Does anyone have the surname ‘Hitler’ anymore?
If not, did other (unfortunate) families with the surname Hitler just change their name?
What about Stalin or Pinochet?
Just curious…
Jim
Benito Mussolini’s granddaughter still uses the family moniker, according to this story.
A quick white pages check will find you several Hitlers. Try looking before you leap.
In that article, it mentions that her hunger strike included 3 cappchinos a day. :eek:
Not getting the concept…
Adolf’s half-brother (and second cousin!) Alois met an Irishwoman called Brigid Elizabeth Downey at the Dublin Horse Show in 1910 and they married the following year. A son, William Patrick, was born in Liverpool the following year. But I believe he changed his name after moving to the USA, possibly after enlisting in the US Navy in 1944.
There’s some FBI Dope on this here.
There’s a road outside of my town that was once Hitler Road but after WWII, they changed the name to “Histler.”
I read an interview in The New Yorker maybe ten years ago with a German tour-bus driver named Adolph Hitler—distant relative, named after him during the war. He was furious with his children for changing their last names: “It’s a perfectly good, old family name and I won’t change it,” he said, though he did cover his name plate when he had a tour group from Israel.
Stalin was just a nom de guerre of Josif Vissarionovits Dzhugashvili, and he used many other such names during Russian revolution. The nickname Stalin, meaning “steel” (or man of steel, I’m not sure) apparently stick with him best. His descendants don’t use that surname, so there aren’t any Stalins around unless somebody else has managed to name themselves after him.
Another anecdote:
There was an old, German farmer in Iowa named Adolf Hitler. During WWII a reporter asked him if he planned to change his name. He answered, “I had it first. Let the other guy change his name.”
I’ve read that Hitler’s closest living relatives reside in Long Island. But apparently all of the current family members are childless so this is likely to be the last generation of the direct Hitler family.
Michael Bolton: Yeah, well at least your name isn’t Michael Bolton.
Samir: You know there’s nothing wrong with that name.
Michael Bolton: There was nothing wrong with it… until I was about 12 years old and that no-talent ass clown became famous and started winning Grammys.
Samir: Hmm… well why don’t you just go by Mike instead of Michael?
Michael Bolton: No way. Why should I change? He’s the one who sucks.
Actually his children did use Stalin as a surname. His daughter was born Svetlana Josifovna Stalina. She changed her surname to her mother’s made name, Alliluyeva, after he died. Later after she defected to the US she married for a third time and changed her name to Lana Peters.
From the Social Security Death Index:
Janet S. Hitler, 1910-2005, res. Naples, Collier Co., Florida.
Mazie M. Hitler, 1917-2002, res. Circleville, Pickaway Co., Ohio.
Turney Guy Hitler, 1947-2001.
Louis S. Hitler, 1918-1998, res. Circleville, Pickaway Co., Ohio.
Verna L. Hitler, 1925-1994, res. Lakeside, San Diego Co., California.
. . . and six others.
I believe she skipped the cinnamon she was so fond of.
someone asked about this in response to a Cecil column not too long ago.
Just don’t try to do standup comedy …
Actually, from back in Scotland in the Eighties, I can remember a fairly amusing young standup comic called Craig Ferguson who used the stagename Bing Hitler.
Always wondered what happened to him … 
He changed his name to Craig Kilborn.
I am a Hitler, born Emily Ryan Hitler, on March 12, 1981. My family had my name changed as a child (for obvious reasons) but I have always been curious about others.