Remer let Goebbels go. The SS then snapped into action, arriving in Berlin, now in chaos, just in time to convince many high German officers to remain loyal to Hitler. Arrests, torture sessions, executions and suicides followed.
No one in that room can still be alive. The plot was completely undone. Now Hitler had to restore calm and confidence to the German civilian population. A very small clique of ambitious, irresponsible…and stupid officers had concocted a plot to eliminate me… It is a gang of criminal elements which will be destroyed without mercy.
I therefore give orders now that no military authority…is to obey orders from this crew of usurpers… This time we shall settle account with them in the manner to which we National Socialists are accustomed.
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He was also worried about the remaining Nazis — Hitler had hated his nephew and called him "loathsome. Twenty years ago, a book by the British author David Gardner revealed that the family still existed — the last Hitlers of the male line. Everything else is rumors. Nobody has spoken with them about this so far. No interviews. No exceptions. A gnarly sweetgum tree stands in front of the Hitlers' dark wooden house.
There is no name sign, just a bell. A simple melody can be heard. Next door, a dog is barking. Second attempt. The door opens slightly. A man, approximately 50 years old, pushes the fly screen aside and puts out his head. Full, dark hair, a smoothly shaven, angular face. Hitler wears shorts. It's Brian, the youngest son, who lives here with his brother Louis.
When I, a BILD reporter, reveal myself as being a journalist from Germany, he says "sorry" and immediately closes the door. Soon afterward, the lawn sprinklers are turned on — all eight of them. The sign is clear — I'm expected to leave. I discreetly ask around with the neighbors, without saying anything about the family's history. Nobody knows anything.
They sometimes wave at each other; that's all. The woman who lives opposite the family knows more. It can be seen in her facial expression when she hears that I'm from Germany. She nods silently and smiles a bit. The Hitlers — she uses the new name, of course — are "excellent people," helpful, nice.
Maybe the third, oldest, brother will break the silence. The last head of the family. He lives in the north of the island, 45 minutes from here by car. There are American flags in front of most houses here, too. It is a small, quiet town with a supermarket and countless vegetable stalls along the main road. Alexander Hitler lives here in a wooden house. The lawn is more overgrown than at his brothers' house. The many pot plants, however, look neat. Busy Lizzies, sweet Williams, begonias, hostas.
The American Hitlers have a green thumb. Ready to get tough with us? So now we have a request. But as the journalism we do is costly, we invite readers for whom The Times of Israel has become important to help support our work by joining The Times of Israel Community. Adolf Hitler addresses soldiers at a Nazi rally in Dortmund, Germany.
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