"vincent p. norris" wrote in message
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Thousands--probably hundreds of thousands--of
Americans have fought against their own or their parents' homelands.
They included William Patrick Hitler, who served in the U.S. Navy in
WWII.

Dan, I recall reading many years ago that Adolph Hitler's real name
was Alois Schickelgruber.

Do you know if that's true?


Its untrue, that story was spread by black propaganda units
in WW2

I gather it's well established that Josef Stalin's real name was
Visarionovich Dzugashvili (although probably NOT spelled that way).

He adopted "Stalin" because it means "steel." Did Hitler choose
"Hitler" for some similar reason?


No his parents were Alois and Klara Hitler, his nephew,
William Patrick Hitler was a US citizen and served in the
USN during WW2

Keith