlers.

00:40:00.719 --> 00:40:02.639
His fucking dad even left it.

00:40:02.800 --> 00:40:03.280
Yeah.

00:40:03.519 --> 00:40:07.280
Who's half-brother to the ultimate douchebag of the world?

00:40:07.440 --> 00:40:07.840
I mean, good.

00:40:08.320 --> 00:40:09.119
But it gets better.

00:40:09.679 --> 00:40:12.320
Uh I feel like you say that condescendingly or something like that.

00:40:12.480 --> 00:40:13.840
No, no, but it does get better.

00:40:14.079 --> 00:40:14.400
Okay.

00:40:15.119 --> 00:40:21.119
So this period turned William into kind of a minor celebrity in the US.

00:40:21.679 --> 00:40:30.079
Um, and despite since any sensationalism, his insight actually helped alert Americans as to the true nature of Hitler's regime.

00:40:30.320 --> 00:40:31.440
Which is great, obviously.

00:40:31.679 --> 00:40:34.400
But this is back when the US was still neutral as well.

00:40:34.719 --> 00:40:37.679
Well, yeah, because we didn't get attacked by Japan.

00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:44.320
So as the war intensified, William became um increasingly determined to do more than just talk.

00:40:44.480 --> 00:40:48.320
He actually wanted to actively fight against his uncle's regime.

00:40:48.559 --> 00:40:49.760
So where did he go?

00:40:50.000 --> 00:41:00.480
So after the United States entered World War II in December 41, yeah, William Patrick sought to join against the Axi power.

00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:01.679
Axis power.

00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:02.480
There it is.

00:41:02.639 --> 00:41:03.440
I like it.

00:41:03.679 --> 00:41:06.559
So what branch of the military did he try to go in?

00:41:06.719 --> 00:41:07.920
Was it just the army?

00:41:08.239 --> 00:41:10.320
He tried to enlist in the U.S.

00:41:10.480 --> 00:41:12.320
Army or the Navy.

00:41:12.559 --> 00:41:13.599
And the Navy?

00:41:13.760 --> 00:41:15.519
I say, is it up in the air?

00:41:16.320 --> 00:41:16.960
Tomato.

00:41:17.360 --> 00:41:18.079
Okay, hold on.

00:41:18.159 --> 00:41:19.039
Let me rewind.

00:41:19.199 --> 00:41:25.199
So enlisting for military service proved complicated given his name.

00:41:26.000 --> 00:41:26.400
Clearly.

00:41:26.719 --> 00:41:33.440
In Britain, William attempted to join the British Armed Forces, but rejected was rejected because of his last name.

00:41:33.679 --> 00:41:34.320
Right.

00:41:34.880 --> 00:41:39.920
Um, and in America, he faced a similar like hesitation.

00:41:40.239 --> 00:41:44.719
So in 42 and 43, he tried to list into the army and the navy.

00:41:44.960 --> 00:41:45.360
Gotcha.

00:41:45.679 --> 00:41:50.159
And they were wary of accepting him as Hitler's nephew.

00:41:50.480 --> 00:41:57.599
So at first his applications were denied for fear that you know his loyalties were uncertain.

00:41:58.559 --> 00:42:00.079
Are you gonna be a spy?

00:42:00.320 --> 00:42:00.639
Yeah.

00:42:01.039 --> 00:42:03.199
So okay.

00:42:03.519 --> 00:42:08.239
Obviously, this name is very popular at the moment because of what's going on.

00:42:08.880 --> 00:42:13.920
Like, hey, this uh Bill the Piller guy just applied.

00:42:14.320 --> 00:42:15.440
I think he's related.

00:42:15.679 --> 00:42:20.400
I mean, how do again not a common last name apparently?

00:42:20.719 --> 00:42:23.440
But it's like, did they just automatically know?

00:42:23.679 --> 00:42:27.599
Was it do you have any uncles mass murdering people?

00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:28.960
Check yes or no.

00:42:29.119 --> 00:42:35.840
I mean I don't know if they asked those type of types of questions or just immediately like poo-pooed because of the laughter.

00:42:39.280 --> 00:42:42.239
We're gonna we're just gonna not try get Smith over here.

00:42:42.400 --> 00:42:46.960
Yeah, we're gonna 4F you well well played.

00:42:47.119 --> 00:42:47.920
Thank you.

00:42:49.599 --> 00:42:51.679
So William was persistent though.

00:42:51.840 --> 00:42:56.239
He sincerely wanted to prove himself on the Allied side and shed the Hitler name.

00:42:56.400 --> 00:42:59.840
So he was frustrated with the roadblocks.

00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:04.000
So William took a very extraordinary step.

00:43:04.400 --> 00:43:11.280
Changes he wrote a personal letter directly to President Roosevelt, nope, Franklin D.

00:43:11.360 --> 00:43:12.480
Roosevelt.

00:43:14.239 --> 00:43:15.360
Directly.

00:43:16.000 --> 00:43:21.840
So this happened in 1942, and it was a petition for special permission to serve.

00:43:21.920 --> 00:43:23.440
And actually, I read the whole letter.

00:43:23.599 --> 00:43:24.079
Did you read?

00:43:24.239 --> 00:43:24.960
It's fairly long.

00:43:25.119 --> 00:43:25.599
Oh, really?

00:43:25.760 --> 00:43:27.519
Um, I will have it in our show notes.

00:43:27.760 --> 00:43:28.079
Okay.

00:43:28.400 --> 00:43:36.400
Um, but essentially, he uh William explained his awkward predicament and emphasized that he sought only to fight against his uncle's regime.

00:43:36.559 --> 00:43:36.880
Right.

00:43:37.039 --> 00:43:47.840
So he noted that the British were kind to him, but they could not in the long term feel overly cordial or sympathetic towards someone related, individual related.

00:43:48.079 --> 00:43:48.800
Yes, exactly.

00:43:49.039 --> 00:43:49.440
Yeah.

00:43:49.679 --> 00:43:53.440
So he kind of hinted at the stigma that was kind of surrounding him.

00:43:53.840 --> 00:43:55.920
So I have to say.

00:43:56.079 --> 00:43:57.199
Yes, yes, yes.

00:43:57.679 --> 00:44:04.880
I get where he's going right now with this, but it's so funny because I don't know, a couple of years earlier, I'm Hitler.

00:44:05.039 --> 00:44:05.280
Yeah.

00:44:05.440 --> 00:44:05.920
How are you?

00:44:06.079 --> 00:44:07.599
Yeah, let's date me.

00:44:08.960 --> 00:44:09.440
How are you?

00:44:09.679 --> 00:44:12.079
Hey, finger guns.

00:44:13.039 --> 00:44:19.679
And now it's all of a sudden, I'm so sad I can't fight against Uncle Hitler because my name's Hitler.

00:44:20.320 --> 00:44:21.280
What the fuck?

00:44:21.440 --> 00:44:23.119
I mean, it's just I love the accent.

00:44:23.360 --> 00:44:24.239
It's that's it was terrible.

00:44:24.320 --> 00:44:26.079
I am I know it was pretty great.

00:44:27.280 --> 00:44:28.320
But you know what I mean?

00:44:28.559 --> 00:44:33.440
Oh, well with me, um I'm um Hitler's little nephew.

00:44:34.320 --> 00:44:36.719
Once removed, or whatever the fuck that shit is.

00:44:36.880 --> 00:44:43.199
But it's like he was all about it, yep, and it didn't work out.

00:44:43.920 --> 00:44:46.559
Well, his uncle insulted him, so I'm gonna insult you back.

