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{{Infobox military person
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| birth_place = [[Linz]], [[Austria-Hungary]]
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| death_place =[[Spain]]
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==Life==
==Life==
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Leo Raubal Jr. was the son of Leo Raubal Sr. and his wife [[Angela Hitler|Angela]], Adolf's half-sister. Raubal Jr. worked in [[Salzburg]] as a teacher of chemistry. He visited his mother sporadically while she was living in [[Berchtesgaden]]. Like his younger cousin [[Heinz Hitler]] but unlike cousin [[William Patrick Hitler]], Leo Raubal was a "favorite nephew of the leader", and Hitler liked to spend his time with him.<ref>{{Cite book | last=Mitchell | first=Otis C. | author-link=Otis C. Mitchell | title=Hitler's stormtroopers and the attack on the German Republic, 1919-1933 | url=https://archive.org/details/hitlersstormtroo00libg | url-access=limited | year=2008 | publisher=McFarland & Co. | location=Jefferson, N.C. | isbn=978-0-7864-3912-6 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/hitlersstormtroo00libg/page/n38 30]}}</ref> According to William Patrick Hitler, Leo did not like his uncle Adolf and blamed the latter for the death of his sister [[Geli Raubal|Geli]]. This cannot be confirmed, with Leo saying in 1967 that Hitler was "absolutely innocent" of Geli's death, according to historian [[Werner Maser]].<ref>{{Cite book | last=Werner Maser | first=Werner | title=Adolf Hitler | year=1972 | publisher=Bechtle | isbn=0-252-00897-9 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/pawnsofyaltasovi00elli_0/page/23 23] | url=https://archive.org/details/pawnsofyaltasovi00elli_0/page/23 }}</ref>
Leo Raubal Jr. was the son of Leo Raubal Sr. and his wife [[Angela Hitler|Angela]], Adolf's half-sister.

Raubal Jr. worked in [[Salzburg]] as a teacher of chemistry. He visited his mother sporadically while she was living in [[Berchtesgaden]].

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Like his younger cousin [[Heinz Hitler]] but unlike cousin [[William Patrick Hitler]], Leo Raubal was a "favorite nephew of the leader", and Hitler liked to spend his time with him.<ref>{{Cite book | last=Mitchell | first=Otis C. | author-link=Otis C. Mitchell | title=Hitler's stormtroopers and the attack on the German Republic, 1919-1933 | url=https://archive.org/details/hitlersstormtroo00libg | url-access=limited | year=2008 | publisher=McFarland & Co. | location=Jefferson, N.C. | isbn=978-0-7864-3912-6 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/hitlersstormtroo00libg/page/n38 30]}}</ref> However, according to William Patrick Hitler, Leo did not like his uncle Adolf and blamed the latter for the death of his sister [[Geli Raubal|Geli]]. This, however, cannot be confirmed, with Leo saying in 1967 that Hitler was "absolutely innocent" of Geli's death, according to historian [[Werner Maser]].<ref>{{Cite book | last=Werner Maser | first=Werner | title=Adolf Hitler | year=1972 | publisher=Bechtle | isbn=0-252-00897-9 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/pawnsofyaltasovi00elli_0/page/23 23] | url=https://archive.org/details/pawnsofyaltasovi00elli_0/page/23 }}</ref>


===World War II and detention in Moscow===
===World War II and detention in Moscow===
Before the war, he became a manager of the Linz Steelworks. In October 1939, he was drafted into the [[Luftwaffe]] and was a lieutenant in the engineering corps. He looked similar to Adolf Hitler and sometimes served as Hitler's double during the war.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/1348850/Hitlers-lost-relatives-found-on-Long-Island-in-terror-of-identification.html|title=Hitler's lost relatives found on Long Island - 'in terror of identification'|last=Langton|first=James|date=2000-07-15|access-date=2019-05-29|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}</ref>
Before the war, he became a manager of the Linz Steelworks. In October 1939, he was drafted into the [[Luftwaffe]] and was a lieutenant in the engineering corps. He looked similar to Adolf Hitler and sometimes served as Hitler's double during the war.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/1348850/Hitlers-lost-relatives-found-on-Long-Island-in-terror-of-identification.html|title=Hitler's lost relatives found on Long Island - 'in terror of identification'|last=Langton|first=James|date=2000-07-15|access-date=2019-05-29|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}</ref>


