Here’s one of those truth is stranger than fiction stories, as reported by the U.K. Daily Mail ~
 
Seems Das Führer had a nephew, one William Patrick Hitler, who, determined to be part of the fight against his infamous uncle and the Nazis, actually served three years in the U.S. navy.
 
War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars, a book written by Andrew Carroll (pub.2002) includes an amazing letter that William Hitler penned to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in March, 1942 ~

All my relatives and friends soon will be marching for freedom and decency under the Stars and Stripes. For this reason, Mr. President, I am respectfully submitting this petition to you to enquire as to whether I may be allowed to join them in their struggle against tyranny and oppression?

 

 
The “Other Hitler’s” tale is a fascinating one:

William Patrick, who later changed his last name to Stuart-Houston, was the son of Adolf’s half-brother Alois and first wife Bridget Dowling. He was born in Liverpool, England on March 12, 1911.
 
Three years later, Alois left his wife and son and took off for Europe. He remarried, becoming a bigamist, but kept in contact with his first wife. He settled in Germany asking Bridget to send William for a visit. She agreed in 1929 when William was 18.
 
William had a half-brother Heinz Hitler – however he became a committed Nazi (and was later tortured to death by the Soviets).
In 1933, William found himself in Nazi Germany where he planned to cash in on his uncle’s rise to political fame. He badgered his uncle for a better job than the one he was given working in a bank.
 
In 1938, Adolf offered his nephew a high-powered position within his organization but William fled to Britain, as he was suspicious that it was a trap.
 
He escaped from Germany in 1939 with the help of a British spy and quickly left for the U.S. with his mother.

 
Resolved to enlist in the Allied cause, William first contacted the U.S. army who rejected him due to his unfortunate family connections. He then wrote directly to FDR:

I am the nephew and only descendant of the ill-famed Chancellor and Leader of Germany who today so despotically seeks to enslave the free and Christian peoples of the globe.
 
Under your masterful leadership men of all creeds and nationalities are waging desperate war to determine, in the last analysis, whether they shall finally serve and live an ethical society under God or become enslaved by a devilish and pagan regime.
 
Everybody in the world today must answer to himself which cause they will serve. To free people of deep religious feeling there can be but one answer and one choice, that will sustain them always and to the bitter end.

 
William’s letter ultimately reached then FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover who approved Hitler for naval service.

You can read the entire letter HERE.

 
I was struck by William’s confident assumption that FDR and he both clearly understood the nature of the conflict. That they both realized the Nazis represented a direct threat to Western civilization and all that it stands for. That it was so starkly a war between good; the Christian peoples of the globe, and evil; a devilish and pagan regime.

But then, of course, this was long before we all became mezmerized and befuddled by multi-culturalism.
 
Thank God that the “Other Hitler’s” worldview was still firmly shared by the Allies 60 years ago, or World War II may have had a much different outcome.