00:44:46.719 --> 00:44:49.679
Yeah, but he was a little pestery bitch to his uncle.

00:44:50.719 --> 00:44:51.840
What I'm not wrong.

00:44:52.079 --> 00:44:54.960
No, I mean at least that's so on the side of William.

00:44:55.199 --> 00:44:56.960
No, I'm not saying I'm not.

00:44:57.039 --> 00:45:02.880
I'm just saying that's Adolf's perception and stance, whatever, of his his half-nephew.

00:45:03.440 --> 00:45:05.920
So it's like, dude, you're so fucking annoying.

00:45:06.000 --> 00:45:07.119
Yeah, sell cars.

00:45:08.159 --> 00:45:11.360
Dude, this is probably not gonna this this brand won't even be around any much longer.

00:45:11.599 --> 00:45:12.320
Sell that shit.

00:45:12.480 --> 00:45:14.000
You're fucking annoying.

00:45:14.960 --> 00:45:15.840
Go to America.

00:45:15.920 --> 00:45:23.599
No, obviously he didn't say that, but he's like, renounce, renounce your British citizenship, and I'll let you see the inner workings that you so claimed you saw.

00:45:24.800 --> 00:45:33.760
Okay, so President Roosevelt took note of his unusual request and actually forward it to FBI director Jay Edgar Hoover.

00:45:34.079 --> 00:45:34.320
Hoover.

00:45:34.960 --> 00:45:36.320
He was a body remover.

00:45:36.480 --> 00:45:38.559
Rage against the machine is the shit.

00:45:38.800 --> 00:45:39.360
Anyways.

00:45:39.679 --> 00:45:48.159
So the FBI conducted a background check and found no evidence of disloyalty or subservient intent on William's part.

00:45:48.559 --> 00:45:54.559
So Washington decided to give William Hitler a chance to prove himself.

00:45:54.880 --> 00:45:56.400
I wish they just call him Bill.

00:45:57.440 --> 00:45:58.079
Bill Hitler.

00:45:58.320 --> 00:45:58.800
Patty.

00:45:59.119 --> 00:46:01.360
I know that's his nickname, but Bill Hitler is funnier.

00:46:01.679 --> 00:46:07.440
In early 1944, William Patrick Hitler was finally cleared to join the U.S.

00:46:07.599 --> 00:46:08.159
Navy.

00:46:08.480 --> 00:46:10.079
So he tried for like three years.

00:46:10.400 --> 00:46:12.719
Did you have a little patch that said Hitler on his arm?

00:46:13.199 --> 00:46:17.840
Like a that's isn't that what they have on in the army of like you know, saving private Ryan?

00:46:18.000 --> 00:46:18.719
It said Ryan.

00:46:19.760 --> 00:46:21.679
Well, it would probably be here, right?

00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:22.800
Uh maybe, yeah.

00:46:22.880 --> 00:46:25.119
I guess I I've never been in the army, I'm sorry.

00:46:25.599 --> 00:46:26.079
Same.

00:46:26.639 --> 00:46:29.840
And you know all movies are true, so I don't know.

00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:32.400
Saving Private Ryan's pretty fucking amazing.

00:46:33.039 --> 00:46:43.679
So side note, it has nothing to do with it has something to do with saving private Ryan, but um Jimmy Kimmel and Matt Damon have had this funny feud going on for a long time.

00:46:44.400 --> 00:46:47.920
And shit that happened to Jimmy Kimmel, he's back on the air or whatever.

00:46:48.239 --> 00:46:48.800
So is he?

00:46:48.960 --> 00:46:49.360
Yeah.

00:46:49.599 --> 00:46:52.159
Um, so I saw a clip of it.

00:46:52.320 --> 00:46:59.920
I didn't get to see all of it, but Matt Damon showed up in a costume, like a like a weird furry type costume thing with a head on and everything.

00:47:00.079 --> 00:47:02.159
And of course, takes head off, it's Matt Damon.

00:47:02.639 --> 00:47:05.119
And he's making he's one of my favorites.

00:47:05.280 --> 00:47:09.840
Yeah, and that's why I'm also telling you this, because this is one of Kate's favorite actors, uh, Matt Damon.

00:47:10.000 --> 00:47:11.440
So he takes head off, obviously.

00:47:11.760 --> 00:47:12.159
Exchange.

00:47:12.239 --> 00:47:16.719
That's this is the part I saw basically, and I'm just paraphrasing because I I don't have it word for word.

00:47:16.880 --> 00:47:20.880
But he goes, Um uh he's making fun of Jimmy Kimmel.

00:47:21.039 --> 00:47:23.280
He's like, Yeah, well, like who are you basically?

00:47:23.360 --> 00:47:26.400
I know I got like Tom Hanks on on the show.

00:47:26.639 --> 00:47:31.840
He's like, Tom Hanks, I'm Private Ryan, bitch, or was something like that.

00:47:32.079 --> 00:47:35.280
It was so fucking I love Matt Damon, he's so great.

00:47:35.360 --> 00:47:35.599
Uh-huh.

00:47:35.760 --> 00:47:36.559
He's so funny.

00:47:36.639 --> 00:47:37.840
But, anyways, okay.

00:47:39.760 --> 00:47:41.760
He was clear for the for the Navy, right?

00:47:42.000 --> 00:47:42.800
For the Navy, okay.

00:47:42.960 --> 00:47:44.000
So he's on a boat.

00:47:44.239 --> 00:47:51.360
So on March 6, 1944, he was formally sworn in at the Navy recruiting station in New York.

00:47:51.599 --> 00:47:51.920
Okay.

00:47:52.719 --> 00:47:55.599
And there was one popular anecdote.

00:47:55.679 --> 00:48:00.159
I don't know if it's true or not, but I've found it in a couple different places.

00:48:00.320 --> 00:48:00.639
Okay.

00:48:01.119 --> 00:48:02.320
But excuse me.

00:48:02.880 --> 00:48:10.880
When William introduced himself to the recruiting officer as Hitler, the officer replied, and glad to see you, Hitler.

00:48:10.960 --> 00:48:12.079
My name's Hess.

00:48:13.039 --> 00:48:16.639
As in Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess.

00:48:16.800 --> 00:48:19.360
Just anyway.

00:48:19.599 --> 00:48:20.000
Anyways.

00:48:20.320 --> 00:48:22.159
Anyway, that fellows are pretty good.

00:48:22.480 --> 00:48:23.199
Short ears, okay.

00:48:23.360 --> 00:48:24.559
That's a pretty good anecdote.

00:48:24.800 --> 00:48:28.079
Okay, so William entered the Navy as a hospital corpsman.

00:48:28.400 --> 00:48:29.039
Hospital?

00:48:29.199 --> 00:48:29.519
Mm-hmm.

00:48:29.679 --> 00:48:29.840
Okay.

00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:33.280
And at the time he was referred to as a pharmacist mate.

00:48:33.679 --> 00:48:37.119
So he would provide medical aid to sailors and Marines.

00:48:37.360 --> 00:48:37.599
Okay.

00:48:38.000 --> 00:48:42.400
So he underwent training and was assigned to duty in the war.

00:48:42.639 --> 00:48:47.679
So William Patrick, now wearing an American uniform, served with distinction.

00:48:47.760 --> 00:48:48.800
He was proud.

00:48:49.280 --> 00:48:51.119
I'm sorry about my cough right now.

00:48:51.440 --> 00:48:55.760
Um, so clearly he wasn't an American citizen.

00:48:56.639 --> 00:48:59.280
You could just sign up.