He was injured in January 1943 during the [[Battle of Stalingrad]],<ref>{{Cite book | last=Deighton | first=Len | author-link=Len Deighton | title=Winter: a novel of a Berlin family | year=1987 | publisher=Knopf | location=New York | isbn=0-394-55177-X | pages=464}}</ref> and [[Friedrich Paulus]] asked Hitler for a plane to evacuate Raubal to Germany.<ref>{{Cite book | last=Hauner | first=Milan | author-link=Milan Hauner | title=Hitler: a chronology of his life and time | year=1983 | publisher=Macmillan | location=London | isbn=0-333-30983-9 | pages=181}}</ref> Hitler refused and Raubal was captured by the Soviets on 31 January 1943.
He was injured in January 1943 during the [[Battle of Stalingrad]],<ref>{{Cite book | last=Deighton | first=Len | author-link=Len Deighton | title=Winter: a novel of a Berlin family | year=1987 | publisher=Knopf | location=New York | isbn=0-394-55177-X | pages=464}}</ref> and [[Friedrich Paulus]] asked Hitler for a plane to evacuate Raubal to Germany.<ref>{{Cite book | last=Hauner | first=Milan | author-link=Milan Hauner | title=Hitler: a chronology of his life and time | year=1983 | publisher=Macmillan | location=London | isbn=0-333-30983-9 | pages=181}}</ref> Hitler refused and Raubal was captured by the Soviets on 31 January 1943. Hitler gave orders to examine the possibility of a prisoner exchange with the Soviets for Stalin's son [[Yakov Dzhugashvili]], who had been captured by the Germans on 16 July 1941.<ref>{{Cite book | last=Elliott | first=Mark R. | author-link=Mark R. Elliott | title=Pawns of Yalta: Soviet refugees and America's role in their repatriation | year=1982 | publisher=University of Illinois Press | location=Urbana | isbn=0-252-00897-9 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/pawnsofyaltasovi00elli_0/page/185 185] | url=https://archive.org/details/pawnsofyaltasovi00elli_0/page/185 }}</ref> Stalin refused to exchange him either for Raubal or for Friedrich Paulus,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bailey |first=Ronald Albert |author-link=Ronald Albert Bailey |url=https://archive.org/details/prisonersofwar00bail/page/123 |title=Prisoners of war |publisher=Time-Life Books |year=1981 |isbn=0-8094-3391-5 |location=Alexandria, Va. |pages=[https://archive.org/details/prisonersofwar00bail/page/123 123]}}</ref><ref name="beevor">{{cite book | title=[[The Second World War]] | publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson | author=Beevor, Antony | author-link=Antony Beevor | year=2012 | location=Great Britain}}</ref> and said "war is war".<ref>{{Cite book | last=Tolstoy | first=Nikolai | author-link=Nikolai Tolstoy | title=The secret betrayal | year=1978 | publisher=Scribner | location=New York | isbn=0-684-15635-0 | pages=296}}</ref> Raubal was detained in [[Moscow]]'s jails and was released by the Soviets on 28 September 1955, and returned to [[Austria]].

