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William Patrick Hitler was born in Liverpool in the UK in 1911. His father was Adolf Hitler's brother Alois Hitlerā¦After the war, William Hitler changed his last name to Stuart-Houston.
Look's article is written by William and reveals what it was like to be Adolf Hitler's nephew. Here are some excerpts.
I couldnāt find the whole article. If any of you happens to have it, send it my way š¹ The excerpts are so petty š
May 7, 2025
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here are 3 of my most exciting pieces of lore:
1) my dad was in the south tower on 9/11 and he made it out, but was still in the building when the plane hit. the plane went through his office window, but he was already evacuating and on around the 40th floor when the plane hit
2) my paternal grandfather (jewish) was born in austria but his family moved to milan in ā33/34 when hitler came into power. in ā44 when the nazis occupied northern italy, his family escaped into the mountains northeast of milan near bergamo (he was about 13 or 14 years old at this point). his family helped smuggle guns to the partisans since they could speak german with an austrian accent and bypass nazi checkpoints. my grandfather had to shoot a fascist at one checkpoint going wrong, and so at 14 he joined the partisans full-on and lived with them until the war ended. i have a bunch of photos from his time with the partisans (attached some). apparently the group he was specifically with was led by this kinda crazy guy who threatened the security of the whole partisan operations, so he was actually killed by other communist partisans. a few years ago i found a man who researches this exact group in bergamo, and now i have an 80 yr old italian pen-pal who published some photos of my grandfather in his book.
3) my maternal grandfather was orphaned really young in cuba and was really poor. he met my grandmother when he saw her riding her bike down the street and instantly fell in love with her (yes, just like cinema paradiso). she was really rich and her family hated him, so he would wait outside her window just to see her. eventually they get married and have my eldest uncle (because love always perseveres). this part of the story is fuzzy, but i believe he got into some gambling issues and so my grandmothers family shipped him to the US (probably with hopes of getting rid of him for good). but he began to build a life for his family there. then the revolution happened and he continued to go back and forth, but then castro put in the policy that children born in cuba had to stay, so they moved to nyc permanently. but my grandfather loved castro, as most cubans did. so my family is not part of the typical exile cuban-american demographic, which i always found fascinating.
Feb 19, 2024
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My dad had always told me we were related to Al Gore and Gore Vidal and of course I knew who the former was but never really bothered to read much about the latter.Ā His first name comes from the family name of his mother.
I started getting into genealogy and came upon an essay by Vidal that had been published in The New York Review of Books called The Ruins of Washington where he writes about our shared Anglo-Irish ancestors who came over in the 17th century and owned a large portion of the land that would become Washington, D.C.Ā Ā Our ancestors sold the land and as the families branched off they migrated further and further south ultimately ending up in Mississippi.Ā Ā
My grandfather was best friends with Goreās uncle and my dad grew up with Goreās first cousins, so though the cousinage between us is distant on paper, the kinship bond and shared culture was still there.
I was so excited to see what else Gore Vidal had written about our family that I downloaded his essay collection The Last Empire, where he writes:
āBut then the Gore genes are strong, making for large noses and ears and, in many, chinoiserie-style eyes, more gray than blue. Blake certainly had inherited the Gore sharpness of tongue ā¦Ā Ā If there is an uncomfortable truth to be told, at least one Gore can always be counted on to bear sardonic wit-ness.ā
āThey are also known for their forensic skill, wit, learningā family characteristics the Vice President modestly kept under wraps for fear of frightening the folks at large.ā
Which is an eerily accurate and specific description of me.Ā Ā As I read more of the essays in this book, I began to realize Gore Vidal was right about literally everything in the world and that his quote in my bio is true.Ā Ā He was so much more than heās known for in pop culture.
As I devoured as much of his work as I could, especially his non-fiction writing, I developed a deep parasocial connection with him and found in him a kindred spirit. Ā Beneath his prickly acerbic exterior was a profoundly vulnerable and emotionally wounded man with mommy issues from his BPD mother.Ā Ā I love his fiercely anti-institutional autodidactic spirit.Ā Ā Heās my role model and I think we also look alike and have similar cunty arrogant vibes/minds.
In The Last Empire he writes that the Gore family will selectively pick and choose who to claim as family no matter how distant the relation is.Ā Ā I delusionally believe that if he were somehow alive todayāand also not ravaged with wet braināas a deep personal mythos weaver himself who had once found meaning in his own family story, he would be honored that I feel this way about him.Ā Ā Thank you if you read this rather lengthy volume of Tater Hole lore š„š³ļø
Apr 5, 2024
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somewhere on my dad ās side, escaped the Nazis as a kid. in the 80s as ambassador to Lebanon an intelligence agency armed with American weapons attempted to assassinate him for trying to link up with the PLO, and when he insinuated it was the Americans, he was charged with a phony insanity charge and drummed out of the service, later rehabilitated but a wild story nonetheless
Apr 11, 2024
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