00:48:59.519 --> 00:49:00.719
Back then, I guess I don't know.

00:49:00.960 --> 00:49:01.199
I don't know.

00:49:01.280 --> 00:49:04.480
He kind of really has kind of got the presidents and the FBI's okay.

00:49:05.679 --> 00:49:08.559
So um I don't know how that all works.

00:49:08.880 --> 00:49:10.480
I mean, I guess I don't even know now.

00:49:10.559 --> 00:49:11.920
Do you have to be a citizen?

00:49:12.159 --> 00:49:14.880
Well, remember when we talked about the Zoot Suit riots?

00:49:15.039 --> 00:49:20.079
There was a lot of like Mexican, I guess they were Mexican Americans wanting to go into the that's what I thought too.

00:49:20.159 --> 00:49:23.840
Unless we're misremembering, but I I I I don't know.

00:49:24.320 --> 00:49:26.079
I'm literally just asking because I don't know.

00:49:26.159 --> 00:49:28.159
I didn't expect you to either, but I'm just curious.

00:49:28.400 --> 00:49:29.119
Yeah, I don't know.

00:49:29.440 --> 00:49:29.840
Sorry.

00:49:31.119 --> 00:49:31.760
I don't know.

00:49:32.000 --> 00:49:32.880
Clearly not.

00:49:33.679 --> 00:49:35.039
Because they accepted him.

00:49:35.280 --> 00:49:35.920
They did.

00:49:36.159 --> 00:49:37.679
Because thumbs up, president.

00:49:37.840 --> 00:49:38.320
Let's move on.

00:49:38.559 --> 00:49:39.360
And FBI director.

00:49:39.519 --> 00:49:40.159
Well, that too.

00:49:40.400 --> 00:49:42.400
So he spent three years in the U.S.

00:49:42.480 --> 00:49:44.639
Navy from 44 until 47.

00:49:45.840 --> 00:49:47.440
So he was even after the war.

00:49:47.599 --> 00:49:47.840
Okay.

00:49:48.159 --> 00:49:50.320
So he worked as a naval hospital.

00:49:50.480 --> 00:49:53.280
He worked on a naval hospital ship.

00:49:53.519 --> 00:49:54.159
Oh, okay.

00:49:54.400 --> 00:50:00.000
And he had other assignments, although, and he um he tended to wounded personnel.

00:50:00.239 --> 00:50:00.639
Gotcha.

00:50:00.800 --> 00:50:03.440
Not a whole lot of information here because that wasn't my point.

00:50:03.679 --> 00:50:04.239
No, of course.

00:50:04.480 --> 00:50:15.440
But during this service, he was wounded in action, and at one point he sustained shrapnel injury to his leg from an explosion, and he got a purple heart medal um because of it.

00:50:15.679 --> 00:50:17.440
I was gonna say, how did he get wounded?

00:50:17.599 --> 00:50:19.760
He like actually missed the syringe and get himself.

00:50:19.840 --> 00:50:21.840
I mean, what the fuck?

00:50:22.719 --> 00:50:24.480
Shrapnel's not no joke, though.

00:50:24.639 --> 00:50:25.679
Shrapnel's no joke.

00:50:25.840 --> 00:50:27.440
No, that's that's not so good.

00:50:28.000 --> 00:50:32.880
He, by all accounts, he carried out his duties honorably and without any special treatment.

00:50:33.280 --> 00:50:39.840
Um, few of his comrades even realized that Hitler in their roster was related to Adolf Hitler.

00:50:40.400 --> 00:50:44.079
They put it together kind of thing, or did they just they didn't really put it together?

00:50:44.239 --> 00:50:45.039
Oh, they didn't put it together.

00:50:45.199 --> 00:50:46.639
No, they didn't really put it together.

00:50:46.880 --> 00:50:47.280
Gotcha.

00:50:47.360 --> 00:50:47.519
Yeah.

00:50:47.760 --> 00:50:49.039
Oh, you got a weird last name, man.

00:50:49.119 --> 00:50:50.000
This dude we're fighting.

00:50:50.159 --> 00:50:50.480
Same thing.

00:50:51.039 --> 00:50:54.480
Smith and Smith, you know, it's a pretty common name, am I right?

00:50:54.719 --> 00:51:04.559
So his um superiors described him as a solid sailor and noted his genuine genuine disdain for vile acts as part of his uncle's regime.

00:51:04.800 --> 00:51:06.800
Which is also unclercing.

00:51:07.760 --> 00:51:10.000
I mean, hey man, do you see my uncler?

00:51:10.480 --> 00:51:17.199
So he was honorably discharged in 1947 at the rank of pharmacist mate first class.

00:51:17.840 --> 00:51:23.119
And um, by that time, he had been part of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany.

00:51:23.360 --> 00:51:24.960
What kind of pension do you think you got from that?

00:51:25.039 --> 00:51:26.239
I don't fucking know.

00:51:27.519 --> 00:51:29.119
You deserve it all.

00:51:29.920 --> 00:51:30.960
Just take it.

00:51:31.280 --> 00:51:32.639
You did good works.

00:51:33.119 --> 00:51:35.440
You apply band-aids like no other.

00:51:36.960 --> 00:51:39.119
With a horrendous last name.

00:51:41.039 --> 00:51:41.599
Never mind.

00:51:41.679 --> 00:51:43.519
I wasn't saying I won't say what I was gonna say.

00:51:43.599 --> 00:51:45.679
I'll save that for after the podcast.

00:51:45.840 --> 00:51:53.360
Okay, so not only did William Hitler um not help the Third Reich, he had actually taken up arms to oppose it.

00:51:53.599 --> 00:51:54.320
To arms.

00:51:54.559 --> 00:52:01.599
And William's decision to fight against his own blood reflected the complete reversal of his stance from the early 1930s.

00:52:02.239 --> 00:52:02.400
Okay.

00:52:02.960 --> 00:52:03.599
Yeah, yeah.

00:52:03.920 --> 00:52:08.320
After the war, William Patrick Hitler sought a fresh start.

00:52:08.960 --> 00:52:09.760
Change his name.

00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:10.239
Yes.

00:52:10.480 --> 00:52:11.360
What did he change it to?

00:52:11.440 --> 00:52:12.000
Hitler?

00:52:13.280 --> 00:52:14.320
Heidler Heidler.

00:52:14.480 --> 00:52:15.199
Heidler.

00:52:15.440 --> 00:52:23.280
In 1947, soon after leaving the Navy, he legally changed his name to Stuart Houston.

00:52:23.599 --> 00:52:25.679
Stuart Houston?

00:52:26.000 --> 00:52:26.800
Not my last name.

00:52:26.960 --> 00:52:28.079
S-T-U-A-R-T.

00:52:28.320 --> 00:52:28.559
Stuart.

00:52:29.280 --> 00:52:32.079
No, I get what the first name Stuart is.

00:52:32.320 --> 00:52:32.639
No.

00:52:32.960 --> 00:52:34.079
And now apparently everyone knows that.

00:52:35.360 --> 00:52:37.280
It's a hyphenated last name.

00:52:37.519 --> 00:52:39.440
William Patrick Stuart Houston.

00:52:39.599 --> 00:52:40.239
Yes.

00:52:40.639 --> 00:52:41.199
Why?

00:52:41.440 --> 00:52:43.360
In God's fucking name.

00:52:43.679 --> 00:52:44.880
Would you you know what?

00:52:45.039 --> 00:52:49.280
Hitler's it's got a it's got a weird taint to the name.

00:52:49.440 --> 00:52:52.320
Let's uh hyphenated name would be good.

