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40 Fascinating Facts About the Relatives of Nazis After WWII

Khalid Elhassan March 14, 2019 24 min

27. One of Hitler’s Grandnephews Was Engaged to a Jew

Alexander Stuart-Houston in his youth. The Daily Mirror

In 2018, William Patrick Hitler’s son, Alexander Stuart-Houston, revealed in an interview with the German magazine Bild, that one of his brothers had once been engaged to a Jewish woman. Alexander did not disclose which one of his siblings he was talking about, nor did he identify the Jewish woman whom he had planned to marry. The marital plans came to naught, however, when the woman discovered the family’s dark history. Understandably, she decided against marrying into Hitler’s family.

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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.