Like a fourth of China is directly descended from Ghengis Kahn. I don't think any of them care, and I don't think anyone blames them for a swath of rape and murder cut across the globe. Let it go. Besides, I don't think anything bad happened to the relatives a few years back who wanted decades of back residuals for sales of Mein Kamf. I mean other than not getting them.
My brother emailed me once asking me if we were related to a certain SS doctor (Aribet Heim - Dr. Death) who had done his bad stuff in Mauthausen. Wincing, I looked up Heim's history and did what I could to trace his family. Thankfully we weren't related in any way. I breathed a sigh of relief. But it gave me a smidgen of how shitty it would be to be related to someone infamous like Hitler, Mengele or any of the high-profile ones. It wouldn't be your fault that your ancestor or cousins or whatever were infamous and horrid, but I would think it would be a burden and I'm one would certainly not want to discuss it.
That's right son...we all got a little black man "in us"...some of us more than others...but it's "in there" just the same.
Yes, there is a good chance that could happen. There are some very fucked up people around the world.
Isn't there an English guy who is Hitler's half brother (same father, different mother)? If I remember correctly this guy doesn't mind admitting the connection even though he disapproves of everything Hitler did. EDITED TO ADD: The man I was thinking of is William Patrick Hitler later known as StuartHouston), and who was mentioned in the OP . He was born in Britain, spent some time in Germany and eventually moved to the USA. He joined the US Navy in 1944. William Patrick died in 1987 but he had four sons who are Hitler's great nephews. None of the above information has been secret. I first read about them years ago, along with information about Hitler's sister (Paula) EDITED TO ADD: I think I first became aware of William Patrick Hitler when I read an article about this book which was released in 2003.
Well, actually, Cain and Abel found their wives in the "Land of Nod." Yeah, figure THAT one out. I keep laughing about the absurdity of this and imagining the following sign in downtown Ohio: BOB HITLER CADILLAC. --Ted, Second cousin to Genghis Khan
So they stalked, publicized against their will, and potentially placed the lives of a group of people in danger (though unlikely) over nothing more than their namesake and genetics. I think der Führer would be proud. Some of these poor people have already decided not to have children over misplaced guilt for something they had no part in, and these assholes had to ostracize them even more when they clearly wanted privacy?
Hi, welcome to the world. There are pretty fucked up people here. I could easily see someone trying to hunt these relatives down.
You know, I've had numbers of black people blame me for the evils of slavery simply because I'm white.
Anybody remember the episode of "Hill street blues" with Vic Hitler-the narcoleptic comic? Anyway even Hitler wasn't Hitler,his real name was Shickelgruber(sp.?).
Apologies. The Land of Nod is where Cain was banished after killing Abel. Supposedly Cain, Abel and Seth married their sisters. Which explains certain figures in both political parties. --Ted
It's rather ridiculous that anyone could think giving the names of these people a good idea. There are a lot of irrational idiots in the world who don't get the 'don't foster more hate' thing. That said...I guess that settles whether my coworker who looks just like Hitler is a close relative.