OR WHAT COUNTRY WE LOST!
“Formally, I didn’t have an article, the article was German, without charges, and this meant an indefinite sentence. But the Gulag is the Gulag - bars, dogs, everything as it should be. (...)
My detachment—about a thousand people—lost half of its strength in the first year, and every day ten people died. At the very beginning, those who were included in the detachment lived under a canopy without walls, and the frost in the Northern Urals was 30-40 degrees!
They worked at a brick factory. I was lucky that I didn’t end up in a logging camp or a coal mine, but still half of our people at the brick factory died of hunger and overwork. I survived by chance, like everything in this world by chance.".
From the memoirs of academician Rauschenbach.
The deportation of the Volga Germans was only a rehearsal for a series of deportations of “traitor peoples”, Tatars, Greeks, Bulgarians, Chechens, Balkars, etc., in 1944. Living conditions for them were no better. The notorious “fifth count” was the only fault of all these citizens of the USSR.
Top photo: William Patrick Hitler takes the oath of enlistment into the US Navy in 1944.
William Patrick Hitler was the son of Adolf Hitler's half-brother Alois and his first wife Bridget Dowling. The parents met in Dublin while Alois was living there in 1909. Later they moved to Liverpool, where William was born in 1911. In 1933, William Patrick Hitler came to Germany in an attempt to take advantage of his uncle's influence. Adolf Hitler helped him get a job at a bank. Later, William Patrick got a job at the Opel automobile plant, and then worked as a car salesman. Dissatisfied with his situation, he wrote to Hitler that he would sell stories about his family to newspapers if the Fuhrer did not help him in his career.
In 1938, Adolf Hitler asked William to renounce his British citizenship in exchange for a high-profile job. It is possible that William was a careerist, but he was certainly not crazy. He had no intention of changing his British citizenship. He didn’t give a damn about his career in Nazi Germany and fled home to London. In 1939, William and his mother traveled to the United States at the invitation of William Randolph Hearst's publisher, and they were stuck there as the Second World War began. world war. After a special request to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, William was allowed to serve in the US Navy in 1944.
Forty-eight combat missions on the “Flying Fortress” were carried out over European battlefields by US Army Captain Werner Goering, who was born in the USA and still lives today. Is your name familiar? Yes, yes! He's the one! Dear nephew of Reichsmarshal Goering! The same one! Werner Goering was born and raised in Salt Lake City. That is, unlike William Hitler, he is a natural US citizen. By the way, he turns 90 this year. Here he is in the photo, far right:
It would be unfair of me not to mention cases of oppression of US citizens because of this very “fifth column” during the war years. America is still largely a racist country, and even more so in those years. So: hundreds of thousands of US citizens of Japanese descent were interned in special camps. True, it is impossible to compare the conditions in which they were kept with the living conditions of the Soviet “traitors”. Is it enough that the internees lived in the camps as families? During this time, according to the History Channel, over 200 people died in the camps. 26 people were shot dead by guards in 1942 while trying to escape.
The rest are from illness and old age.
Of course it's not pretty. But, comparing with the numbers of Volga Germans killed only on the road... I wrote a little more about this some time ago. There are also illustrations.
P.S. I almost forgot! The commander of the Anglo-American forces during the landing of troops in Normandy on June 6, 1944 was also German. His name was Dwight Eisenhower. Subsequently, President of the United States, if my memory serves me correctly.
Eighteen-year-old Irishwoman Bridget Dowling, born in Dublin, came with her father to the Dublin Horse Show to look at the horses and have fun. And who would have thought that on this very day she would meet her fate here. It so happened that a young man named Alois wandered into this same show.
Well, what’s special here, you ask, our dear readers. Here's what. This young man's last name was Hitler. Yes, that's right. Alois Hitler! Adolf's brother! You ask, what was he doing in a distant country? The answer is simple and ridiculously banal. Worked as a kitchen helper at the Shelburne Hotel. Yes, yes, in that very hotel near Stephen Green Square.
But, of course, having met an interesting and wealthy girl, he introduced himself to her as a traveling hotel owner. A romance began and after some time the couple moved to London. Bridget's father accused Alois of kidnapping, but soon reconciled, listening to his daughter's requests for forgiveness. The couple got married and the father simply had no choice but to bless their union.
After living on Charin Cross Road in London for about a year, the family moved to Liverpool, where their only son Patrick was born in 1911. Already in 1914, dad left for Germany, where he opened a small business. Bridget refused to go with him and remained in England, because Alois, who had a rather violent disposition, often beat her. And little Patrick suffered cruelly from his unbalanced father. By the way, he was just as possessed as his uncle...
