Where was the mother of the Adolf Hitler relative who served in the United States Navy born?
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Bridget Dowling Bridget Elizabeth Hitler, née Dowling (alternative Brigid) (3 July 1891 – 18 November 1969), was Adolf Hitler's sister-in-law via her marriage to Alois Hitler, Jr.. She was the mother of Alois Hitler's son William Patrick Hitler. She was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland.
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William Patrick Stuart-Houston William Patrick "Willy" Stuart-Houston ("né" Hitler; 12 March 1911 – 14 July 1987) was a British nephew of Adolf Hitler who worked in Germany and later emigrated to America in 1939. Born to Adolf's brother, Alois Hitler, Jr. and his first wife, Bridget Dowling, in Liverpool, England, William Hitler later moved to Germany, but subsequently emigrated to the United States, where he served in the United States Navy in World War II.
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Hermann Fegelein Hans Otto Georg Hermann Fegelein (30 October 1906 – 28 April 1945) was a high-ranking commander in the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany. He was a member of Adolf Hitler's entourage and brother-in-law to Eva Braun through his marriage to her sister, Gretl.
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Thelma Bendler Stern Thelma Bendler Stern (b. December 7, 1923; married name: Neubauer) is the first woman assigned to perform duties aboard a United States Navy ship as part of her official responsibilities. Stern was a civilian employee at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard during World War II, working in the engineering department. Her job as a ship's draftsman included taking measurements of ship features as required by her engineer colleagues to allow them to designate the placement of upgrades such as new anti-aircraft guns. Stern’s first assignment aboard ship occurred June 29, 1943, aboard the USNS "Escalante", a tanker (hull number AO70). This was followed by assignments aboard a further 229 ships before her career at the Navy yard ended in January 1946.
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Sonja Eisenberg Sonja Eisenberg (born 1926 in Berlin) is an American abstract painter. She fled Nazi Germany with her family and came to New York where she lives and works to this day. Eisenberg is an accomplished abstract painter, best known for her abstract expressionist watercolor and oil paintings. Her work is heavily inspired by her son, Ronald whom at a young age was diagnosed with Leukemia; he made her promise to “Share with others what you have always taught me… that there may be no more war.”
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Augustina Stridsberg Augustina Stridsberg, formerly Augustina Jirku (1892–1978), was an American citizen, and the mother of Margietta Voge (née Jirku). Both mother and daughter worked for Soviet intelligence between 1943 and 1944. Stridsberg worked for the KGB San Francisco office. Her code name with Soviet intelligence, as deciphered by the Venona project, was "Klara".
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Mother Thekla Mother Thekla was born "Marina Sharf" in Kilslovodsk, a spa town in the North Caucasus to Vladimir and Alice Sharf (née Volkenstein) during the revolution in Russia the day after Nicolas II, and the royal family was murdered 18 July 1918 and died in the early hours of Sunday August 7, 2011. The family escaped to England and lived in Richmond, Surrey. Her older brother, Andrew, was an historian specializing in Byzantium. He moved to Israel with his wife, Eva, a painter, and his mother they emigrated to Israel. Andrew became professor of history at Bar Ilan University.
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Eva Braun Eva Anna Paula Hitler ("née" Braun; 6 February 1912 – 30 April 1945) was the longtime companion of Adolf Hitler and, for fewer than 40 hours, his wife. Braun met Hitler in Munich when she was a 17-year-old assistant and model for his personal photographer; she began seeing him often about two years later. She attempted suicide twice during their early relationship. By 1936, she was a part of his household at the Berghof near Berchtesgaden and lived a sheltered life throughout World War II. Braun was a photographer, and many of the surviving colour photographs and films of Hitler were taken by her. She was a key figure within Hitler's inner social circle, but did not attend public events with him until mid-1944, when her sister Gretl married Hermann Fegelein, the SS liaison officer on his staff.
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Marie Vassiltchikov Marie Illarionovna Vassiltchikov (Russian: Мария Илларионовна Васильчикова ; 11 January 1917 – 12 August 1978) was a Russian princess who wrote "Berlin Diaries, 1940-1945", which described the effects of the bombing of Berlin and events leading to the attempted assassination of Adolf Hitler in the 20 July Plot.
