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 (MDCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 and Führer (Leader) of Germany from 1934 until his death. ... Alois Hitler, Jr. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 53. ...

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 (MCMIX) 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. ... -1... This article is about the British city. ...

The couple settled at 102 Upper Stanhope Street in Toxteth, Liverpool and, in 1911 they had their only child, William Patrick Hitler. Ironically, the house was destroyed in the last German air-raid on Liverpool on January 10, 1942, and has remained a bomb site ever since. Liverpool waterfront by night, as seen from the Wirral. ... 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... William Patrick Hitler (March 12, 1911–November 1987), nicknamed Willie, was the nephew of Adolf Hitler. ... January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ...

Alois went to Germany in 1914 to establish himself in business but these plans were interrupted by 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. 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Combatants Allies: Serbia, Russia, France, Romania, Belgium, British Empire, United States, Italy, and others Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire Casualties Military dead:5 million Civilian dead:3 million Total dead:8 million Military dead:4 million Civilian dead:3 million Total dead:7 million The First World...

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 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Bridget raised her son alone with no support from her husband from whom she was eventually divorced (although she was religiously opposed to divorce). She set up a home in Hornsey, North London, and took in lodgers to make ends meet. Hornsey is a place in the London Borough of Haringey. ...

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 Hitler ever visited his relatives in Liverpool. 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Astrology refers to any of several systems, traditions or beliefs in which knowledge of the apparent positions of celestial bodies is held to be useful in understanding, interpreting, and organizing knowledge about human affairs and events on Earth. ...

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 Bridget admitted to her the book was fanciful.

After the war Bridget and her son settled in Long Island under assumed names. She died there in 1969. Mercator projection of Long Island Long Island is an island in New York, at 1,377 square miles (3567 km²) the largest island in the continental United States, and with 7. ...

External links

• Hitler's Irish Relatives by Tony McCarthy
• Getting to know the Hitlers from the Daily Telegraph
• Author talks about 'the Last of the Hitlers' CNN interview
• The Last of the Hitlers by David Gardiner