00:52:52.559 --> 00:52:55.840
Who would hyphenate their name when you But you don't have to?

00:52:56.800 --> 00:53:00.960
People only do that when they get married and can't fucking decide which last name should we have?

00:53:01.679 --> 00:53:08.320
Okay, hold on one second, because there is something that I found about Stuart Houston.

00:53:09.519 --> 00:53:11.840
Is it is there a significance to it?

00:53:12.079 --> 00:53:17.440
There was a speculation about something, and I'm gonna try to find it here real quick.

00:53:17.760 --> 00:53:21.519
I still feel like he could have gone to William Patrick Dowling, but okay.

00:53:22.559 --> 00:53:23.519
You know, honor mama.

00:53:24.480 --> 00:53:27.840
So mom's still in the States, too, at this time?

00:53:28.079 --> 00:53:28.559
Yes, okay.

00:53:28.800 --> 00:53:29.599
She is in the States.

00:53:29.920 --> 00:53:30.400
Gotcha.

00:53:32.559 --> 00:53:41.519
Okay, the surname, the new surname, was said to be inspired in part by an admiration for American culture.

00:53:42.079 --> 00:53:47.519
Some have noted it echoes the name of Houston Stewart Champlain.

00:53:47.679 --> 00:53:49.199
No, Chamberlain, sorry.

00:53:49.679 --> 00:53:50.880
Hewart, nope.

00:53:55.679 --> 00:54:03.599
Houston Stewart Chamberlain, a writer admired by Nazi ideologues.

00:54:05.119 --> 00:54:06.880
Isn't that a bad thing?

00:54:07.840 --> 00:54:08.480
Wait a minute.

00:54:08.559 --> 00:54:10.000
I thought we were trying to go away from that.

00:54:10.159 --> 00:54:11.440
I thought so too.

00:54:11.840 --> 00:54:13.599
So he's like, I'll get I'll show him.

00:54:13.760 --> 00:54:16.400
I'm gonna be Stuart Houston, not Houston Stewart.

00:54:16.639 --> 00:54:20.719
And this was all just speculation, weird shit.

00:54:20.960 --> 00:54:23.280
I mean, no, no validity to it kind of thing.

00:54:23.360 --> 00:54:23.440
Yeah.

00:54:23.760 --> 00:54:23.920
No.

00:54:24.079 --> 00:54:24.800
Okay, fair enough.

00:54:25.039 --> 00:54:25.360
Yes.

00:54:25.599 --> 00:54:26.159
I don't know.

00:54:26.320 --> 00:54:29.760
I just if I was gonna change my name, I'm not gonna pick a hyphenated fucking name.

00:54:29.840 --> 00:54:30.800
That seems like a lot of work.

00:54:31.039 --> 00:54:36.000
Also, him disregarding Hitler forever, he actually doesn't, and it's really confusing to me.

00:54:36.079 --> 00:54:37.440
And I will tell you why.

00:54:38.079 --> 00:54:39.199
Then why do it?

00:54:39.360 --> 00:54:40.239
I will tell you why.

00:54:40.400 --> 00:54:42.079
Well, I will tell you what happened anyway.

00:54:42.320 --> 00:54:42.639
Okay.

00:54:42.960 --> 00:54:43.280
Okay.

00:54:43.840 --> 00:54:44.880
Oh my god.

00:54:45.519 --> 00:54:48.079
I put that speculation in my next sentence.

00:54:48.320 --> 00:54:48.639
Yeah?

00:54:48.800 --> 00:54:49.119
Yeah.

00:54:49.440 --> 00:54:55.039
So if you just read the surname is said to have been inspired by no, I fucking said it.

00:54:56.880 --> 00:55:02.239
I don't always read what I wrote right before we press record.

00:55:02.639 --> 00:55:04.960
I read it like four four days ago, wrote it.

00:55:05.360 --> 00:55:10.559
It's it's not like it's you don't sit there and write this story like, all right, we gotta record now.

00:55:10.719 --> 00:55:11.119
Yeah.

00:55:11.360 --> 00:55:13.280
You write it literally days prior.

00:55:13.599 --> 00:55:17.679
So there's and with your memory, I'm surprised you know where you live.

00:55:18.000 --> 00:55:18.480
What?

00:55:18.639 --> 00:55:21.119
What okay?

00:55:22.480 --> 00:55:24.320
So sorry.

00:55:24.880 --> 00:55:27.199
Just replaying that scenario.

00:55:27.360 --> 00:55:27.840
Anyways.

00:55:28.159 --> 00:55:31.119
He did occasionally go by Willie Stewart Houston.

00:55:31.519 --> 00:55:32.480
Willie Stewart.

00:55:32.559 --> 00:55:33.840
What happened to Patty?

00:55:34.639 --> 00:55:36.639
It was a fucking nickname.

00:55:36.800 --> 00:55:37.360
I don't know.

00:55:37.519 --> 00:55:41.360
Sometimes Patty, sometimes William, sometimes maybe they call him Bill too.

00:55:41.679 --> 00:55:42.000
Okay.

00:55:43.280 --> 00:55:48.400
Okay, William, Patrick, and his mother Bridget initially lived in Queens, New York.

00:55:48.639 --> 00:55:50.880
Oh, I meant to ask where they actually lived.

00:55:51.039 --> 00:55:51.360
Okay.

00:55:51.760 --> 00:55:54.320
And then they soon moved out to Long Island.

00:55:54.480 --> 00:55:58.639
So they made their hometown in Patchagoo.

00:55:58.800 --> 00:56:02.079
Patch you Long Island, New York.

00:56:02.239 --> 00:56:02.719
Patchagu.

00:56:03.119 --> 00:56:03.920
How spell it?

00:56:04.159 --> 00:56:06.960
Patch O G-U-E.

00:56:08.480 --> 00:56:09.599
Patchogue.

00:56:10.400 --> 00:56:12.880
I mean, we're just gonna go with Patchagu, I guess.

00:56:14.079 --> 00:56:15.280
Wow, I have no idea.

00:56:15.360 --> 00:56:16.320
I've never heard of that before.

00:56:16.480 --> 00:56:16.800
Yeah.

00:56:16.960 --> 00:56:18.639
I've heard of Long Island.

00:56:18.960 --> 00:56:20.639
I fucking hope so.

00:56:20.960 --> 00:56:21.280
Okay.

00:56:21.840 --> 00:56:28.400
So William Patrick Stuart Houston lived a relatively low profile as an American citizen.

00:56:28.639 --> 00:56:31.599
He became an entrepreneur, founding a business.

00:56:32.079 --> 00:56:32.960
Was it a hotel?

00:56:33.199 --> 00:56:38.079
No, it's called Brookhaven Laboratories, which was a medical analysis laboratory.

00:56:38.320 --> 00:56:41.679
Oh, so he kind of kept the whole medical thing because that's what he was in the Navy for.

00:56:41.840 --> 00:56:42.079
Yes.

00:56:42.239 --> 00:56:46.559
So he specialized in blood analysis and clinical testing, and he did it out of his home.

00:56:46.800 --> 00:56:47.440
Oh shit.

00:56:47.599 --> 00:56:53.519
And William's lab was by all accounts successful and provided a decent living for him and his and his family.

00:56:53.760 --> 00:56:54.079
Okay.

00:56:54.320 --> 00:56:55.840
So neighbors married?

00:56:56.000 --> 00:56:57.920
He did, and I and now we'll get into that as well.

00:56:58.559 --> 00:57:03.440
So neighbors knew him as William Stuart Houston or Bill.