Hitler gave orders to examine the possibility of a prisoner exchange with the Soviets for Stalin's son [[Yakov Dzhugashvili]], who had been captured by the Germans on 16 July 1941.<ref>{{Cite book | last=Elliott | first=Mark R. | author-link=Mark R. Elliott | title=Pawns of Yalta: Soviet refugees and America's role in their repatriation | year=1982 | publisher=University of Illinois Press | location=Urbana | isbn=0-252-00897-9 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/pawnsofyaltasovi00elli_0/page/185 185] | url=https://archive.org/details/pawnsofyaltasovi00elli_0/page/185 }}</ref> Stalin<ref name="beevor">{{cite book | title=[[The Second World War]] | publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson | author=Beevor, Antony | author-link=Antony Beevor | year=2012 | location=Great Britain}}</ref> refused to exchange him either for Raubal or for Friedrich Paulus,<ref>{{Cite book | last=Bailey | first=Ronald Albert | author-link=Ronald Albert Bailey | title=Prisoners of war | year=1981 | publisher=Time-Life Books | location=Alexandria, Va. | isbn=0-8094-3391-5 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/prisonersofwar00bail/page/123 123] | url=https://archive.org/details/prisonersofwar00bail/page/123 }}</ref> and said "war is war."<ref>{{Cite book | last=Tolstoy | first=Nikolai | author-link=Nikolai Tolstoy | title=The secret betrayal | year=1978 | publisher=Scribner | location=New York | isbn=0-684-15635-0 | pages=296}}</ref> Raubal was detained in [[Moscow]]'s jails and was released by the Soviets on 28 September 1955, and returned to [[Austria]].


===Post-detention career===
===Post-detention career===
He lived and worked in Linz as a teacher. He died during a vacation in Spain. He was buried on 7 September 1977 in Linz.<ref>Joachimsthaler...</ref> Leo Raubal Jr. had a son Peter (b. 1931) who along with Elfriede Raubal's son, Heiner Hochegger (b. 1945), and William Patrick Hitler's three surviving sons Alexander Adolf (b. 1949), Louis (b. 1951), and Brian William (b. 1965) are the closest living relatives to Adolf Hitler. Peter Raubal is a retired engineer who lives in Linz, Austria.
He lived and worked in Linz as a teacher. He died during a vacation in Spain. He was buried on 7 September 1977 in Linz.<ref>Joachimsthaler...</ref> Leo Raubal Jr. had a son Peter (born 1931)<ref name=bloodlineleft>{{cite web|url=https://www.warhistoryonline.com/featured/end-of-hitlersbloodline.html|title=Is This the End of Hitler’s Bloodline?|first=Heizel|last=Pitogo|publisher=War History Online|date=13 April 2016|accessdate=26 November 2024}}</ref> who along with Elfriede Raubal's son, Heiner Hochegger (born 1945), and [[William Patrick Hitler]]'s three surviving sons Alexander Adolf (born 1949), Louis (born 1951), and Brian William (born 1965) are the closest living relatives to Adolf Hitler. However, unlike Raubal, William Patrick, who fought with the United States during World War II and even changed his last name to Stuart-Houston, was not on good terms with Adolf Hitler, even publicly denouncing him by 1938.<ref name=relation>{{cite news|url=https://allthatsinteresting.com/hitlers-descendants|title=What Happened To Adolf Hitler’s Family? Meet The Final Descendants Of The Führer|first=Katie|last=Serena|publisher=allthatinteresting.com|date=March 4, 2023|accessdate=November 25, 2024}}</ref><ref name=bloodlineleft /> William Patrick's sons, who have no children, would also bear the last name Stuart-Houston.<ref name=relation /><ref name=bloodlineleft /> Peter Raubal, who never married or had children,<ref name=relation /> is a retired engineer who lives in Linz, Austria.<ref name=bloodlineleft />


==See also==
==See also==

Latest revision as of 07:40, 29 November 2024

"Leo Raubal" redirects here. For the father, see Angela Hitler § Life.
Leo Rudolf Raubal Jr.
Born(1906-10-02)2 October 1906
Linz, Austria-Hungary
Died18 August 1977(1977-08-18) (aged 70)
Spain
Buried
Linz
Allegiance Germany
Service / branchLuftwaffe
Years of service1939–1943
RankLeutnant
Battles / warsWorld War II
RelationsAngela Hitler (mother)
Adolf Hitler (half-uncle)

Leo Rudolf Raubal Jr. (2 October 1906 – 18 August 1977) was an Austrian half-nephew of Adolf Hitler who served in the German Luftwaffe during World War II.

