Drone_pilot
18-08-06, 02:46
On a winter’s day towards the guttering end of 1937, a
broad-shouldered, dutiful Englishman with slick, dark hair parted above his
left ear arrived at Victoria station in London.
His destination was Priory Gardens, a street of terraced houses in
Highgate, a suburban village on the north side of the city where his mother
lived.
His appearance in the capital was of sufficient interest to be recorded in
the Mail, which remarked that 26-year-old Willy, as he liked to be called,
had 'a perceptible German accent', looked 'curiously like his uncle' and was 'an ardent Nazi'.
In mannerisms, he also resembled his uncle. He had developed one
particular habit of folding his arms expressly for the purpose of encouraging
strangers to recognise the similarity.
The man's full name was William Patrick Hitler, the Merseyside-born son of
an Irish woman whose maiden name was Bridget Dowling and an Austrian
called Alois Hitler, the older half-brother of the Fuhrer himself, whose
signed photograph appeared in pride of place on the drawing room table in
that Highgate house.
The Daily Mail Read More (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=401138&in_page_id=1770)
broad-shouldered, dutiful Englishman with slick, dark hair parted above his
left ear arrived at Victoria station in London.
His destination was Priory Gardens, a street of terraced houses in
Highgate, a suburban village on the north side of the city where his mother
lived.
His appearance in the capital was of sufficient interest to be recorded in
the Mail, which remarked that 26-year-old Willy, as he liked to be called,
had 'a perceptible German accent', looked 'curiously like his uncle' and was 'an ardent Nazi'.
In mannerisms, he also resembled his uncle. He had developed one
particular habit of folding his arms expressly for the purpose of encouraging
strangers to recognise the similarity.
The man's full name was William Patrick Hitler, the Merseyside-born son of
an Irish woman whose maiden name was Bridget Dowling and an Austrian
called Alois Hitler, the older half-brother of the Fuhrer himself, whose
signed photograph appeared in pride of place on the drawing room table in
that Highgate house.
The Daily Mail Read More (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=401138&in_page_id=1770)