00:57:04.320 --> 00:57:06.239
Oh, I finally got to the Bill.

00:57:06.960 --> 00:57:07.280
Nice.

00:57:07.440 --> 00:57:15.119
And few suspected that his that this local businessman, this neighbor of ours, was actually a blood relative of Adolf Hitler.

00:57:15.360 --> 00:57:16.400
How'd they suspect that?

00:57:16.559 --> 00:57:17.119
Yeah.

00:57:18.320 --> 00:57:19.760
He burped a lot.

00:57:20.800 --> 00:57:23.519
Maybe he let it slip every once in a while.

00:57:24.159 --> 00:57:26.079
He's like Brittler.

00:57:27.360 --> 00:57:28.000
Britler.

00:57:28.320 --> 00:57:30.880
Britler, because he's British and never mind.

00:57:31.199 --> 00:57:32.480
So he did not be bad.

00:57:32.719 --> 00:57:37.280
He did not advertise his past after the publicity of the 1940s.

00:57:37.360 --> 00:57:40.079
He deliberately receded from the public view.

00:57:40.880 --> 00:57:43.039
So he actually became an American citizen.

00:57:43.440 --> 00:57:45.119
Like he's officially an American citizen.

00:57:45.519 --> 00:57:45.679
Okay.

00:57:46.000 --> 00:57:50.320
Bridget Dowling, his mother, lived with him on Long Island until her death.

00:57:50.480 --> 00:57:53.360
She passed away in 1969 at age 78.

00:57:53.519 --> 00:57:54.000
Oh wow.

00:57:54.079 --> 00:57:54.719
Pretty good.

00:57:54.960 --> 00:57:59.920
She had co-authored a fanciful memoir decades earlier, which is what she talked about.

00:58:00.320 --> 00:58:00.719
Fabricated.

00:58:00.960 --> 00:58:01.840
Fabricated, yes.

00:58:02.239 --> 00:58:05.039
Um, but in her later years, she stayed out of the spotlight.

00:58:05.199 --> 00:58:05.840
She didn't do anything.

00:58:06.079 --> 00:58:06.719
Why would she?

00:58:06.800 --> 00:58:09.360
I mean, yeah, it just brings more publicity.

00:58:09.599 --> 00:58:10.239
Yeah, exactly.

00:58:10.320 --> 00:58:14.239
I I married Adolf's half-brother and I lied about shit.

00:58:14.400 --> 00:58:18.480
So William continued to maintain strict privacy about his background.

00:58:18.639 --> 00:58:18.960
Sure.

00:58:19.119 --> 00:58:25.039
It is noted that the family's tombstone in Long Island bears no mention of Hitler's name.

00:58:25.280 --> 00:58:25.920
Thank God.

00:58:26.079 --> 00:58:40.159
Um, he lived under the Raider for the rest of his life, only making one or two brief mentions back into uh uh about his background too um for media attention, a little bit of media attention, but well, yeah, it has to help the business.

00:58:40.480 --> 00:58:51.840
Um around 1977, a journalist tracked him down and he acknowledged his identity but firmly declined inner in any interviews or um, yes, I am, but now I'm good.

00:58:52.000 --> 00:59:01.679
Yeah, okay, and for the most part, William Patrick lived out his his post-war decades as a husband, a father, and a small business owner in America.

00:59:01.920 --> 00:59:03.280
So, how many kids did he have?

00:59:03.519 --> 00:59:05.440
So in 1947.

00:59:05.599 --> 00:59:08.000
Yeah, so the same year he changed his name.

00:59:08.159 --> 00:59:08.400
Exactly.

00:59:08.719 --> 00:59:09.440
Got out of the Navy, yeah.

00:59:09.519 --> 00:59:10.719
Yep, and he changed his name.

00:59:10.880 --> 00:59:12.559
He also became a U.S.

00:59:12.639 --> 00:59:13.360
citizen that year.

00:59:13.599 --> 00:59:14.159
That's the year.

00:59:14.239 --> 00:59:14.400
Okay.

00:59:14.800 --> 00:59:21.840
So William married Phyllis Jean Jacks, who was a German-born woman who had emigrated to the United States.

00:59:22.079 --> 00:59:22.400
Okay.

00:59:22.880 --> 00:59:31.199
And despite Phyllis's own German origins, it's known that she was not connected to the Nazi era and had moved to America during the war.

00:59:31.440 --> 00:59:31.760
Okay.

00:59:31.920 --> 00:59:38.159
So the wedding took place in New York, and William fight and had like a nice family life with her.

00:59:38.320 --> 00:59:44.639
Um, Phyllis and William settled in the house on Long Island and had four sons together.

00:59:45.360 --> 00:59:46.159
Oh, four sons.

00:59:46.239 --> 00:59:46.719
Wow, okay.

00:59:46.960 --> 00:59:47.519
Yes.

00:59:48.000 --> 00:59:50.480
Now, this is where it gets a little weird.

00:59:50.719 --> 00:59:52.800
He didn't name one Adolf, did he?

00:59:53.440 --> 00:59:54.960
Oh, he did, didn't he?

00:59:55.519 --> 00:59:56.719
Are you kidding me?

00:59:56.960 --> 00:59:58.239
The youngest brother.

00:59:58.639 --> 00:59:59.840
He was born in 1960.

01:00:00.159 --> 01:00:00.800
65.

01:00:00.960 --> 01:00:01.599
Brilliant.

01:00:01.760 --> 01:00:02.159
Nope.

01:00:02.480 --> 01:00:03.360
Brillium.

01:00:05.599 --> 01:00:06.480
Brian.

01:00:07.280 --> 01:00:08.000
Well yeah.

01:00:08.960 --> 01:00:11.119
Oh my brilliant.

01:00:11.599 --> 01:00:14.239
Isn't that like a a never mind.

01:00:14.559 --> 01:00:16.480
Brilliant is a town near me.

01:00:16.800 --> 01:00:22.559
No, but isn't there isn't brilliant like, isn't that like a uh something on the periodic table?

01:00:22.719 --> 01:00:23.039
Maybe.

01:00:23.119 --> 01:00:26.559
I think maybe unless I'm I it's been a while since chemistry.

01:00:26.719 --> 01:00:27.119
My bad.

01:00:27.280 --> 01:00:31.599
So Brian William Stuart Houston was the youngest in 1965.

01:00:31.840 --> 01:00:32.320
Yes.

01:00:32.639 --> 01:00:36.480
Howard Ronald Stuart Houston was born in 1957.

01:00:36.639 --> 01:00:38.880
He served as a special agent in the U.S.

01:00:39.039 --> 01:00:40.639
Internal Revenue Service.

01:00:40.960 --> 01:00:41.280
Wow.

01:00:41.440 --> 01:00:41.920
Good man.

01:00:42.079 --> 01:00:42.639
IRS.

01:00:42.960 --> 01:00:46.639
He died tragically in 1989 at the age of 32.

01:00:46.880 --> 01:00:47.760
Oh, damn.

01:00:48.480 --> 01:00:55.039
The next one, uh, so second to oldest, Lewis Lewis Stuart Houston, born in 1951.

01:00:55.599 --> 01:00:57.119
He didn't have a middle name?

01:00:57.920 --> 01:01:00.079
So I looked into that, and apparently, no.

01:01:00.159 --> 01:01:00.800
I don't know.

01:01:00.880 --> 01:01:01.199
I don't know.

01:01:01.360 --> 01:01:02.079
I looked into it.

01:01:02.320 --> 01:01:03.039
That's so weird.

01:01:03.199 --> 01:01:03.840
It's weird.

