Hitler Alois Jr, born Matzelsberger, later changed his name in Hiller.

Hitler Alois Jr, born Matzelsberger, later Hiller, born, 13-01-1882 in Vienna , while his father was still married to his first wife, Anna. After Anna died and his parents were married, Alois (see Hitler parents)

  was legitimized and his name was changed to Alois Hitler, Jr. His grandparents were Johann Georg Hiedler and his wife   Maria Anna Schicklgruber

Alois Jr. was soon joined by his sister, Angela Raubal

. When Alois was two years old , his mother died and his father married Klara Pölzl, a niece with whom he had a long-standing affair while also cheating on his first wife with Franziska. Living in Hafeld, Almsteg 29, Rauschergut, Alois left home for, Dublin, Ireland, in 1896, at 14, due to increasingly violent arguments with his father and apparently strained relations with his stepmother Klara. After working as an apprentice waiter, he was arrested for theft and served a five-month sentence in 1900, followed by an eight-month sentence in 1902. Meanwhile his stepmother Klara had died of breast cancer, age 47, on 21-12-1907 and only two weeks later on 03-01-1903 his father Alois Sr. died at the age 65 of heart failure, in Leonding, near Linz in Austria. Both are buried on the small cemetery of Leonding, behind their former house.

In 1909 he met an Irish woman by the name of Bridget Dowling at the Dublin Horse Show. They eloped to London and married on 03-06-1910. William Dowling, Bridget’s father, threatened to have Alois arrested for kidnapping, but Bridget dissuaded him. The couple settled in Liverpool, where their son William Patrick Hitler-Houston Stuart Patrick 

    was born in 1911. He changed his name in Stuart Houston. The family lived in a flat at 102 Upper Stanhope Street. Ironically, the house was destroyed in the last German air-raid on Liverpool on 10-01-1942. Nothing remains of the house or those that surrounded it, and the area was eventually cleared and grassed over. Bridget Dowling’s memoirs claim Adolf Hitler ( did you know) lived with them in Liverpool from 1912 to 1913 while he was on the run for dodging the draft in his native Austria-Hungary, but most historians dismiss this story as a fiction invented to make the book more appealing to publishers. Alois attempted to make money by running a small restaurant in Dale Street, a boarding house on Parliament Street and a hotel on Mount Pleasant, all of which failed. Finally, he left his family in May 1914 and he returned alone to the German Empire to establish himself in the safety-razor business. World War I broke out soon after, stranding Alois in Germany and making it impossible for his wife and son to join him.

   He married another woman, Hedwig Heidemann, or Hedwig Mickley), in 1916. After the war, a third party informed Bridget that he was dead. His ruse was discovered by the German authorities and Alois was prosecuted for bigamy in 1924, but acquitted due to Bridget’s intervention on his behalf. William Patrick stayed with Alois and his new family during his early trips to Weimar Republic Germany in the late 1920s and early 1930s. In 1934 Alois established a restaurant in Berlin which became a popular drinking hole for SA Stormtroopers . He managed to keep the restaurant open through the duration of World War II. At the end of the war he was arrested by the British but released when it became clear he had played no role in his brother’s regime. His son from his second wife, Heinz Hitler, a Nazi, attended an elite Nazi military academy, the National Political Institutes of Education Napola  in Ballenstedt Saxony Anhalt   ref label interrogation 1 b . Aspiring to be an officer, Heinz joined the Wehrmacht as a signals NCO with the 23^rd Potsdamer Artillery Regiment in 1941.  On 10-01-1942, was captured by Soviet forces and  sent

     to the Moscow military prison Butyrka, where he died, aged 21, after several days of interrogation and torture. Unlike his half-brother William Patrick, Heinz was a devoted Nazi. Leo Rudolf Raubal Jr., William and Heinz’s cousin, fought in the Luftwaffe. (see Geli Raubal).

  Leo, like Heinz, was captured by the Russians but, unlike Heinz, was freed after the war. Following the war Alois was briefly involved with a right wing political party. In the 1950s he made money signing photographs of his brother and selling them to tourists. Alois and Adolf Hitler were never close, apparently due to the former’s resentment of his half-brother stemming from childhood.

   He is not mentioned in Hitler’s Mein Kampf and they rarely, if ever, met after Hitler’s rise to power. Living in the Timm Kröger Weg 33 in Hamburg,  Alois Hitler died 20-05-1956, in a traffic accident, age 74 and is buried in a secret grave, with his wife Hedwig, on the Ohldorfer cemetery of Hamburg, the administration doesn’t give any information about the location. On the very large Ohlsdorfer cemetery in Hamburg, are also buried actor, Hans Albers

the actor, SS Oberleutnant der Panzertruppe, Kommandeur “Kampfgruppe Knaust” Battle of Arnhem, Hans Peter Knaust, known from “a bridge too far” Operation Market Garden. Major Hans-Peter Knaust was a 38 year old veteran. He had lost his right leg in the winter of 1941 after sustaining injuries near the village of Timonino, northwest of Moscow. After healing and obtaining a wooden leg, Knaust remained in the fight. He received the German Cross in gold for his heroism and continued leadership of II./Schützen Regt 4 in the battles for Moscow. And now, around Arnhem, Knaust was in command of a not very fresh unit. Many of his men were war invalids and there were many young additions without combat experience. Major Knaust had rapidly brought in 35 tanks to take the bridge in Arnhem.

Generalmajor der Infanterie, one of the final occupants of the Führerbunker during the battle of Berlin, in 1945, General Stab 123^th Infantry Division, Ernst Klasing  and there is a family grave of the Generalfieldmarshal der Infanterie, Chef Oberkommando der Wehrmacht , Wilhelm Keitel. 

   

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