@@LordProtectorPepper It's a side effect of "everyone I don't like is Hitler". Call people "anime nazis" and you start getting photoshops of cute anime girls with Hitler because it's funny.
@@Blink_____No. It's more a reference to an old trend of people on message boards with specifically K-On! profile pics also happening to be raging Neo-Nazis.
I am so glad to see I am not the only one that had trouble following. I am bad with names, but add non-linear familial relationships to that, and im done
My uncle, whose family name was Hiler, was accidentally given the ID badge of William Patrick Hitler, which was next to his, when they were both serving in a CCC camp (the Civilian Conservation Corps was a semi-military organization run by the Federal government to provide employment during the Depression). Hitler's nephew explained to my uncle the source of his colorful surname.
@@rheannagold6620 There really isn't more to it than that. Uncle Wes thought it was kind of cool to meet Hitler's nephew, but that was about it. Young Hitler didn't reveal the Hitler Family secret handshake or anything.
Nope people from that era especially people that were part of the Nazi party. Got definitely a box in the house with medals, flags and stuff from the Nazi party. Someone’s grandpa showed me once a box like that. But people in Europe especially don’t like to talk a lot about it.
@@Jaa__17 There's a word in German (I don't remember what it is, but since it's German, of course it's a single word, heh) that means something like, "grandfather anxiety". It refers to the uneasiness a young German feels on first meeting a German born before 1930....
"died of measles in June of 1900 because the past was the worst" was such a throwaway line but it was a gem. I quite literally spit out my drink because of this.
And yet you still have people that think that their so called "end stage capitalism" is bad and going back to old ways and times would fix everything... and they are mostly on the "progressive" side
@@juanf5391Strife and struggles build character. The kids today don't have the difficulties of previous generations, and are soft, whiny, spoiled brats with delusions of entitlement.
There was a family that I knew whose name was originally Hitler which was changed In WWII. Another family acquaintance, our butcher had changed their name from Mussolini again in WWII. Neither were related to the notorious holders of the families original names.
I find that difficult to believe. because Hitler was originally spelled Hiedler, and his father Alois changed it to Hitler. ie. Hitler is extremely rare surname even in Germany or Austria for that matter.
A friend of mine's family "Americanized" their German last name when they immigrated here around/during WWI. They dropped a single consonant! She said it wasn't uncommon for Germans to do that either because of ostracization or because their last name was too difficult for English-only speakers to pronounce or they would always transcribe the name phonetically, so that's what the family would stick with. They had a double M and dropped one to make it less Germanic plus Americans never spelt it right anyway.
@@xXNitemareXx Famous Hollywood Actor James Garner's real surname was Bumgarner. Which, obviously, is an unfortunate Americanization of Baumgärtner. So, Hollywood dropped the Bum part.
I feel like that's a common theme when you look at vitas from the 1800s (the time when we had solid documentation but no solid birth control or fertility treatment). Many either had a ton of children, or none at all. And f*ckboys are certainly not a 21st century invention.
its actually kinda fucked up because the picture definitely was made by a 4chan nazi. Like, I've seen it posted there. Nothing against K-On btw, its an amazing show about freedom and the liberation of girls' youth...directed by a woman, too. its really not something that nazis should be fucking with, but for some reason they are known to do so.
I used to have a manager with the last name Hiler. He was a jerk so we used to joke that his family name was really Hitler and they just took the T out when they emigrated. Maybe we were closer to correct than we thought.
That happened more times than you think when people migrated to the US. Like when my great grandfather migrated to the US from Sweden his last name went from Neilson to Nelson.
There's 3 Hitlers buried right next to my WW2 code talker grandfather in law and about a quarter mile from my code talker dad. I've always wondered about them, though they appear to have died and been buried several years before and during WW2. There's also quite a few Histors buried there too. I've heard Histor is just Hitler misspelled.
@kurtvanluven9351 Imagine waking up in your coffin after having been a code talker being surrounded by Hitlers! I could see my dad, "Hahaha Lozen. Very funny, Lozen. Now take me back to the Rez or to Arlington. WHADDA YOU MEAN MY GRANDCHILDREN "LIKE" JAPANESE CARTOONS?!?! IS THAT A JAPANESE CARTOON MACHINE IN YOUR HANDS?!?! ET TU, MY BELOVED DAUGHTER?!?!" I'd be like, "Yup, you're going to Arlington or the Rez. I can't handle this for an eternity! 😫"
A minor correction: Alois and Klara indeed had five children, but it was the first two -- Gustav and Ida -- who died in infancy. AH was number three. The fourth, a brother called Edmund, passed aged 6. The fifth, called Paula, survived her famous brother and died aged 64 in 1960.
