1. Stuart-Houston was born William Patrick Hitler in the Toxteth area of Liverpool, England on 12 March 1911 to an Austrian born father Alois Hitler Jr.
24 Facts About William Stuart-Houston
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William Stuart-Houston's father was the older half-brother of Adolf Hitler.
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Unable to rejoin his family due to the outbreak of World War I, he abandoned them, leaving William Stuart-Houston to be brought up only by his mother.
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William Stuart-Houston would be supported by his mother's family in Ireland.
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William Stuart-Houston remarried bigamously, but wrote to Bridget during the mid-1920s to ask her to send William to Germany's Weimar Republic for a visit.
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William Stuart-Houston finally agreed in 1929, when William was 18.
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Heinz, in contrast to William Stuart-Houston, became a committed Nazi, joined the Wehrmacht, and died in Soviet captivity in 1942.
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When William Stuart-Houston was 18 he and his mother moved to North London and settled in Highgate and rented a house located on 26 Priory Gardens.
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William Stuart-Houston joined an apprenticeship as an accountant in an accounting firm called Benham and Sons, however after Hitler rose to power, William Stuart-Houston was fired because of his surname.
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In 1933, encouraged by his mother, William Stuart-Houston travelled back to what had become Nazi Germany in an attempt to make money and benefit from his half-uncle's growing power.
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William Stuart-Houston later worked at the Opel automobile factory as a car salesman in a factory in Russelsheim and later in Berlin where he was hired by Eduard Winter.
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William Stuart-Houston then got arrested in a cafe one day, and when he showed his ID, the officers did not believe that he was related to Hitler and sent him to a prison in Lichterfelde, he was finally released because of the British Embassy.
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The Gestapo forbade William Stuart-Houston from working for two months and later William Stuart-Houston was fired from Opel as the police claimed he was selling cars under the name of Hitler.
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Hitler would not allow William Stuart-Houston to send money to his mother in England who was struggling and needed money.
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William Stuart-Houston then asked his half-uncle for a better job, writing to him with blackmail threats of selling embarrassing stories about the family to the newspapers unless his "personal circumstances" improved.
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William Stuart-Houston later found work at a restaurant in Berlin and continued to work there until 1 January 1939.
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In 1938, Adolf asked William Stuart-Houston to relinquish his British citizenship in exchange for a high-ranking job.
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William Stuart-Houston again tried to blackmail his uncle with threats.
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William Stuart-Houston returned to London, where he wrote the article "Why I Hate My Uncle" for Look magazine.
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William Stuart-Houston was drafted into the United States Navy during World War II as a pharmacist's mate until he was discharged in 1947.
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Alexander works as a social worker, the second oldest child Louis and the youngest child Brian William Stuart-Houston run a landscaping business together.
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Special Agent William Stuart-Houston was buried in Coram, New York.
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William Patrick Stuart-Houston died in Patchogue on 14 July 1987.
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William Stuart-Houston was buried next to his mother's at the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Coram, New York.