They’re the Hitlers next door. 
 
 Some of Adolf Hitler’s last surviving relatives have been living under the radar on Long Island for decades, according to a new report. 
 
 Hitler’s great-nephews Alexander, Louis and Brian Stuart-Houston — the only living descendants of the dictator’s paternal side — live quiet lives in the New York suburbs and fly American flags in their yards, according to Germany’s Bild newspaper, which came knocking at their doors recently. 
 
 The three men are the sons of Hitler’s nephew, William Patrick Hitler, who was born in the UK to the Fuehrer’s half-brother, Alois Hitler Jr. 
 
 Alois, who left home at 14 and wound up working as a waiter in Dublin, split when “Willy” Hitler was young, according to the New Yorker. 
 
 But Willy wound up visiting his estranged dad in Germany in 1929, where he attended a Nuremberg rally. He then returned to the UK and began giving interviews to the press as Hitler’s “English nephew” — until he was summoned to Berlin to face a furious Fuehrer, the magazine reports. 
 
 “What did you tell the newspaper? Who gave you permission to appoint yourself an authority on my private affairs?” he fumed, according to Willy’s mom, Brigid. 
 
 “No one must drag my private affairs into the newspapers. I have never said one word they can use. And now there is a ‘nephew’ to tell them all the miserable little details they want to know.” 
 
 Willy later traveled to New York, where he continued to give lectures on his infamous family, and eventually registered for military service — joining the US Navy to fight in World War II 
 
 After the war, he moved to Patchogue with his German wife and changed the family’s name — first to Hiller and then Stuart-Houston, according to Bild. 
 
 He died in 1987 at the age of 76, and his now-middle-aged sons have resolutely refused to speak with the media when reporters have come knocking over the years — but Alexander finally broke his silence when Bild showed up recently asking for his opinion on German politics. 
 
 The 60-something revealed that he likes German Chancellor Angela Merkel and would vote for her if he could. 
 
 “I like her. She’s good. She seems to be an intelligent and smart person,” said Alexander, whose middle name is Adolf, according to Bild. 
 
 But although he and his brothers are all staunch Republicans, Alexander said he doesn’t care for the current president. 
 
 “The last person I would say I admire is Donald Trump. He is definitely not one of my favorites,” he told the newspaper. 
 
 “Some things that Trump says are all right. Most of them are …,” he added, trailing off, when asked what he doesn’t like about Trump. “It’s the way he does it that annoys me. And I just don’t like liars.” 
 
 Brian and Louis, who live together nearby, wouldn’t talk to the reporter. One of their neighbors said she knew their family history, but said they’re “excellent people.” 
 
 “You can’t be blamed for your relatives,” she told the paper. ||||| Picture Alliance/Arkivi, TRD 
 
 There's an American flag raised in the front yard of brothers Brian and Louis' place. 
 
 It's a typical sight for this neighborhood on Long Island, New York. One difference, however, is that a 6-foot-high wooden wall, painted white, almost completely surrounds the property. The men who live here have a secret. 
 
 They are the last Hitlers. 
 
 In the town of 20,000 people, hardly anybody knows about this. The brothers keep their secret to themselves. The family changed its name in 1946 - first to "Hiller," later to an English double name. Brian and Louis are the great nephews of the German dictator. 
 
 Adolf Hitler was the uncle of their father, William Patrick Hitler. Born in the United Kingdom, "Willy" emigrated to the US in 1930. In the Navy, he fought against the Kriegsmarine (the name of the German navy at that time). Back then, they still used their old family name. 
 
 Hitler against Hitler. A coup for the American war propaganda. Afterward, Willy Hitler became a phantom. He withdrew to Long Island with his German wife, Phyllis. He wanted to spare his sons the curse of the worst family name in world history. He was also worried about the remaining Nazis — Hitler had hated his nephew and called him "loathsome." 
 
 Twenty years ago, a book by the British author David Gardner revealed that the family still existed — the last Hitlers of the male line. Everything else is rumors. 
 
 Nobody has spoken with them about this so far. When someone found them — like, for example, reporters for The New York Times in 2006 — they didn't say anything. No interviews. No exceptions. 
 
 A gnarly sweetgum tree stands in front of the Hitlers' dark wooden house. There is no name sign, just a bell. A simple melody can be heard. Silence. Next door, a dog is barking. 
 
 Second attempt. Silence. Steps. The door opens slightly. A man, approximately 50 years old, pushes the fly screen aside and puts out his head. Full, dark hair, a smoothly shaven, angular face. Hitler wears shorts. 
 
