Bridget Elizabeth Dowling Hitler (alternative Brigid) (1891-1969) was Adolf Hitler's sister-in-law via her marriage to Alois Hitler, Jr.. She was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland. 1891 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945), a German politician who was the founder of the Third Reich (1933-1945), is widely regarded as one of the most significant and reviled leaders in world history. ... Alois Hitler, Jr. ... Dublins Hapenny Bridge. ... A true colour image of Ireland, captured by a NASA satellite on January 4, 2003. ...

In 1909, when she was seventeen, she and her father, William Dowling, attended the Dublin Horse Show where they met Alois Hitler, Jr. who claimed to be a wealthy hotelier touring Europe when, in fact, he was a poor waiter at Dublin's Shelbourne Hotel. Alois courted Bridget at various Dublin locales and soon they were discussing marriage. On June 3, 1910 the couple eloped to London. Her father threatened to charge Alois with kidnapping but accepted the marriage after Bridget pleaded with him. 1909 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... June 3 is the 154th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (155th in leap years), with 211 days remaining. ... 1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Greater London and the Regions of England. ...

The couple settled at 102 Upper Stanhope Street in Toxteth, Liverpool and, in 1911 they had their only child, William Patrick Hitler. Alois went to Germany in 1914 to establish himself in business but the outbreak of World War I. Bridget refused to go with him, as he had become violent and started beating their son. Alois decided to abandon his family, he remarried bigamously and sent word after the war that he was dead. This article is about the city in England. ... A database query syntax error has occurred. ... William Patrick Hitler (March 12, 1911 - November 1987), nicknamed Willie, was the nephew of Adolf Hitler. ... The Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland) is one of the worlds leading industrialised countries, located in the heart of Europe. ... 1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ...

He was charged with bigamy in 1924 but escaped conviction due to Bridget's intervention. Polygamy, literally many marriages in ancient Greek, is a marital practice in which a person has more than one spouse simultaneously (as opposed to monogamy where each person has a maximum of one spouse at any one time). ... 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Bridget raised her son alone with no support from her estranged husband. She set up a home in Hornsey, North London, and took in lodgers to make ends meet.

In 1939, she joined her son on a tour of the United States where he was invited to lecture on his famous uncle. They decided to stay and Bridget wrote a manuscript, My Brother-in-Law Adolf, in which she claimed that her famous brother-in-law had moved to Liverpool to live with Bridget and Alois from November 1912 to April 1913 in order to dodge conscription in his native Austria. She claims that she introduced Adolf to astrology, and that she advised him to trim off the edges of his moustache. She was unable to sell the manuscript and most historians dismiss the work as being a fabrication written in an attempt to cash in on her famous relation. There is no evidence that Hitler ever visited his relatives in Liverpool. Professor Robert Waite refutes her claims that Adolf Hitler had stayed with her as well as most of the rest of her book in the appendix to his The Psychopathic God Adolf Hitler. According to David Gardiner, Bridget's daughter-in-law has said that Bridget admitted to her that the book was fanciful. 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The United States of America — also referred to as the United States, the U.S.A., the U.S., America, the States, or (archaically) Columbia—is a federal republic of 50 states located primarily in central North America (with the exception of two states: Alaska and Hawaii). ... 1912 is a leap year starting on Monday. ... 1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Conscription is a general term for involuntary labor demanded by some established authority, e. ... The Republic of Austria (German: Republik Österreich) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. ... An astrological chart (or horoscope) - Y2K Chart — This particular chart is calculated for January 1, 2000 at 12:01:00 A.M. Eastern Standard Time in New York City, New York, USA. (Longitude: 074W0023 - Latitude: 40N4251) Astrology (from Greek: αστρολογία = άστρον, astron, star + λόγος, logos, word) is any...

After the war Bridget and her son settled in Long Island under assumed names. She died there in 1969. This article is about Long Island in New York State. ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ...

External links

• Hitler's Irish Relatives (http://www.dowlingfamily.info/i1910hit.htm) by Tony McCarthy
• Getting to know the Hitlers (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/01/20/whit20.xml) from the Daily Telegraph
• Author talks about 'the Last of the Hitlers' (http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/books/02/05/last.hitlers.cnna/) CNN interview
• The Last of the Hitlers (http://www.suntimes.co.za/1998/10/18/news/news03.htm) by David Gardiner