01:01:04.000 --> 01:01:04.880
Now, here we go.

01:01:05.119 --> 01:01:08.159
Oh no, the oldest was born in 1949.

01:01:08.480 --> 01:01:09.280
Oh, Jesus Christ.

01:01:09.599 --> 01:01:13.360
Alexander Adolph Stuart Houston.

01:01:14.159 --> 01:01:15.679
Why would you do that?

01:01:16.480 --> 01:01:18.400
I don't fucking know.

01:01:19.360 --> 01:01:21.280
You're trying to distance yourself.

01:01:21.440 --> 01:01:32.320
You want a fucking quiet life without the Hitler uh uh connection, but yet I mean don't get me wrong, Adolf isn't he's not the only Adolph in this world.

01:01:32.480 --> 01:01:35.039
There's been other Edoffs, obviously.

01:01:35.360 --> 01:01:40.480
But he's dangerously close to naming him after your uncle.

01:01:40.800 --> 01:01:42.639
Well, I mean, that's what he did.

01:01:43.679 --> 01:01:51.679
Because it's not like he named him Alexander No, what was uh dad's name?

01:01:51.840 --> 01:01:52.559
Aloy Alois?

01:01:52.880 --> 01:01:53.360
Alois.

01:01:53.599 --> 01:01:55.360
He could have made named him Alois.

01:01:55.679 --> 01:01:57.280
But he was kind of a dick and left him.

01:01:57.440 --> 01:01:58.800
His grandfather may be.

01:02:01.039 --> 01:02:02.639
Your name is Alois Sr.

01:02:03.119 --> 01:02:04.800
Seriously, Stuart Houston.

01:02:05.280 --> 01:02:07.920
His name was Alexander Adolf.

01:02:08.559 --> 01:02:10.159
I don't fucking know why.

01:02:10.400 --> 01:02:14.239
At least it wasn't Alexander Adolf Hitler or Stuart Houston.

01:02:14.639 --> 01:02:15.840
That'd be a little weirder.

01:02:16.159 --> 01:02:19.119
Adolf is weird enough, but that would have been really strange.

01:02:19.519 --> 01:02:21.280
Is it a nod to the family?

01:02:21.440 --> 01:02:22.559
I I don't know.

01:02:22.880 --> 01:02:27.280
But see, here's the thing, and the whole devil's advocate or whatever you want to fucking say.

01:02:27.760 --> 01:02:30.639
He's German descent.

01:02:31.280 --> 01:02:32.079
And he's British.

01:02:32.320 --> 01:02:33.760
He's half Irish, half German.

01:02:34.239 --> 01:02:35.199
Lived in England.

01:02:35.440 --> 01:02:36.880
And now an American.

01:02:37.840 --> 01:02:40.719
What a weird web we weave here.

01:02:40.880 --> 01:02:40.960
Yeah.

01:02:41.280 --> 01:02:43.840
He's a kitchen sink of nationalities.

01:02:48.159 --> 01:02:50.480
Don't turn on the garbage disposal.

01:02:50.800 --> 01:02:51.199
Anyway.

01:02:51.519 --> 01:02:52.559
You might get Hitler out of it.

01:02:52.639 --> 01:02:52.960
What?

01:02:53.119 --> 01:02:55.280
Holy fuck, then turn it on.

01:02:55.679 --> 01:02:57.599
Grind that fucker up.

01:02:58.320 --> 01:02:58.639
No.

01:02:59.119 --> 01:03:00.159
Where was I going?

01:03:01.119 --> 01:03:02.639
Garbage disposal.

01:03:04.480 --> 01:03:05.119
Weird.

01:03:05.440 --> 01:03:06.000
It's weird.

01:03:06.159 --> 01:03:06.960
That's what I was going for.

01:03:07.119 --> 01:03:07.440
It's weird.

01:03:07.760 --> 01:03:07.920
Weird.

01:03:08.159 --> 01:03:08.400
Yeah.

01:03:08.639 --> 01:03:14.800
I mean, he's has German heritage in his blood because his dad was German.

01:03:15.039 --> 01:03:15.360
Yes.

01:03:15.679 --> 01:03:16.639
Well, was he German?

01:03:17.119 --> 01:03:18.239
Was his dad German?

01:03:18.400 --> 01:03:20.719
Because Hitler was Austrian.

01:03:21.599 --> 01:03:27.679
And his half-brother because the same dad you said, right?

01:03:27.920 --> 01:03:28.400
Yes.

01:03:28.719 --> 01:03:30.320
Alois senior.

01:03:30.719 --> 01:03:31.199
Right?

01:03:31.920 --> 01:03:32.239
Yes.

01:03:32.719 --> 01:03:36.320
Had Adolf and Alos Jr.

01:03:38.239 --> 01:03:39.840
Aloes Hitler Jr.

01:03:40.159 --> 01:03:42.239
was Austrian German.

01:03:43.199 --> 01:03:43.760
There you go.

01:03:44.079 --> 01:03:45.920
So he had did have some German heritage.

01:03:46.480 --> 01:03:47.360
But that seems like a big thing.

01:03:47.519 --> 01:03:49.840
So he was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary.

01:03:50.079 --> 01:03:50.239
Yeah.

01:03:50.559 --> 01:03:54.559
At that time, part of the Austro-German cultural world.

01:03:54.960 --> 01:03:56.000
Yeah, like Adolf.

01:03:56.159 --> 01:03:56.800
Yes.

01:03:57.280 --> 01:03:57.920
Huh.

01:03:58.719 --> 01:04:00.079
Sometimes I don't amazed myself.

01:04:00.320 --> 01:04:01.199
Okay, so anyways.

01:04:01.519 --> 01:04:03.280
William was a devoted father.

01:04:03.519 --> 01:04:07.599
He raised his sons to be upright and private individuals.

01:04:07.840 --> 01:04:08.079
Okay.

01:04:08.239 --> 01:04:18.480
They grew up the Stuart Houston boys and reported learned of their connection to Adolf Hitler, but it was a subject kept strictly within the family.

01:04:18.719 --> 01:04:20.480
So they grew up knowing who they were.

01:04:20.800 --> 01:04:21.360
Sure.

01:04:21.760 --> 01:04:26.639
So the children used the surname Stuart Houston and lived ordinary American lives.

01:04:26.800 --> 01:04:30.800
Their friends and communities were unaware of their lineage.

01:04:35.519 --> 01:04:35.920
Correct.

01:04:36.400 --> 01:04:42.079
They ran a successful landscaping business on Long Island and stayed out of the public eye.

01:04:42.719 --> 01:04:47.840
None of William's four sons ever married or had children.

01:04:48.079 --> 01:04:51.519
Well, I put a put a pin in that.

01:04:51.679 --> 01:04:51.920
Okay.

01:04:52.159 --> 01:04:53.920
The one who died actually was married.

01:04:54.000 --> 01:04:55.360
They did not have any kids.

01:04:55.599 --> 01:04:55.920
Oh.

01:04:56.239 --> 01:04:59.039
The other three surviving never married, never had kids.

01:04:59.199 --> 01:05:01.039
So they they killed the line there?

01:05:01.280 --> 01:05:02.159
They killed the lion.

01:05:02.320 --> 01:05:03.760
At least that side of it.

01:05:03.920 --> 01:05:06.079
Because I'm sure there still could be.

01:05:06.559 --> 01:05:08.880
Yeah, I'm not sure what happened to Heinz Hitler.

01:05:09.119 --> 01:05:12.639
Yeah, because I mean, because Hitler, Hitler never had any kids, correct?