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Miriam Winter Miriam Winter (Maria Orlowski) (June 2, 1933 – July 19, 2014) was born in Łódź, Poland to Tobiasz (Tuvyeh) Winter and Majta Laja (Leah) Winter, (maiden name Kohn). She is perhaps best known for her authorship of "Trains: A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood during and after World War II", which explores not only her survival of the Holocaust as a 'hidden child' but also the psychological toll of keeping her identity hidden, even to herself, in post World War II Poland.
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Virginia Clinton Kelley Virginia Dell Blythe Clinton Dwire Kelley (née Cassidy; June 6, 1923 – January 6, 1994) was an American nurse and the mother of Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States.
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Maria von Maltzan Maria Helene Françoise Izabel Gräfin von Maltzan, Freiin zu Wartenberg und Penzlin (March 25, 1909 – November 12, 1997) was an aristocrat who, as part of the German Resistance against Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party, saved the lives of many Jewish people in Berlin.
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Maurice Rose Major General Maurice Rose (November 26, 1899 – March 30, 1945) was a United States Army general during World War II and World War I veteran. The son and grandson of rabbis from Poland, General Rose was at the time the highest ranking Jew in the U.S. Army. He was married twice and had two sons.
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Americans in Germany Americans in Germany or American Germans (German: Amerikanische Deutsche, US-Deutsche or Amerikadeutsche) refers to the American population in Germany and their German-born descendants. According to Destatis, 107,755 American citizens lived in Germany in 2013, and about 324,000 people with American ancestry.
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Alfred Zeller Alfred Zeller (June 14, 1909– June 4, 1988), born in Hamburg, Germany, was an American illustrator and painter. Zeller was the son of the German portrait painter, Rudolph Jacob Zeller, and Eva Behn Zeller. Alfred Zeller's father was Jewish and his mother was a Gentile. His mother committed suicide during the Nazi occupation of Germany. Alfred Zeller had a brother named Richard.
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Laureen Nussbaum Laureen Nussbaum (born Hannelore Klein, August 3, 1927) is a German-born linguist and writer. She is best known for being a Holocaust survivor, a Holocaust educator and for being a childhood friend of the famed memoirist Anne Frank. Nussbaum is frequently consulted on Anne Frank works and literature.
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Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (July 20, 1835 – January 25, 1900) was Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein, a niece of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, and the mother-in-law of Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany. She is an ancestor of Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and Felipe VI of Spain.
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Hermine Braunsteiner Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan (July 16, 1919 – April 19, 1999) was a female camp guard at Ravensbrück and Majdanek concentration camps, and the first Nazi war criminal to be extradited from the United States, to face trial in Germany.
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Mary von Rosen Mary von Rosen (née Mary Fock, 5 February 1886 – 26 February 1967) was born in Sweden. She was the third of the five daughters of Baron Carl Fock and the elder sister of Carin Göring, the first wife of Hermann Göring. She was married to Count Eric von Rosen, with whom she had six children: Bjorn (b. 1905), Mary (b. 1906), Carl Gustaf von Rosen (b. 1909), Birgitta (b. 1913), Egil (b. 1919), and Anna (b. 1926).
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Heinz Linge Heinz Linge (23 March 1913 – 9 March 1980) was an SS officer who served as a valet for German dictator Adolf Hitler. Linge was present in the "Führerbunker" on 30 April 1945, when Hitler shot himself.
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Theodore Roosevelt III Theodore Roosevelt IV (June 14, 1914 – May 2, 2001), commonly known as Theodore Roosevelt III (although the fourth to bear the same name), was a banker, government official, veteran of World War II, and the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt through his father, Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., a politician and World War II military leader, and Eleanor Butler Alexander.
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USS Bullhead USS "Bullhead" (SS-332), a "Balao"-class submarine, was the very last US Navy ship sunk by enemy action during World War II, probably on the same day that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. She was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the bullhead (any large-headed fish, especially the catfish, miller's thumb, and sculpin). Her keel was laid down by the Electric Boat Company of Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on July 16, 1944 sponsored by Mrs. Howard R. Doyle, and commissioned December 4, 1944 with Commander W. T. Griffith in command.