@@inamorata966 . . have you seen Western Society today? Has it ever crossed your mind what General Patton meant when he said "we defeated the wrong enemy"?
When I was in university, I lived on the same street where his brother and sister-in-law lived. There's a plaque outside it honouring his brother for his service in the Allied forces. Local folklore says his sister-in-law was the one who convinced him to change to the Chaplin stache.
around 20 years ago working IT in London, a Young Irish web Developer started at the company, nice guy around 21. Anyway he proceeds to tell me a story of how there is an upcoming TV programme re his family/him (Channel 4) and it's about the fact they are part of Hitler's extended family, i.e from his brother Alois and Bridget. It was most unexpected. Turns out he was telling the truth, again he was a super nice guy
@@grantschiff7544 he was'nt name dropping , at the time i worked with him, he said that there was a upcoming C4 programme about his family, where he might be mentioned , and that it was a well known family secret, so not to be shocked. It was just a weird family connection he had, i did'nt think he intended to invade Poland
@davidrenton I feel sorry for him. I also don't feel sorry for him. Extremely bad luck. A friend of mine had a notsee hidler youth grandfather, and we are good buddies, I tease him about it.
@@grantschiff7544 he seemed to treat it as , you think your uncle is mad :). It was an open secret, hence the C4 documentary, he comes from the Brothers side who lived in Liverpool during the war, and people do not bear the sins of their father, brother i'll try and find the name of the show, it was 2001 just around 9/11 as i remember being at the job as we watched it unfold.
@@grantschiff7544 i might be wrong on this but i think Bridget Dowling, who was married to the Austrian painters brother was i think his great grandaunt or something, she was born in 1891 - 1969, and moved to America (being born in Dublin and living in Liverpool) , he was around 21 in 2001 , so it must be 3 generations back. He was from Ireland, Bridget did have a brother Thomas Dowling , so maybe that was his Great Grandad
Simon, just wondering if you talk this fast in your everyday life, or if it is to squeeze as much as possible into each video. This old brain is thankful for RU-vid's speed adjuster 😄. Keep up the great content!
I don't know who got the idea for the thumbnail, but I'd give them a raise. To combine a photograph of Austria's most famous painter and all members of the light music club from K-ON! - this is truly the best thumbnail I've ever seen. Even better is Simon in the corner seemingly at a loss for words.
I just realized I can change the speed of Simon’s talking just a notch down to 0.75 in order to better catch everything he says. I found myself backtracking a lot 10, 20, 30 seconds here and there. But I absolutely enjoy listening to Simon. He’s the best❤
Yeah I was struggling trying to keep up with what he was saying because he was speaking so fast. I had no clue that I could slow it down so that I could process what he was saying, thank you for that info!!
@joachimb5721 K-On is an anime, but some parts of its fan base are anti-Semitic and extremely racist. People with K-On pfp usually say some out of pocket racist stuff too.
@@joachimb5721 K-On is an anime about a Japanese High School club whose members form a band dedicated to playing light music, eating cakes and drinking tea. The band consists of the 4 girls in the thumbnail plus another (Ritsu) who isn't shown. It's as far from Hitler & fascism as you could possibly get. Unfortunately some idiot fascists decided to use their images in their posts and made some f*cked up memes about them.
@@saucymongoose7246 No. It was a thing many years ago for some people of the hitler persuasion to use it as their avatar in certain forums. Now it's just a meme.
Would a US Navy corpsman have his surname stitched on his uniform? If so, I can only imagine the startled reaction of a wounded sailor looking up and seeing a Hitler was treating his wound.
I am a long-time subscriber and love your content but sincerely wish you would speak a bit slower so that I can understand what you are saying. Thank you!
david.....NO !!! Laughed my arse off at that !!! I gotta use this...thanks! !.😅. There was a creepy old 1900'ish apt bldg, when I lived in Cincinnati that people [jokingly] called 'the birthplace of Eva Braun'.
My friend found out only about 10 years ago that his (great?) grandfather was Rudolf Hess. He got super depressed when he found out, and doesn't like talking about it.
