Then there was nice Mr. Hilter I met at that bed and breakfast in England. He was planning a hike but had accidently procured a map of Stalingrad. He wouldn’t have had much fun there!
Not much fun in Dzhugashviligrad, no…
Indeed not: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlmGknvr_Pg
Yes, this fact makes me within “6 degrees of having dined together” with Hitler, even without Hitler and Stalin ever meeting in person (which I seem to remember as a historical footnote).
I have had dinner with my wife…
… who has had dinner with a math professor at NYU …
… who once had dinner with the Svetlana named above …
… who surely had dinner with her father, Josef Stalin …
… who probably had a luncheon, if not a state dinner, with Ribbentrop …
… who certainly had dinner with Hitler at some point.
And, from my vantage point, the Dope hereby implodes into a black hole …
In the last couple of days we’ve had the following set of events:
[ul]This very zombie thread has been bounced, resulting in someone having to note that a new post repeats the point I made in 2005.[/ul]
[ul]Another zombie thread has seen someone seconding a post I made in 2002.[/ul]
[ul]robardin’s “I seem to remember as a historical footnote” presumably derives from this post by myself pointing out that indeed Stalin and Hitler hadn’t met.[/ul]
[ul]A post in which I pointed out I could shortcut robardin’s above connection with Hitler.[/ul]
We thereby seem to have passed the point whereby the content of my past posts, as currently cited, has exceeded my rate of new posts. Nice. 
I imagine any judge would be very understanding if they or their brothers wanted to change their surname. No reason to wait until marriage.
I believe some did. But the father was adamant he wouldn’t.
Side note, but the first time I saw the episode that introduced Girl Hitler, I misheard her name. When I realized it was GIRL Hitler, I was disappointed, as I thought Her Hitler was a much better joke.
Big deal. It’s not like he can stop them.
My scientific wild-assed guess is Emily9889 is an adoptee. Her new family changed her name when she was adopted.
Ooo, I like this. And I think I can do even better:
I met President Obama in October…
… who met Queen Elizabeth II last year
… whose father King George VI reigned during World War II
… whose Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, met with Hitler and returned to Great Britain, waving a treaty and proclaiming that it meant “peace in our time.”
Back to the OP – it may never have been a very common name to begin with – the account I’d remembered, and Wiki supports, was that Hitler per se had only recently (as in, during his father’s lifetime) become the family name – Hitler’s father changed his name from “Hiedler” (the grandfather’s name) in middle age (and/or, says Wiki, some clerk misspelled a phonetic hearing of Hiedler when Hitler’s father Alois went to register with some gov’t office). It says various relations used, at various times, Hiedler, Hüttler, Huettler and Hitler (all from a common root meaning . . . well, Wiki can’t make it’s mind up about what the common root might have been and offers several options).
I’m sure that the Queen met or dined with someone who dined with Hitler. You shouldn’t need two steps in between them.
Edit: You can replace George VI and Chamberlain with Lord Halifax.
Her uncle the Duke of Windsor springs to mind.
Done and done! Thanks.
Vic Hitler is infinitely more funny, though. 
addendum: because “Bing Hitler” is immediately recognized as a spoof, whereas Vic Hitler is not.