Does the Hitler family name still survive?

Have the surviving relatives (or even non-relatives bearing the same name) of Adolph Hitler kept the name that has become synonymous with evil throughout the world. It occurs to me that the only time I have ever heard the name Hitler, it was in reference to Adolph. How about the families with names like Goebels, Mengele etc. Have these people tried to disassociate themselves from these infamous monsters?

Thanks,

name) of Adolph Hitler kept the name that has become synonymous with evil throughout the world. It occurs to me that the only time I have ever heard the name Hitler, it was in reference to Adolph. How about the families with names like Goebels, Mengele etc. Have these people tried to disassociate themselves from these infamous monsters?

Thanks, Vance

There is a recently published book, which I haven't read yet, by journalist David Gardner (search under that name at Amazon.co.uk etc.) called The Last of the Hitler's. Here's a summary of a documentary based on the book:

There is a book published recently , which I haven't read yet, by journalist David Gardner (search under that name at Amazon.co.uk etc.) called 'The Last of the Hitler's'. Here's a summary of a documentary based on the book:

A year or two ago, the Wall Street Journal had a story about a Hitler who lived, as I recall, on Long Island, and who was trying to claim the royalties of Mein Kampf. Possibly this was the son or grandson of William Patrick Hitler, the black-sheep (well....) nephew of Hitler, who left Germany in 1938.

His father was a half-brother of Adolf's; his mother was Bridget Hitler, who wrote 'The Memoirs of Bridget Hitler' in 1979.

There were several other siblings and half-siblings, so there is no question that the family survives, though probably some members found it advisable to change their surname.

all the best

I remember reading, decades ago in a US service magazine of WWII vintage, of a US Navy petty officer with the Hitler surname. When asked about changing it, he replied TTE that 'the other guy should change -his- name.'

That's a healthy attitude.

Ed Frank

I have a book 'Hitler's Children' by Gerald Posner (William Heinemann, 1991). The author interviews the surviving children of many of the Nazi leaders. I haven't read it for some years, but in it the children discuss their life during the war and how they feel about it now.

Chris W

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There was supposedly a nephew of AH in the US Navy in WWII. Pity he didn't join the Army. They could have made him a Corporal. On the other hand that sort of thing has a bad precedent

This was apparently William Patrick, the son of Adolph's half brother Alois. William was born in Liverpool to Alois and his Irish born wife.

Channel 5 TV in the UK broadcast a documentary about the family at the begining of February, based on a book published recently. Details from Amazon are :

The Last of the Hitlers David Gardner

Hardcover - 203 pages (15 December, 2001) BMM; ISBN: 0954154401

'Book Description At the end of World War II, the man Adolf Hitler called 'my loathsome nephew' changed his name and disappeared. Despite efforts by historians and academics anxious to peer into the psyche of the most infamous dictator of the 20th century, the British born William Patrick Hitler, by then settled in the USA, remained anonymousuntil now.

William Patrick's story so fascinated British journalist David Gardner that he spent years attempting to find the last relative to bear the Hitler name. Gardner found that William Patrick died before the search started, but that his four sons had established a pact that, in order for Adolf Hitler's genes to die with them, none of them would have children.

This book, which contains previously unpublished FBI files and interviews with the surviving blood relatives, is not just a history of the family, it is also the story of Gardners dedicated search.'

Fascinating stuff!

Has the House Dzhugashvilii rejected the legacy of its most (in)famous

What do you think, hhhhhhhheyyyyyyyyyyyyy?