Did Adolf Hitler have a brother?
Hitler had a half brother (same father, different mothers) named Alois Hitler, Jr. His son William Hitler (Adolph’s nephew) ended up in the US and served in the Navy during WWII. William’s descendants are still around but live in anonymity and reportedly at least some of them have agreed not to have children in order for the line to die out. Sources: http://www.news24.com/News24/Entertainment/Abroad/0,,2-1225-1243_1751426,00.
Seriously, he had three brothers, Gustav, Otto and Edmund but they all idied in childhood. He had one step brother Alois (born in 1882) and one step-sister, Angela (1883-1949) from his father’s previous marriage. according to About.com Interestingly, Hitler’s half brother Alois is supposed to have moved to Liverpool England in 1911 with a wife named Bridgit and according to his wife’s diary, Hitler stayed with the couple in their flat from November 1912 to April 1913. According to the wife’s diary, Hitler was on the run for dodging the draft in Austria. www.merseysidetoday.co.uk/hitler.
…his full brothers (those with the same mother AND father) all died in childhood. His half brother Alois survived until 1956, his half-sister Angela made it to 1949, and his full sister Paula died in 1960. Gustav and Ida died of diphtheria, Edmund died of measles, and Otto died soon after birth. There may have also been an illegitimate half-sibling but the name and even the sex of the child has been lost to history. . Paula was interrogated July 12, 1945 and talked a bit about her brother. ( http://www.adolfhitler.dk/paula/page_5.htm ) She never married or had children, and lived out her life under the name Wolf ( http://www.auschwitz.dk/Paula.htm ) . Angela married and had children under the last name Hamitzs according to Paula’s interrogation. . Alois also married (an Irish woman) and had a son, Willy, who moved to the
• June 25, 1895 Hitler’s father (Alois) retired • February 1900 brother (Edmund) died • September 1900 to 1904 student at the Linz Realschule • January 3, 1903 father died • September 14, 1903 half-sister (Angela) married Leo Raubal • 1904 to 1905 student at the Steyr Realschule • October 1907 took entrance exam for Vienna Academy of Fine Arts (rejected) • October 1908 applied to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts for the second time (not even admitted to test) • December 21, 1908 Hitler’s mother (Klara) dies of breast cancer • 1909 lives in Vienna at flophouses and hostels for four years • May 1913 leaves Vienna and moves to Munich, Germany • Only one sibling survived childhood, Paula (1896-1960). Four siblings died in childhood: Gustav (1885-1887), Ida (1886-1888), Otto (1887), Edmund (1894-1900). • One step-brother, Alois (b. 1882) and one step-sister, Angela (1883-1949) both from father’s previous marriage. Sources:
