Did you know that 3 of Adolf Hitler’s cousins live quietly in Long Island New York. None of them have children and it is rumored that they refuse to have children so the family line with die with them.
The Long Island landscaper peeked out the door. It was another visitor arriving with a notebook, a press pass and the H-word on his lips, another journalist asking about his great-uncle Adolf.
William Patrick Hitler, 28, arriving in America with his mother in 1939.
The house in Patchogue in Suffolk County, where the son of Hitler’s half-brother raised four sons quietly.
Some of William Patrick Hitler’s blood lab gear.
The visitor asked the landscaper about his father, who was born William PatrickHitler, son of Alois Hitler Jr., who was Adolf Hitler’s half-brother (they shared the same father). Alois called his son Willy. The Führer called Willy “my loathsome nephew.”
Willy Hitler was born in 1911 in Liverpool, and in his early years occasionally sought to take advantage of his last name, in England, Germany and then America, where he moved in 1939. After World War II, though, he decided to change the name and moved from New York City out to Patchogue on Long Island. He raised four sons — Alexander, Louis, Howard and Brian — before he died in 1987 at age 76.
Howard died in a car accident in 1989. The other brothers continued low-profile jobs, Alexander as a social worker, Louis and Brian with their own landscaping business. They are regular Long Island guys, middle-aged and middle class, two of them living together. They are also the last members of Adolf Hitler’s paternal bloodline.
They have moved away from the two-story clapboard house where they grew up on Silver Street in Patchogue, where their father ran a diagnostic blood lab. To their former neighbors in Patchogue, much about them and their upbringing seemed all-American — even aggressively so — but some of those neighbors remember a family just a little bit apart from everyone else, speaking German at home, and a patriarch with the slightest, just the slightest, resemblance to a certain dark figure in history.
A new play, “Little Willy,” based on their father’s life is playing this month in Manhattan, and when a reporter went to the cabin shared by Louis and Brian to ask their reaction, Louis, as the other brothers had, declined to be interviewed. He said they would soon be telling their story themselves. “Why would we talk to someone else when we’re writing our own book?” he said. “We have a lawyer and an agent.”
Would the book address the intriguing stories that have circulated about them in this part of Long Island for decades? Did Willy really blackmail Uncle Adolf with information suggesting that the Führer could be half-Jewish? Did one of Willy’s sons really have the middle name Adolf? Since all four brothers were childless, was it because of a pact to end the Hitler bloodline?
Louis didn’t answer, saying he did not want to discuss his family.
Willy Hitler’s family on Long Island is a fascinating family narrative, and scraps can be gleaned from the occasional news article. The cover of a 2001 book, “The Last of the Hitlers,” displays each brother’s high school yearbook picture over Hitler’s face and suggests that the brothers made a pact not to have children.
3 of Adolf Hitler's cousins live quietly in Long Island New York. None of them have children and it is rumored that they refuse to have children so the family line with die with them
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