William Patrick Stuart-Houston served for three years in the US Navy as a hospital corpsman during World War II. He was awarded a Purple Heart for his services and then moved to New York state. He married a woman named Phyllis, had four children, and ran a successful business that analyzed blood samples for hospitals.
A very typical post World War II story. With one exception: William was born William Hitler, and was Adolf Hitler’s nephew. He did not serve in the US Navy as a spy or Nazi mole; he was openly fighting against his despised and genocidal uncle, Adolf.
How Hitler fought Hitler
William Hitler, Adolf Hitler’s nephew, was born in 1911 in London. He was raised by his mother, an Irishwoman. When William turned 18, he decided to get to know his father, Alois, and moved to Germany, where he spent some time with his father and uncle before returning to England.
William later contacted his uncle about finding some kind of employment in Germany. Adolf arranged for his nephew to take a job at a bank in Berlin. William kept pressuring Adolf to get him a better-paying job, but Adolf declined, trying to avoid any signs of nepotism, and is said to have referred to William as “my loathsome nephew”. William upped the game and threatened to spread lies that Adolf had Jewish blood unless Adolf provided a better job; Adolf offered a high-ranking job in exchange for William giving up his British citizenship. Fearing a trap, William fled to London and published some articles criticizing Adolf Hitler.
William and his mother then accompanied the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst to the US and joined him on a lecture tour, which ended when World War II broke out.
William tried to enlist in the British Army, but they were understandably suspicious of his loyalties and refused. He then tried to enlist in the US Army, with the same result. Horrified by the stories about the Holocaust and the war being waged in Europe and against Great Britain by his very own uncle, William wrote directly to the President of the United States, President Roosevelt, begging for permission to enlist in the US Army.
The appeal to the president worked, and William became a Navy hospital corpsman. He helped treat injured soldiers on the front lines, and during one heroic rescue of injured soldiers, he himself was injured, for which he was awarded the Purple Heart.
William’s first day on duty was marked by a treasured exchange he was fond of telling for the rest of his life. His induction officer asked him his name, to which he replied “Hitler”. Not missing a beat, the officer replied “Nice to meet you, Hitler. I’m Hess.”
A Brief Overview of Adolf Hitler’s Family
Adolf Hitler’s father, Alois, married a woman named Anna and also had a long-term girlfriend Franziska. Franziska gave birth to Alois’s son, also named Alois. After Anna died, the senior Alois married Franziska and she gave birth to his daughter, Angela.
The senior Alois started an affair with a 16-year-old servant girl in their household, Klara, who was the granddaughter of the senior Alois’s step-uncle, who is thought to have been either the senior Alois’s biological father or uncle. This means Klara was closely biologically related to the senior Alois.
Franziska died while quite young, and Klara cared for Alois’s two children, junior Alois and Angela. Klara got pregnant and senior Alois obtained special permission to marry her from the Pope (legally it was prohibited due to their close biological relationship). After the marriage, Alois and Klara had three children, all of whom died in infancy, before giving birth to Adolf Hitler.
Adolf’s older brother, Alois junior, married an Irishwoman named Bridget and they lived in London, where they produced a son, William, who is the hero of our story. In the meantime, Alois junior left his wife and moved back to Germany, where he illegally married a second wife and had another son, Heinz, who became a Nazi and died in Soviet captivity during WWII.
