Hitler’s nephew was going to marry a Jewish girl – but then she discovered his dark secret
One of the last relatives of Adolf Hitler was to marry a Jewish woman but the engagement fell through when she learnt of his shocking family history, it has been revealed.
Alexander, Brian and Louis Stuart-Houston are the last surviving great-nephews of the nazi dictator and have spent their lifetimes concealing their controversial lineage from the world.
In his first newspaper interview in more than a decade, Alexander, the oldest of the brothers, and whose middle name is Adolf, broke his silence to say rumours the trio agreed to remain unmarried and childless so the Hitler line would die with them were ‘b******t’.
He revealed that one of the brothers, who he would not name, had in fact planned to marry his Jewish girlfriend, but the relationship soured when she learnt of the family’s history.
Alexander’s denial of any pact between them runs contrary to comments he made to the British journalist David Gardner in 2002 in which he said that his brothers may Family history: Alexander’s brothers Louis, left, and Brian have made an agreement without Patchogue, Long Island, where his knowledge. they all live, know nothing of
He said: ‘Maybe my other two their unusual family tree. brothers did [make a pact], Their father, William Hitler – but I never did.’ who Alexander described as ‘a
A fourth brother, Howard, good man’ – was the Fuhrer’s who worked as a tax inspector, nephew. Their grandfather was was married to a woman called Alois Hitler, half-brother to Marie, but died in a car accident Adolf, who married an Irishwoman on Long Island in 1989. he had met while working
He had reportedly been as a waiter in Dublin. determined to start a family, It is a secret the brothers but it is not thought he had have guarded closely all their any children. lives, declining media interviews
Most of the brothers’ neighbours and even shelving plans in the small town of for their own book. ‘We discussed it and changed our minds,’ Alexander, 68, a retired psychotherapist, told Bild, the German newspaper.
‘We won’t do it. not for all the money in the world’.
Their father, who was born in Liverpool and known as Willy, ended up moving to the US. He even joined the navy and fought against the Germans – Hitler against Hitler was a coup for American propaganda.
After the war he withdrew to Long Island with his German wife, Phyllis, trying to spare his four sons the curse of the family name. In 1946 it became Hiller, and later Stuart-Houston – the name now used by Alexander and his brothers.
The Mail revealed yesterday that Alexander is a staunch Republican, like his brothers, but does not approve of Donald Trump, who he called a ‘liar’.
He told Bild: ‘Some things that Trump says are all right … It’s his manner that annoys me. And I just don’t like liars.’