The house where they lived was subsequently destroyed during a Nazi air raid on Liverpool. Several years passed. Patrick grew up and he had to somehow start earning a living. And his family ties with Hitler seriously prevented him from living in Britain. He subsequently wrote about this in his articles.
In 1933, William Patrick Hitler came to Germany in an attempt to take advantage of his uncle's influence. Adolf Hitler helped him get a job at the Reich Credit Bank in Berlin. The place was not bad, but something didn’t work out there. Later, William Patrick got a job at the Opel automobile plant, and then worked as a car salesman. Most likely, the guy expected a little more from his uncle.
Dissatisfied with his situation, he wrote to Hitler that he would sell stories about his family to newspapers if the Fuhrer did not help him in his career. But, of course, Uncle Fuhrer would also like to make some changes in the fate of his nephew. In 1938, Adolf Hitler asked William to renounce his British citizenship in exchange for a high-profile job. Frightened by the trap, William decided to leave Nazi Germany, and then began to blackmail Adolf Hitler, threatening to write in the press that Hitler's grandfather was a Jew.
Returning to London, he wrote an article for Look magazine, "Why I Hate My Uncle." In 1939, William Patrick and his mother traveled to the United States at the invitation of publisher William Randolph Hearst, and they were stranded there when World War II began. The young man did not want to sit in the rear during the fighting. After a special request to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1944, Briton William Patrick Hitler was allowed to serve in the US Navy.
It was rumored that when he arrived at the regimental office for duty, the officer told him, “Happy to see you, Hitler.” William Patrick Hitler served in the US Navy as a pharmacist's mate until 1947. In essence, the war was already coming to an end, but nevertheless, the nephew managed to remain in service for about a year. And fight against his uncle. He was seriously wounded while serving in World War II.
He really didn’t like that those around him, hearing his last name, instantly associated him with his uncle the Fuhrer. And people’s reaction was clear. This was the name of the enemy. Therefore, William Patrick changed his last name to Stewart-Houston, got married in 1947 and moved to Long Island, New York. Already living in the States, William Patrick founded his business there. He had a small private laboratory in which he processed blood tests for hospitals. His laboratory, which he called Brookhaven, was located in his two-story home at 71 Silver Street, Patchogue.
William died on July 14, 1987, in Patchogue, New York, and his remains were buried next to his mother, Bridget, in Holy Sepulcher Cemetery in Coram, New York.
Here's the story. Seventy years have passed since the Victory over Nazi Germany. Seventy long years. Much has changed since then. Many participants in World War II have long been dead. But memories last for generations. And sometimes, walking around Dublin past the same Shelburne Hotel, I think, wow, what a complicated thing life is. Who would have thought that within these walls the brother of that same possessed Fuhrer once worked as a simple kitchen porter. And his son, Hitler’s nephew, will hate his uncle and go to war against him in American army. This is the connection between times and generations. And yet I would like the current generation to remember those terrible pages of human history. I remembered and would try to prevent wars...
In addition to world-famous historical episodes, the biography of Adolf Hitler is replete with interesting details that are revealed over time. For example, few people know that during World War II one of Hitler’s relatives fought on the side of the Americans.
We are talking about William Patrick Hitler. He was born in Liverpool in 1911 to an Irish mother, Bridget Dowling, and a German, Alois Hitler Jr., Adolf's half-brother.
According to Dowling's memoirs, the future dictator even lived with them for some time in England in 1912, although, according to a number of historians and experts, these memoirs are not convincing enough.
Having failed in the restaurant and hotel business, Alois Hitler Jr. decided to return to his homeland in 1914 in search of income. His wife refused to go with him and chose to move to London with her son. William Patrick lived with his mother until he was 18 years old, after which he went to his father in Germany. After some time, Adolf Hitler became chancellor, as a result of which the young man found himself in an advantageous position.
But William was ambitious and wanted more: to become part of the Nazi elite. For this reason, according to some sources, he began to blackmail Adolf by making it public that he was the grandson of the Jewish merchant Leopold Frankenberger. The Chancellor was ready to give in to his demands, but in return demanded that he renounce British citizenship. Other accounts claim that both Adolf and Alois turned their backs on William, preventing him from succeeding in Germany. Be that as it may, the impending war led the young man to return to England, where he wrote an article for Look magazine entitled “Why I Hate My Uncle.”
In 1939, he boarded a ship and went to the USA to start new life. In 1942, he submitted an application to enlist in the Navy. At first he was refused, but in 1944 he achieved his goal by passing an FBI check. He did not take part in hostilities and after the war changed his name to William Stuart-Houston. It seems he was never able to completely forget about his past. He married a German woman named Phyllis, with whom he had four children. The first was named Alexander Adolf. He died in 1987 at the age of 76.
