William Patrick Stuart - Houston William Patrick " Willy " Stuart - Houston ( " né " Hitler ) ( March 12 , 1911 – July 14 , 1987 ) was the nephew of Adolf Hitler . Born to Adolf ' s half - brother , Alois Hitler , Jr . , and his first wife , Bridget Dowling in Liverpool , William later moved to Germany and subsequently escaped , eventually going to the United States , where he enlisted to fight in World War II . Early life . William Patrick Hitler was born in Liverpool , the son of Alois Hitler Jr . and his Irish - born wife Bridget Dowling . They met in Dublin when Alois was living there in 1909 ; they married in Marylebone and moved back north to Liverpool , where William was born in 1911 . The family lived in a flat at 102 Upper Stanhope Street , which was destroyed in the last German air raid of the Liverpool Blitz on January 10 , 1942 . Dowling wrote a manuscript called " My Brother - in - Law Adolf " , in which she says Adolf Hitler moved to Liverpool with her and Alois , remaining from November 1912 to April 1913 , in order to dodge conscription in Austria . In 1914 , Alois left Bridget and their son for a gambling tour of Europe . Alois later returned to Germany . Unable to reconnect due to the outbreak of World War I , Alois abandoned the family , leaving William to be brought up by his mother . He remarried bigamously , but re - established contact in the mid - 1920s when he wrote to Bridget asking her to send William to Weimar Republic ' s Germany for a visit . She finally agreed in 1929 , when William was 18 . Alois had since had another son by his German wife , Heinz Hitler , who , in contrast to William , became a committed Nazi and was later tortured to death in Soviet captivity . In Nazi Germany . In 1933 , William Patrick Hitler returned to Germany in an attempt to benefit from his uncle ' s rise to power . His uncle found him a job in a bank . Later , William worked at an Opel automobile factory , and later still as a car salesman . Dissatisfied with these jobs , William persisted in asking his uncle for a better job , writing to him with blackmail threats that he would sell embarrassing stories about the family to the newspapers . In 1938 , Adolf Hitler asked William to relinquish his British citizenship in exchange for a high - ranking job . Expecting a trap , William fled Nazi Germany ; he again tried to blackmail his uncle with threats . This time , William threatened to tell the press that Hitler ' s alleged paternal grandfather was actually a Jewish merchant . Returning to London he wrote an article for " Look " magazine titled " Why I Hate my Uncle . " However William did return , briefly , to Germany in 1938 , possibly as a British agent . William ' s role in Germany in the late 1930s is unsubstantiated . William , perhaps thinking his cover was blown , fled Germany in January 1939 with the help of a British agent . Soon after , William and his mother went to the United States on a lecture tour at the invitation of the publisher William Randolph Hearst . William and his mother were stranded there when World War II broke out . After making a special request to President Franklin D . Roosevelt , William was cleared to join the U . S . Navy in 1944 , and moved to Sunnyside , Queens in New York . According to a story circulating after his enlistment , when he went to the draft office and introduced himself , the recruiting officer supposedly replied , " Glad to see you , Hitler . My name ' s Hess . " Later life . William Patrick Hitler served in the U . S . Navy as a Pharmacist ' s Mate ( a designation later changed to Hospital Corpsman ) until he was discharged in 1947 . He had been wounded in service during the course of World War II . After leaving the Navy , William changed his last name to Stuart - Houston , married , and moved to Patchogue , Long Island , where he and his wife had four sons . Stuart - Houston built upon his medical training to establish a business that analyzed blood samples for hospitals . His laboratory , which he called Brookhaven Laboratories , was located in his home , a two - story clapboard house at 71 Silver Street , Patchogue . Stuart - Houston was married to Phyllis Jean - Jacques , who was born in Germany sometime in the mid - 1920s ( she died in 2004 ) . After their relationship had begun , William , Phyllis , and Bridget tried for some anonymity in the United States . William and Phyllis married in 1947 , and they had their first son , Alexander Adolf , in 1949 . They had three more sons : Louis ( b . 1951 ) , Howard Ronald ( 1957 - 1989 ) , and Brian William ( b . 1965 ) . William died on July 14 , 1987 in Patchogue , New York , and his remains were buried alongside those of his mother , Bridget , at the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Coram , New York . Phyllis died on November 2 , 2004 . Howard Ronald Stuart - Houston , a Special Agent with the Criminal Investigation Division of the Internal Revenue Service , died in an automobile accident on September 14 , 1989 having fathered no children . Howard Ronald is buried in the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Coram , New York . Though none of the brothers has children , Alexander , now a social worker , has said that he knows of no sort of pact to intentionally end the Hitler bloodline . This is addressed due to speculation that such an agreement had been made . In the media . The family ' s story and Bridget ' s memoirs were first published by Michael Unger in the " Liverpool Daily Post " , 1973 . Beryl Bainbridge ' s 1978 novel " Young Adolf " depicts the alleged 1912 – 13 visit to his Liverpool relatives by a 23 - year - old Adolf Hitler . Bainbridge adapted the story into a play as " The Journal of Bridget Hitler " with director Philip Saville , which was broadcast as a " Playhouse " ( BBC 2 ) in 1981 . Unger also edited Bridget Dowling ' s memoirs , which were first published as " The Memoirs of Bridget Hitler " in 1979 ; a completely updated version , titled " The Hitlers of Liverpool " , was published in 2011 . Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell ' s 1989 comic book " The New Adventures of Hitler " is likewise based on the Liverpool visit . It sparked controversy in the early 1990s and has not been reprinted . In October 2005 , The History Channel aired a one - hour documentary entitled " Hitler ' s Family " , in which William Patrick Hitler is prominently profiled along with other relatives of Adolf Hitler . In April 2006 , " Little Willy " , a play by Mark Kassen examining the life of William Patrick Hitler , opened at the Ohio Theater in New York before moving on to the West End in London .