Why would he get depressed over that it sounds like he is sad because of what society might do to him but honestly if I found out my great grandfather was a nazi or something I would be pretty intrigued lmao that sounds pretty cool I mean if it makes sense lol
His dad was always distant, and a shell of a man, and did (does?) contract work with companies like Triple Canopy, KBR, etc in various warring regions, and he would always just send my friend money for whatever. He said they always seemed to have money, but never really knew where it came from. When he pressed his dad on the money thing, his dad told him of their family tree, and sent him a brand new drum set to make up for it. To have an emotionless, never present father that lives a life of a mercenary that he barely knows surely takes a toll on its own, but then to find out that perhaps the reason why his dad was like that, was because his own father was one of the most well known Nazis in history.... That's pretty grim. I remember we were gonna jam, and he was like "yeah.. I don't even want to play these drums. What if these were bought with Nazi gold or something."
@@svjnessI hope your friend has learned to internalize his family's past and make peace with it. What matters is he's living against the ideologies of an evil man. Blood is all they share. Nothing more.
@@svjness ah damn now that you explain the full story it makes sense I feel bad for the guy I hope he gets better if he hasn’t already I mean the whole dad situation sucks I can relate but in different ways my dad just wasn’t present but would show up like once every year or two but damn hope he is doing good I still think its pretty intriguing to have a well knows nazi as your grandfather I mean obviously he doesn’t have to respect the guy or anything but just that fact alone is pretty crazy
Read Sabag Montefiore’sbiography. Stalin ended up showing a good deal of respect for Yakov. He was seen gazing at his picture and mutmouring about what a ‘ real man ‘ his eldest son was. I suspect that he always thought so, but under the circumstances of Barbarossa couldn’t afford to say so. One of his illegitimate sons ( very handsome bloke ) served with distinction in the War, too. He died in the 90s. His legitimate younger son was a dire embarrassment to Daddy, drunkenly crashing aircraft, botching up anything that did. All of his sons looked very Georgian, completely alike to Dad. Svetlana looked nothing like either of her parents. I’ve long thought that she was not, in fact, Stalin’s daughter. It’s just as well that the Great Leader never seems to have considered this possibility. Imagine the resulting turmolt ! 😮😮😮
The question is have u ever read or listened to his speeches? Or did u just see clips of him yelling in German and u listened to what 🇮🇱 media told u he “said”. Because if you didn’t u know nothing about this man.
@@raggamuffin2682 the speeches reference annihilating those people, not up for debate. Unless you're trying to say Jewry is something else entirely, he's still talking about annihilation.
If anyone's confused about the thumbnail, the characters are from an anime called K-On, which is one of those "Cute girls doing cute things" anime (they are in a band). Basically completely unpolitical on its own, but for some reason Neo-Nazis (particularly on 4chan) have a weird affinity towards that type of media and that series in particular. Therefore, people with profile pics of its characters being card carrying Nazis has become a stereotype and a meme (not inaccurate IMHO). The original edit in the thumbnail was also probably at least semi-serious, not someone making fun of those guys, which adds another layer to that joke.
"Neo nazis on 4chan" man I love when people try to explain stuff they aren't actually very familiar with. It's because the juxtaposition of cute harmless characters doing and saying vile shit is FUNNY. the subversion of expectations being used for comedy is as old as comedy itself And basically everyone on 4chan is role playing being insane but are actually pretty damn normal irl (aside from the social issues) they're autistic shitposters trying to one up each other in the crazy shit they say and goofing off, not actual neo nazis lmao
There was an employee at a gas station near me a few years ago that claimed to be related to Hitler. He was creepy about it too and seemed proud. Always talked about it
I must commend the entire team for not succumbing to the tempetation of naming any surviving relatives of Hitler. It's a fact that they are relatives, and that is easily discoverable through a search on the internet. However, it takes a superiour understanding of the human condition to know not to just freely divulge such sensitive facts about a fellow human, especially not in this age of eager age of cancel culture.
Famouse people are 'canceled' and for some definable action/statement etc which is seen as over the line, and in the strictest sense only people who were previously supportive can 'cancel' aka they are canceling their support, an already estabished detractor can't cancel. If your a nobody who hasn't done anything and your identifying info is spread that it's just called Doxing. And frankly it's a very low bar for a video to cross to not engage in Doxing.
These are not shocking family secrets, but well-known facts. But I haven't seen another documentary that explains the complicated family relationships so well and summarizes everything.
Thank you for not getting into the living relative’s info. Everyone is at the mercy of their fate, and they do not deserve condemnation for their relative’s crime, although their pact (which they have corroborated many times) is very respectable. Great episode, & fantastic content as always Mr. W. Simon 👏
The History Channel once did a special on Hilters surviving relatives and some immigrated to America ane now live somewhere on Long Island under a different name.