Life

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Leo Raubal Jr. was the son of Leo Raubal Sr. and his wife Angela, Adolf's half-sister. Raubal Jr. worked in Salzburg as a teacher of chemistry. He visited his mother sporadically while she was living in Berchtesgaden. Like his younger cousin Heinz Hitler but unlike cousin William Patrick Hitler, Leo Raubal was a "favorite nephew of the leader", and Hitler liked to spend his time with him.[1] According to William Patrick Hitler, Leo did not like his uncle Adolf and blamed the latter for the death of his sister Geli. This cannot be confirmed, with Leo saying in 1967 that Hitler was "absolutely innocent" of Geli's death, according to historian Werner Maser.[2]

World War II and detention in Moscow

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Before the war, he became a manager of the Linz Steelworks. In October 1939, he was drafted into the Luftwaffe and was a lieutenant in the engineering corps. He looked similar to Adolf Hitler and sometimes served as Hitler's double during the war.[3]

He was injured in January 1943 during the Battle of Stalingrad,[4] and Friedrich Paulus asked Hitler for a plane to evacuate Raubal to Germany.[5] Hitler refused and Raubal was captured by the Soviets on 31 January 1943. Hitler gave orders to examine the possibility of a prisoner exchange with the Soviets for Stalin's son Yakov Dzhugashvili, who had been captured by the Germans on 16 July 1941.[6] Stalin refused to exchange him either for Raubal or for Friedrich Paulus,[7][8] and said "war is war".[9] Raubal was detained in Moscow's jails and was released by the Soviets on 28 September 1955, and returned to Austria.

Post-detention career

[edit]

He lived and worked in Linz as a teacher. He died during a vacation in Spain. He was buried on 7 September 1977 in Linz.[10] Leo Raubal Jr. had a son Peter (born 1931)[11] who along with Elfriede Raubal's son, Heiner Hochegger (born 1945), and William Patrick Hitler's three surviving sons Alexander Adolf (born 1949), Louis (born 1951), and Brian William (born 1965) are the closest living relatives to Adolf Hitler. However, unlike Raubal, William Patrick, who fought with the United States during World War II and even changed his last name to Stuart-Houston, was not on good terms with Adolf Hitler, even publicly denouncing him by 1938.[12][11] William Patrick's sons, who have no children, would also bear the last name Stuart-Houston.[12][11] Peter Raubal, who never married or had children,[12] is a retired engineer who lives in Linz, Austria.[11]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Mitchell, Otis C. (2008). Hitler's stormtroopers and the attack on the German Republic, 1919-1933. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co. pp. 30. ISBN 978-0-7864-3912-6.
  2. ^ Werner Maser, Werner (1972). Adolf Hitler. Bechtle. pp. 23. ISBN 0-252-00897-9.
  3. ^ Langton, James (2000-07-15). "Hitler's lost relatives found on Long Island - 'in terror of identification'". ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2019-05-29.
  4. ^ Deighton, Len (1987). Winter: a novel of a Berlin family. New York: Knopf. p. 464. ISBN 0-394-55177-X.
  5. ^ Hauner, Milan (1983). Hitler: a chronology of his life and time. London: Macmillan. p. 181. ISBN 0-333-30983-9.
  6. ^ Elliott, Mark R. (1982). Pawns of Yalta: Soviet refugees and America's role in their repatriation. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. pp. 185. ISBN 0-252-00897-9.
  7. ^ Bailey, Ronald Albert (1981). Prisoners of war. Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books. pp. 123. ISBN 0-8094-3391-5.
  8. ^ Beevor, Antony (2012). The Second World War. Great Britain: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
  9. ^ Tolstoy, Nikolai (1978). The secret betrayal. New York: Scribner. p. 296. ISBN 0-684-15635-0.
  10. ^ Joachimsthaler...
  11. ^ a b c d Pitogo, Heizel (13 April 2016). "Is This the End of Hitler's Bloodline?". War History Online. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  12. ^ a b c Serena, Katie (March 4, 2023). "What Happened To Adolf Hitler's Family? Meet The Final Descendants Of The Führer". allthatinteresting.com. Retrieved November 25, 2024.

Sources

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