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40 Fascinating Facts About the Relatives of Nazis After WWII

Khalid Elhassan March 14, 2019 24 min

28. Hitler’s Last Surviving Relatives Settled in Long Island

William Patrick Stuart-Houston, ne Hitler. Geni

After the war, William Patrick Hitler changed his last name to Stuart-Houston, married, and settled in Long Island, NY. There, he opened a medical laboratory, which analyzed blood samples for area hospitals. He strove for anonymity and avoided drawing attention to his family history. He died in 1987, survived by four sons. Three of his sons never married, and the one who did died in a car accident, leaving behind no children, giving rise to rumors of a pact to end the Hitler bloodline. However, as one of William Patrick’s sons put it, things just ended up that way, without any deliberate design.

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Khalid Elhassan

A lifelong history buff, I developed a particular passion for WW2 history as a child, when I spent hours listening to my grandfather, enraptured, as he recounted his wartime experiences in the British East African Campaign and with the British 8th Army in North Africa.

I graduated with a history BA from George Mason University, then went on to get a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. After lawyering for a decade, I moved to sunny Rio de Janeiro and a less demanding career, opening a tourism agency in Copacabana.

A big chunk of my free time is spent blogging (you can follow me on Quora https://www.quora.com/profile/Khalid-Elhassan ) or freelance writing, mostly about my favorite subject, history.