I can’t help but have sympathy for his sister. I tried to imagine my own siblings doing such terrible things, and I still think I would be very sad if they passed away. The whole situation is heartbreaking.
There is a catacombs in Brussels where entire family lines are interred, generation after generation. One of the families in there, whose first cells date back to the founding of the catacombs, was the Nazhi family. Sometime in the mid 40s they, for some reason, chose to change their family name to Natchi...
This is fascinating ! Thank you. (**note** never watch this stoned, and without pencil and paper). Regardless, it's terrific. Also, the b&w photograph/films from pre-1950, are really telling. It's hard to explain. Weirdly, my dad was among the first American soldiers (82nd & 101st Airborne) to enter the Berghof (Eagle's Nest). Didn't know my dad well, but my older sister later told me, that me had chronic nightmares, from working at a Rumanian orphan camp after the war, as a GI. I've watched you about a dozen times, but this was one of your best. Subscribing now...
I find it hard to hear what is being said, and even closed captioning can't decipher what is being said at the speed of light. Take your time so we can understand what's being said.
I changed the playback speed in settings. If tap on the video, a cog wheel icon will pop up in top right corner. Click on it, then playback speed & choose which speed is best for you. I went with 0.75
I don't like to be critical as I enjoy your videos but lately you seem to be talking faster or my brain is slowing down. I've had to resort to setting the playback speed down.
RU-vid videos are not education material. You wouldn’t even recognize the mistakes in this video before you were to repeat it. Please be a better teacher don’t steal material from Tiktok and RU-vid because they’re almost always missing critical info.
@@buy_large_mansionsOne definite mistake is the picture that supposedly shows the young Paula Hitler. Nope, it's Maria Reiter, a young girl he was linked with for a short time before Eva Braun. At the end Hans Frank is mentioned as probably being mad at his boss for being in that situation and facing hanging. Actually, Hans Frank was the only one amongst the whole bunch of war criminals who showed a bit of remorse (Though that certainly did not absolve him, and it's recommended to read what Niklas Frank, the youngest of his three sons said about his father! Hint: it's not good.) That's just two off the top of my head.
@@mariann2111 Hans Frank being remorseful doesn't alter the fact that he might still be angry with his former boss. I'll take your word on the mistake with the one photograph, it still seems pretty solid to me.
@@buy_large_mansionsI think I said something to this end - he wasn't absolved and his story was actually also told by Niklas Frank, his youngest son, who doesn't have a single good word for his father. Rightly so.
He wasn't related to Hit*&r, but my friend's child got harassed by older children because of the actions of an imprisoned uncle he'd never met. "Oh, you're one of those no good Wallis kids," even though it was that one specific family member who was the 💩bag.
That seems to happen a lot. When my grandma was a kid, she had a neighbor who went absolutely nuts, just lost her entire grip on reality, and killed all but two of her kids (one was gone, the other was a baby whose twin she killed, but for some weird reason...left the other alive). She dressed them up, tucked 3 in bed, put one in a chair at the table and rocked the dead twin baby on a rocking chair outside all day long. 🤷 That was how she was found out. Someone saw the baby was dead when they came up to talk. The two kids that survived were sent to live with nearby family and were bullied RELENTLESSLY. Grandma said rumors started that the twin that lived was a demon who possessed the mom. The stories she told about their treatment were brutal. Like these people don't suffer enough because of said persons actions!
I love how it's so common for stuff like " a record few others in history have managed to match" just roll glibly off the tongue, when 2 contemporaries far exceeded him in death toll and easily matched him for sheer evil, and while Hitler started a war that killed 10s of millions across all of Europe, Stalin and Mao killed their own citizens in numbers that far outstripped the entirety of all European war dead.
The Stuart-Houston's lived near my husband when they were kids. They had NO IDEA who they were. As a kid my husband went over to their house and their kid went over to his house. He and Howard Stuart-Houston and others went on a ski trip together Howard Suart-Houston is the one who died in a car accident. My husband dropped his spoon in his soup when I told him who the Stuart- Houstons were.
There’s a part of my brain that wants someone to create a sitcom called “The Hitlers”. Make the cast of the show super diverse. The twisted image I have in my head makes me laugh!😂
I think that I've been watching your show, one or the other, for several years. I am always facinted by you topic, how well its written, and your wonderful delivery.
