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How Hitler's half-brother lived in a Liverpool terrace - before it was bombed by the Germans

A newly-unearthed census page shows that Alois Hitler, half-sibling of the German dictator, lived on Merseyside with his wife Bridget and their newborn son in 1911

Adolf Hitler’s half-brother lived in a terraced house in Liverpool, a new document has revealed - before his house was destroyed in a German air raid.

A newly-unearthed census page shows that Alois Hitler, half-sibling of the German dictator, lived on Merseyside with his wife Bridget and their newborn son in 1911.

For an unknown reason, he lists himself as being called 'Anton', rather than his full name, Alois.

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The property they were living in three years before the start of World War One, at Upper Stanhope St, was later destroyed by German bombs in 1942 - and remains wasteland to this day.

Alois Hitler Junior, born seven years before the infamous Nazi leader, had a troubled childhood and is said to have had a rocky relationship with his parents.
 
His mother died when he was two, and his father married Klara Polzi - Adolf's mother, in 1885.



Ironically, at the time of the 1911 census, Hitler’s half-brother Alois listed his job as a ‘chef waiter’ in a Jewish-run Lyons cafe in Toxteth.

In 1910 Alois met a young woman called Bridget Elizabeth Dowling, at the Dublin horse show in Ireland. Alois and Bridget eloped to London and married in June 1910.

Alois has recorded a different name on the census return, Anton. Hs wife Bridget has also recorded a different name, Cissie Hitler.

The first recording of her name is crossed out on the form but the name ‘Cissie Dowling’ is still clearly visible. Having been married less than a year, it seems Bridget was still adjusting to her new married name.

The fascinating document, uncovered by genealogy website findmypast.co.uk, shows Alois Hitler, his wife and son William living in the property just years before the outbreak of World War One.

In 1914, Alois returned to Germany without his family and married another woman - he was later prosecuted for bigamy.

Alois was reportedly arrested by the British at the end of World War Two, but was released when it emerged he had not joined the Nazi party.

He died in 1956, aged 74. Adolf Hitler also had a half-sister, Angela, as well as two older brothers, Otto and Gustav, two younger siblings, Paula and Edmund, and an older sister, Ida.