The Second World War ended almost 70 years ago, but humanity will not forget about it soon. The largest global military conflict in history resulted in millions of lives and destroyed families for the participating countries, not to mention material losses.
Most of the responsibility for all this lies with the main Nazi criminal of all times - Adolf Hitler. It is known that the Fuhrer had no direct heirs, and currently the fate of his family is in the hands of the five surviving family members: Peter Raubal and Heiner Hochegger, two grandchildren of Adolf's sister Angela, and three descendants of the Fuhrer's nephew William Patrick Stewart-Houston - Alexander , Louis and Brian.
Peter is now 82 years old, he was born in the Austrian city of Linz and is there to this day, he worked as an engineer before his retirement. Heiner Hohegger, 68, lives in Düsseldorf, and the Stewart-Houston brothers were born and raised in the United States. Although all the descendants of the leader of the National Socialist Party are older people (the youngest of them, Brian Stewart-Houston, is 45 years old), none of them have children and, most likely, will not have children - the Fuhrer’s closest relatives agreed that his family should stop at them.
It must be said that the Stewart-Houstons, Hochegger and Raubal are not direct descendants of Hitler - the first descend from Adolf's half-brother Alois Hitler Jr., and Hochegger and Raubal from the Fuhrer's elder half-sister Angela, thus they have a common great-grandfather - Alois Hitler -senior.
The head of the Third Reich did not leave any children, and his closest relatives, in particular his nephew William Patrick Hitler, who changed his last name to Stewart-Houston in 1947, tried to either use him high position for personal gain, or blackmailed and slandered if it was not possible to obtain benefits. William even managed to fight a little against his uncle: since 1944, he served in the US Navy as a medic.
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In the photo: William Patrick Hitler takes the oath as an orderly in Navy USA. San Francisco. USA. 1944
Biography
William Patrick Hitler was born in Liverpool. He was the son of Adolf Hitler's half-brother Alois and his first wife Bridget Dowling (Irish). The parents met in Dublin while Alois was living there in 1909. Later they moved to Liverpool, where William was born in 1911. The family lived in a flat at 102 Upper Stanhope Street, which was destroyed in the last German air raid on Liverpool on 10 January 1942.
In 1914, William's father returned to Germany, but Bridget refused to go with him. In Germany, William's father married again. From this marriage his half-brother Heinz Hitler was born. In 1929, when William was 18 years old, he visited his father in Germany. In the end, the father was convicted of bigamy in Hamburg. After prison, he returned to England to Bridget.
In Nazi Germany
In 1933, William Patrick Hitler came to Germany in an attempt to take advantage of his uncle's influence. Adolf Hitler helped him get a job at a bank. Later, William Patrick got a job at the Opel automobile plant, and then worked as a car salesman. Dissatisfied with his situation, he wrote to Hitler that he would sell stories about his family to newspapers if the Fuhrer did not help him in his career.
In 1938, Adolf Hitler asked William to renounce his British citizenship in exchange for a high-profile job. Frightened by the trap, William decided to leave Nazi Germany, and then began to blackmail Adolf Hitler, threatening to write in the press that Hitler's grandfather was a Jew. Returning to London, he wrote the article "Why I Hate My Uncle"
In 1939, William and his mother traveled to the United States at the invitation of publisher William Randolph Hearst, and they were stranded there when World War II began. After a special request to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, William was allowed to serve in the US Navy in 1944.
Life after the war
William Patrick Hitler served in the US Navy as a corpsman until 1947. He was wounded in service during World War II. After completing his service, William Patrick changed his last name to Stewart-Houston, married in 1947, and moved to Long Island, New York.
Stewart-Houston was married to Phyllis Jean-Jacques (d. November 2, 2004), who was born in Germany in 1923 or 1925. Their first son, Alexander, was born in 1949. They later had three more sons, Louis (b. 1951), Howard Ronald (b. 1957, d. 1989), and Brian William (1965).
Stewart-Houston had own business, analyzed blood samples for hospitals. His laboratory, which he called Brookhaven, was located in his two-story home at 71 Silver Street, Patchogue.
William died on July 14, 1987, in Patchogue, New York, and his remains were buried next to his mother, Bridget, in Holy Sepulcher Cemetery in Coram, New York.
Children
Howard Ronald Stewart-Huston was a special agent with the Internal Revenue Service's Criminal Investigation Division. Died in a car accident on September 14, 1989. Howard Ronald is buried in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher Cemetery in Coram, New York.
None of William's children had children of their own. Alexander, now a social worker, said he was not aware of an agreement between the brothers not to continue the Hitler bloodline.