01:05:12.800 --> 01:05:13.039
Correct.

01:05:13.199 --> 01:05:14.079
Because he married Alain.

01:05:14.320 --> 01:05:15.360
Well, did he?

01:05:15.760 --> 01:05:21.599
There's speculation that he might have had bastards, if you will.

01:05:22.239 --> 01:05:23.760
Hitler got around?

01:05:24.320 --> 01:05:24.960
Gross.

01:05:25.199 --> 01:05:26.960
Yeah, that's super gross.

01:05:27.360 --> 01:05:28.719
Do you like my mustache?

01:05:28.800 --> 01:05:29.599
Shall we go to bed?

01:05:29.840 --> 01:05:30.079
Yeah.

01:05:30.559 --> 01:05:31.920
There's rumors that he might have.

01:05:32.320 --> 01:05:32.480
Really?

01:05:32.719 --> 01:05:33.440
I never heard that.

01:05:33.760 --> 01:05:34.159
Interesting.

01:05:34.320 --> 01:05:38.159
Because obviously he married Ava Braun right before they killed each other, or themselves, I should say.

01:05:38.320 --> 01:05:40.320
Yeah, and she did not have any of his children.

01:05:40.559 --> 01:05:44.320
No, there she didn't have time to say it.

01:05:44.559 --> 01:05:46.559
She was kind of a secret in herself.

01:05:46.800 --> 01:05:51.119
But she she was very devoted to she loved her some 80.

01:05:51.280 --> 01:05:53.679
Okay, let me sorry.

01:05:53.920 --> 01:05:57.039
Okay, so none of William's son had kids.

01:05:57.199 --> 01:05:57.599
Yeah.

01:05:57.920 --> 01:06:12.079
So um, according to journalist David Gardner, who researched the family for his 2001 book, The Last of the Hitlers, the brothers had privately quote unquote agreed not to carry on the Hitler bloodline.

01:06:12.800 --> 01:06:16.480
Now, this formal pact was not on paper.

01:06:16.719 --> 01:06:16.960
Sure.

01:06:17.039 --> 01:06:18.000
Why would it be though?

01:06:18.239 --> 01:06:22.400
And the eldest Alexander said that never happened.

01:06:22.639 --> 01:06:23.119
I'm sure.

01:06:23.280 --> 01:06:24.960
Yeah, like we never talked about that.

01:06:25.039 --> 01:06:25.679
It's just what happened.

01:06:25.920 --> 01:06:30.960
It's just like Hill, Hitler never had fucking coffee at Bridget's fucking table.

01:06:31.119 --> 01:06:31.599
Yeah.

01:06:31.840 --> 01:06:34.159
It's just all made up shit.

01:06:34.719 --> 01:06:39.599
So as of now, the three brothers are still alive.

01:06:40.079 --> 01:06:40.559
Oh they really.

01:06:40.800 --> 01:06:42.239
Alexander, Lewis, and Brian.

01:06:42.400 --> 01:06:46.880
Well, I suppose they were born in what you said, 40 something, 65 was the youngest.

01:06:47.280 --> 01:06:49.039
Was it the which one died early?

01:06:49.199 --> 01:06:49.840
Which one which one was?

01:06:50.239 --> 01:06:52.719
Um that one, I think he uh, what was his name?

01:06:52.880 --> 01:06:56.079
Um obviously Alexander's the oldest.

01:06:56.960 --> 01:06:57.920
I scrolled too far.

01:06:58.079 --> 01:06:59.280
Yeah, I'm sorry.

01:06:59.679 --> 01:07:00.719
I asked questions.

01:07:00.960 --> 01:07:06.559
Um, Lewis, okay, Howard Ronald died in um 89, and he was born in 57.

01:07:06.639 --> 01:07:08.000
So 49 to 65.

01:07:08.079 --> 01:07:08.800
Yes were the fourth.

01:07:09.280 --> 01:07:12.559
Oh, he was the second youngest, second to whatever.

01:07:12.800 --> 01:07:13.920
Okay, okay, okay.

01:07:14.079 --> 01:07:15.920
So wow, really, they're still alive though.

01:07:16.000 --> 01:07:16.159
Okay.

01:07:16.320 --> 01:07:16.559
Yes.

01:07:16.719 --> 01:07:17.039
Good for them.

01:07:17.360 --> 01:07:19.920
Because I guess the oldest one would be what in his 80s?

01:07:20.239 --> 01:07:31.519
So there was um there is a picture out there of a journalist walking up to Alexander, the oldest house, and actually having a conversation through his door, and you can see a picture of it.

01:07:31.599 --> 01:07:35.440
I don't remember if I included it or not because I wasn't sure if I wanted to include it or not.

01:07:35.599 --> 01:07:35.840
Sure.

01:07:36.079 --> 01:07:38.880
Because they are they wanted to remain private.

01:07:39.360 --> 01:07:42.559
See, and that that's kind of shitty of someone going up, hey man.

01:07:42.960 --> 01:07:44.719
Yeah, you're related to Hitler.

01:07:44.880 --> 01:07:45.119
Yeah.

01:07:45.280 --> 01:07:46.639
It's like, yeah, I thanks.

01:07:46.880 --> 01:07:47.760
Yeah, like I didn't know.

01:07:48.079 --> 01:07:50.159
I didn't care to pass that on.

01:07:50.400 --> 01:07:56.559
So William Patrick Stewart Houston died July 14th, 1987.

01:07:56.800 --> 01:07:57.280
Oh, wow.

01:07:57.519 --> 01:07:59.840
At his home in New York at the age of 76.

01:08:00.000 --> 01:08:00.320
Okay.

01:08:00.559 --> 01:08:03.280
Cause of death was reported as natural causes.

01:08:03.360 --> 01:08:03.519
Okay.

01:08:03.760 --> 01:08:06.719
He did die suddenly, but it wasn't publicized as anything else.

01:08:06.880 --> 01:08:07.360
Sure.

01:08:07.599 --> 01:08:14.639
Um, he is interred in Long Island, buried right next to his mother, um, Bridget, and they do share a headstone.

01:08:15.760 --> 01:08:22.239
His gravestone um has the name Stuart Houston and offers no correlation to the Hitler name.

01:08:22.479 --> 01:08:23.279
Thank God.

01:08:23.600 --> 01:08:36.239
And um William was remembered as like a quiet, civic-minded neighbor who ran a lab from his home known as Bill Stuart Houston.

01:08:36.960 --> 01:08:40.720
And no one had known that he was born as William Hitler.

01:08:40.960 --> 01:08:41.520
That's crazy.

01:08:41.680 --> 01:08:46.960
Yeah, so that is a story of William Patrick Petty, Hitler Stuart Houston.

01:08:47.439 --> 01:08:49.920
Is his is his wife past as well?

01:08:50.800 --> 01:08:52.000
I don't know.

01:08:52.560 --> 01:08:54.560
I don't know.

01:08:55.279 --> 01:08:58.000
Let me investigate this query question.

01:09:00.720 --> 01:09:02.960
Let me run a query through my computer.

01:09:06.720 --> 01:09:08.640
You're a better typer than me.

01:09:11.279 --> 01:09:11.920
Wow.

01:09:12.640 --> 01:09:13.680
Did you misspell a lot?

01:09:14.000 --> 01:09:15.520
Hilters, not Hillers.

01:09:20.560 --> 01:09:24.880
Phyllis died Oct uh November 2nd, uh 2004.

01:09:25.680 --> 01:09:29.359
Oh, so she was alive for because you said 80 87 he passed?

