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Sun Jan 5, 2020, 08:52 PM Jan 2020

Drunk History: Nephew Willie Hitler Sticks It To His Uncle Adolph



..(Wiki) Immigration to the United States: In January 1939 the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst brought him [Willie] and his mother to the United States for a lecture tour. He and his mother were stranded when World War II broke out. After making a special request to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, William was eventually cleared to join the United States Navy in 1944; he moved to Sunnyside, Queens in New York.
William Patrick Hitler was drafted into the United States Navy during World War II as a Pharmacist's Mate (a designation later changed to Hospital Corpsman) until he was discharged in 1947. On reporting for duty, the induction officer asked his name. "Hitler," he replied. "Glad to see you, Hitler," the officer replied, thinking Hitler was joking. "My name's Hess." He was wounded in action during the war and awarded the Purple Heart.

Later life: After being discharged from the Navy, William Hitler changed his surname to "Stuart-Houston," a reference to Houston Stewart Chamberlain who had been one of Adolf Hitler's role models. In 1947, Stuart-Houston married Phyllis Jean-Jacques, who had been born in Germany in the mid-1920s. After their relationship began, William and Phyllis, along with Bridget, tried to live a life of anonymity in the United States.
They moved to Patchogue, Long Island, where William used his medical training to establish a business that analyzed blood samples for hospitals. His laboratory, which he called Brookhaven Laboratories (no relation to Brookhaven National Laboratory), was located in his home, a two-story clapboard house at 71 Silver Street, Patchogue. The couple had four sons: Alexander Adolf (b. 1949), Louis (b. 1951), Howard Ronald (1957–1989), and Brian William (b. 1965).
William Stuart-Houston died on 14 July 1987, in Patchogue...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stuart-Houston

Patchogue, Long Island..
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