My second wife, Austrian, had a father named Adolf. Bizarrely, he never thought to change his name and unsurprisingly I, an Englishman, could never bring myself to address him as Adolf. So, for the gratifyingly short time we were obliged to spend together before his natural demise, I addressed him as "Adi, whether he liked or not. I might have given him leeway had it not been for the framed photograph of him in Nazi uniform, replete with Iron Cross and Oak Leaves, displayed proudly in his living room. I admit not to have shed a single tear at his dismal funeral.
The fact that William Patrick took the surname Stuart-Houston is another weird twist. Houston Stewart Chamberlain was a ultra far right anglo-german author and anti-semite, and one of Hitler’s main sources of inspiration..
**To the tune of The Flintstones** "Hitlers meet the Hitlers. They're a modern Wartime Family. From the Führerbunker. Theyve got their place in history"
Well, influence can help there. Crown prince Rudolph also was burried in consecrated grund, and he killed himself plus murdered a Teenager he groomed for it. Also: the churches rules are a bit more nuanced. For a sin to be mortal, it has to be understood as mortal and done willingly. Mental illness, Youth etc can all be used as an Argument that your will wasn't free/that you didn't understand the gravity respectively.
There are always exceptions. And considering where she was to be buried likely came from a dictator that people immediately did without question ... or else, that means nothing here in this case. So it would have been entirely possible, and only up to a decision from a mad man. Let that sink in.....
he has on a different chanel geo something unfortunately i can’t remember but just look up sealand history and it should come up ! my family just purchased baron/baroness titles from there and it’s extremely interesting finding out about its history!
@@marcpeterson1092 Oh. Boy. You had to be the one to ask the stupid single-word question. Here goes: Sealand has an extremely intriguing story. The Principality of Sealand is an unrecognized micronation on HM Fort Roughs (also known as Roughs Tower), an offshore platform in the North Sea approximately 12 kilometres off the coast of Suffolk, England. Roughs Tower is a Maunsell Sea Fort that was built by the British in international waters during World War II. Since 1967, the decommissioned Roughs Tower has been occupied and claimed as a sovereign state by the family and associates of Paddy Roy Bates. Bates seized Roughs Tower from a group of pirate radio broadcasters in 1967 with the intention of setting up his own station there. Bates and his associates have repelled incursions from vessels from rival pirate radio stations and the U.K.'s royal navy using firearms and petrol bombs. Since 1987, when the United Kingdom extended its territorial waters to 12 nautical miles, the platform has been in British territory.
@@PrimericanIdol I suggested a subject once and provided a link to a magazine article which explained the subject and why it was interesting. Not sure it was because of me, but he did a video on it soon after.
My son's mother is from Argentina, her father is half German , the unbelievable stories that come out of that area are pretty wild. My own grandfather fought in WW2 in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. Ironically my father was stationed in Anchorage Alaska in 1995 when I was only 14 years old. I followed in his footsteps and I retired 6 years ago. History is a strange thing. A war changed history so much it's weird to think how the world would be today if the war never happened. I can guarantee I would have never been born nor would my son have been born and possibly even my father. I guess there's a silver lining to everything.
When I was in highschool it was correctly or not accepted that Hitler was part Jewish. Trying to distract a teacher from starting class with conversation whas very common. In the conversation before English class the top of Hitler being part Jewish came up. Most of us had heard this and all but one accepted this as fact. The one student very angrily said "Hitler was not par Jew. Do your research.". If he was correct or not is not relevant his anger at the idea of Hitler being part Jewish was concerning
This kid could have been Jewish and the idea that the most evil man to ever lived being anything to do with his religion could have pissed him off somewhat.
idk if you are angry about people being wrong then saying something about it it is pretty natrual. imagine you a expert in a hobby regardless of waht it is , and then some one claims something totally opposite of it or wrong yeah you are gonna be annoyed, i don't envy or fancy nazis but if some one is wrong about something then guess what they are wrong regardless.
Props to y'all for choosing to respect the living relatives' wishes for privacy, instead of going straight for the "juicy story". Not many would do that, especially when, as you say, personal information about them is already somewhat public.
Most people don't know that Hitler's sister Paola moved to Salt Lake City Utah after WW2 for a few years.Mostly none are talking about it.I discovered it in MORMON GEANEALOGY records.
I assume most of the family did not change their last name. But what if.....Adolph had been successful as a painter? Might as well wish that the Archduke's driver had not made a wrong turn in 1914.
According to historian John Toland, Alois Hitler had a wife who bore a child named Adolf who emigrated to the USA. This unfortunate man served in the United States Navy during the war before changing his name. Based on Toland's notes this would not be the William Patrick described here. I am inclined to trust Toland's work due to his many well researched works. The information is in his two volume biography.
