What's it like to be named Hitler?

I thought you must have been joking so I did a little phone directory search.

I don’t think I could post private residence listings on the board, but you’re right, there are Hitlers out there.

I couldn’t imagine being their neighbors. “Honey, I’m making a roast, the Hitlers are coming over tonight”.

In defense of these “Hitlers”, Adolf Hitler’s father was born Alois Schicklgruber, and changed his name to Alois Hitler under rather murky circumstances. Furthermore, the name “Hitler” as used by Adolf’s family was a corruption of either “Hiedler” or “Huettler”; and even Adolf himself spelled his name “Hittler” as a young man. (I have Ian Kershaw’s biography of Hitler at hand for a WWII course). So these American Hitlers are probably no relation (and maybe one or two are nuts who have changed their name to honor Adolf).

Also, phone listings are not legal documents. I swear in my El Paso listingings there was a “Hitler Gonzalez” listed once. (I’ll scan it if you don’t believe me!)