01:09:29.600 --> 01:09:31.359
27 to 2004, so yeah.

01:09:31.520 --> 01:09:33.439
Yeah, so 17 years passed in.

01:09:33.680 --> 01:09:34.319
So okay.

01:09:34.479 --> 01:09:34.880
Wow.

01:09:35.119 --> 01:09:43.359
So yeah, I don't think I included that picture of the I don't yeah, because it's really they they wanted the privacy, and I just don't want to, yeah.

01:09:43.600 --> 01:09:44.159
No, I get it.

01:09:44.239 --> 01:09:45.680
My ears are sweaty, I'm sorry.

01:09:45.920 --> 01:09:59.279
Um, I'm really glad I um did not get as angry as the last episode because but he also did try to play off his name, just like MLK.

01:09:59.760 --> 01:10:00.960
Yeah, he got better though.

01:10:01.199 --> 01:10:03.840
He I think you would call that growing up.

01:10:04.239 --> 01:10:12.159
He has some redeeming qualities and he fought on the right side and he lived a quiet life and did blood work.

01:10:12.399 --> 01:10:13.119
I mean, good for him.

01:10:13.279 --> 01:10:13.439
Yeah.

01:10:13.600 --> 01:10:14.319
That's what I'm gonna do.

01:10:14.560 --> 01:10:15.680
And raised some awesome kids.

01:10:15.920 --> 01:10:18.159
Apparently, who just killed Hitler's lineage.

01:10:18.479 --> 01:10:18.800
Yeah.

01:10:19.279 --> 01:10:20.640
That gene is dead.

01:10:20.960 --> 01:10:24.000
Yeah, I want to know what happened to Heinz Hitler now.

01:10:24.720 --> 01:10:27.039
Cause that would be what what did I say?

01:10:27.279 --> 01:10:30.319
His his other half right?

01:10:30.560 --> 01:10:30.880
Yeah.

01:10:31.119 --> 01:10:31.520
Right?

01:10:31.760 --> 01:10:34.239
He didn't start a famous catch-up line, did he?

01:10:34.560 --> 01:10:35.520
Let me find out.

01:10:35.680 --> 01:10:36.239
I'm kidding.

01:10:36.319 --> 01:10:37.680
He's really not him.

01:10:39.279 --> 01:10:43.359
Because also Heinz is with a Z, not well, is that how you spell his name?

01:10:43.520 --> 01:10:44.560
H-E-I-N-Z, yeah.

01:10:44.640 --> 01:10:45.199
Heinz Hitler.

01:10:45.520 --> 01:10:45.840
Oh shit.

01:10:45.920 --> 01:10:46.079
Okay.

01:10:46.239 --> 01:10:46.479
Okay.

01:10:46.560 --> 01:10:48.800
It is Adolf Hitler's other nephew.

01:10:49.199 --> 01:10:50.000
Other nephew.

01:10:50.239 --> 01:10:50.479
Yeah.

01:10:50.640 --> 01:10:52.479
So his name is Heinrich Hitler.

01:10:52.560 --> 01:10:54.880
He was born in 1920 in Germany.

01:10:55.119 --> 01:10:57.520
His father is Alos Hitler Jr.

01:10:57.760 --> 01:11:01.279
So it was Alos Jr.'s other wife, his second wife.

01:11:01.520 --> 01:11:03.279
Yeah, Hedwig and Alos Jr.

01:11:03.439 --> 01:11:04.960
had Heinz.

01:11:05.279 --> 01:11:05.520
Okay.

01:11:05.760 --> 01:11:06.159
Yes.

01:11:06.479 --> 01:11:07.760
Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.

01:11:08.159 --> 01:11:11.439
So he did fight um in Germany.

01:11:11.680 --> 01:11:13.039
He was a loyal Nazi.

01:11:13.199 --> 01:11:13.760
Oh, wow.

01:11:14.000 --> 01:11:16.079
An ardent supporter of Adolf Hitler.

01:11:16.239 --> 01:11:17.680
He joined the Hitler Luft.

01:11:18.479 --> 01:11:18.800
Youth?

01:11:19.119 --> 01:11:19.520
Youth.

01:11:19.920 --> 01:11:20.319
Wow.

01:11:20.560 --> 01:11:22.560
Um, and he was an SS officer.

01:11:22.800 --> 01:11:23.279
Oh shit.

01:11:23.520 --> 01:11:29.279
He served in the Weiermark, which is the German army as a signal corps officer.

01:11:29.520 --> 01:11:30.319
Oh, wow.

01:11:30.479 --> 01:11:37.439
Um, in 1942, during the Russian campaign, Heinz was captured by Soviet forces near Moscow.

01:11:37.600 --> 01:11:38.079
Oh, wow.

01:11:38.239 --> 01:11:41.760
And he was interrogated by the Soviet secret police.

01:11:42.000 --> 01:11:42.319
Okay.

01:11:42.960 --> 01:11:46.960
He refused to cooperate or denounce his uncle.

01:11:47.199 --> 01:11:47.680
Sure.

01:11:48.159 --> 01:11:49.359
Even under torture.

01:11:49.600 --> 01:11:51.279
So he was pretty loyal then.

01:11:51.600 --> 01:11:55.199
So he did what Adolf wanted William to do, basically.

01:11:56.000 --> 01:11:56.319
Okay.

01:11:56.640 --> 01:12:01.039
He died in captivity in 1942 at 22 years old.

01:12:01.359 --> 01:12:01.920
Well, there.

01:12:02.079 --> 01:12:03.039
Chop the line off.

01:12:03.279 --> 01:12:07.439
He was the only member of Hitler's immediate family to die fighting for the Third Reich.

01:12:07.760 --> 01:12:09.680
I mean, I kind of feel like Hitler died.

01:12:10.880 --> 01:12:11.680
Hitler.

01:12:13.279 --> 01:12:14.880
I'm joking around.

01:12:16.319 --> 01:12:16.880
So yeah.

01:12:17.199 --> 01:12:18.159
Nazis, am I right?

01:12:18.399 --> 01:12:19.279
Nazis am I right.

01:12:19.600 --> 01:12:21.199
Fucking douche cunts.

01:12:21.680 --> 01:12:22.880
I finished this.

01:12:23.039 --> 01:12:24.720
I ended up liking this quite a bit.

01:12:24.800 --> 01:12:27.760
It's not as great as um Thunderhead.

01:12:28.000 --> 01:12:28.880
Thunder Thunder Punch.

01:12:29.119 --> 01:12:31.439
Thunder Punch from Thunderhead Brewery in Carnie, Nebraska.

01:12:31.840 --> 01:12:34.319
It's also a different, a different thing, too.

01:12:34.479 --> 01:12:35.199
It's a different style.

01:12:35.439 --> 01:12:42.960
I'm pretty sure the Thunder Punch is more of a sour type setup where this is an ale flavored with the grape and everything.

01:12:43.359 --> 01:12:44.560
So ended up liking it.

01:12:44.640 --> 01:12:45.119
Yeah, I did.

01:12:45.279 --> 01:12:45.680
Good for you.

01:12:45.760 --> 01:12:46.319
That's awesome.

01:12:46.560 --> 01:12:49.279
I am really sad I didn't have my third one of this.

01:12:49.520 --> 01:12:51.039
It was rather good.

01:12:51.199 --> 01:12:54.239
Um and I am going to have that now.

01:12:54.479 --> 01:12:54.960
Wonderful.

01:12:55.119 --> 01:12:57.119
So all right, buffoons.

01:12:57.199 --> 01:12:58.479
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01:12:58.880 --> 01:13:02.880
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