DID the Führer HAVE A SON?

Adolf Hitler did not have any descendants. At least that has been the conventional wisdom ever since his death in 1945. And yet there is some evidence of a cover-up…

February 9, 1935: As she often did, 20-year-old Unity Mitford is sitting in her heartthrob’s favorite restaurant, staring longingly at him from a nearby table without his even noticing. But suddenly the owner appears before her and tells her something she had been yearning to hear: “The Führer would like to have a word with you.” During the four years that followed, the Englishwoman would meet Adolf Hitler 140 times, gaining access to the Nazi regime’s highest echelons. Mitford became a fanatical National Socialist herself, appearing at Nazi rallies and sharing her dreams of an Anglo-german alliance with Hitler. There were even rumors of marriage. But everything came to an abrupt end on September 3, 1939, when Britain declared war on Germany in response to Hitler invading Poland. Later that day Mitford shot herself in the head in Munich’s English Garden. She survived the suicide attempt but was an invalid until her death in 1948.

But the story has an even stranger twist. In 2007 British journalist Martin Bright received an intriguing phone call. The caller said her mother had run a maternity home in Oxfordshire during the war and that Unity Mitford had been a patient at that home in 1940 and gave birth to a son who was given up for adoption right after birth. There was speculation that Hitler was the father and had sent the pregnant Mitford home to England for the birth. When approached by the journalist, Mitford’s sole surviving sister denied there was any truth to the story and said her mother’s diary would prove it. Virtually no one was interested in verifying the story—not in Mitford’s family nor in the British government. Family members had married well and prominently, with two of Unity’s sisters marrying nephews of prime ministers. But there was a serious concern that Hitler’s son, if he had survived, could somehow fall into the hands of neo-nazis and become a successor to his infamous father. Unity never mentioned having a son, and she took the truth to her grave. Her family still denies the existence of a man who may well be alive today.