Relatives of Adolf Hitler hide under false names in NY for over 50 years

Author: markw  //  Category: People

Photo Credit
For more than five decades, scores of historians and academics had been searching in vain for any clues that would solve one of the untold mysteries of the Second World War: whatever happened to the English Hitler?

After a difficult childhood in England, a spell in Germany before the war, and a tour of duty as a US seaman fighting with the Allies during the war, the burden of his name simply became too much. William Patrick Hitler adopted a double-barrelled surname and dropped out of sight in 1946, creating a new life for himself a world away from the horror of the Holocaust. More

Sphere: Related Content

Tags: , , , , ,

Leave a Reply