 It's Brian, the youngest son, who lives here with his brother Louis. When I, a BILD reporter, reveal myself as being a journalist from Germany, he says "sorry" and immediately closes the door. Soon afterward, the lawn sprinklers are turned on - all eight of them. The sign is clear — I'm expected to leave. 
 
 I discreetly ask around with the neighbors, without saying anything about the family's history. Nobody knows anything. They sometimes wave at each other; that's all. 
 
 The woman who lives opposite the family knows more. It can be seen in her facial expression when she hears that I'm from Germany. "You know the story?" I ask her. She nods silently and smiles a bit. The Hitlers — she uses the new name, of course — are "excellent people," helpful, nice. "You can't be blamed for your relatives." She doesn't want to say more than that. 
 
 Maybe the third, oldest, brother will break the silence. The last head of the family. He lives in the north of the island, 45 minutes from here by car. 
 
 The sign at the street where Alexander Hitler lives says "DEAD END." A Latino boy is working with a leaf blower. There are American flags in front of most houses here, too. It is a small, quiet town with a supermarket and countless vegetable stalls along the main road. 
 
 Alexander Hitler lives here in a wooden house. The lawn is more overgrown than at his brothers' house. The many pot plants, however, look neat. Busy Lizzies, sweet Williams, begonias, hostas. The American Hitlers have a green thumb. 
 
 There is no bell. I knock on the door. Nobody opens. There is also no car in the driveway. I ask the neighbors whether they know where the man next door could be. "Oh, Alex!" exclaims Paul, who is just repairing the air-conditioning of his Honda Civic. "Maybe he's fishing," his wife says, and asks me what I want. Oh, it's about the family history, I reply. 
 
 A curious coincidence: The neighbor comes from Austria. But she also doesn't know anything. We talk about Germany for a while, and when I go back to the adjacent property, there is suddenly a car in the driveway. Mister Hitler drives a Hyundai. 
 
 I go to the front door and knock. I wait for 30 seconds. I try again. And again. Then the door suddenly opens. "What do you want?" a man grumbles. He is tall, maybe 6 feet, and wears a shirt with turquoise-white checks and beige cargo trousers. Alexander Hitler. 
 
 The greeting is frosty. "We never talk to reporters. You were already at my brothers' today, weren't you?" I say yes, and worry that if I ask directly about the family history, he will immediately shut the door and I will have come here for nothing. So I say I'm curious about his views on German politics. 
 
 "German politics?" Alexander Hitler repeats in disbelief and raises his eyebrows. He takes a big gulp from the cup of coffee that he holds in his hand. He takes his coffee black. 
 
 The 68-year-old takes a step back, closes the fly screen and leans against the door frame from the inside. "Go ahead." 
 
 An interview with Hitler — through the fly screen. 
 
 First question: What do you think about Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel? His face brightens. "I like her. She's good. She seems to be an intelligent and smart person." 
 
 How does he assess her role in the refugee crisis? Alexander Hitler, his second name is Adolf, drinks a sip of coffee and looks at the distance. 
 
 Forehead, chin, eyes: A certain resemblance to his relatives is unmistakable. 
 
 Alexander Hitler looks a bit like Bruno Ganz, the Swiss actor who played his great uncle in the movie "Downfall" in 2004. 
 
 Then the answer: "The Chancellor does what she has to do." If he could, he would vote for her. 
 
 Alexander Hitler — a Merkel fan! 
 
 And this despite the fact that he is a convinced Republican — just like his brothers. He hasn't missed an election for decades. "I always vote for the person who does the best job." 
 
 And what about Donald Trump? The US president also has German roots, after all. "Well," Hitler says. "The last person I would say I admire is Donald Trump. He is definitely not one of my favorites." 
 
 What does he criticize? "Some things that Trump says, are all right. Most of them are--" Alexander Hitler doesn't finish the sentence and continues: "It's the way he does it that annoys me. And I just don't like liars." ||||| One of the last living family members of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was engaged to a Jewish woman, but she broke it off after discovering the family’s secret, sinister history, the German newspaper Bild revealed Tuesday. 
 
 It has long been known that Hitler’s last living relatives have been living quiet, unassuming lives on Long Island, New York. 
 
 In his first public interview in over a decade, one of these relatives, grandnephew Alexander Stuart-Houston, whose middle name is Adolf, revealed that a family member planned to marry a Jewish girlfriend, but that she called off the engagement. Stuart-Houston did not specify which brother, and did not identify the Jewish fiancee. 
 
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 Alexander, 68, is the oldest of three surviving grandsons of Hitler’s half-brother Alois Hitler, who moved to Liverpool with his Irish wife Brigid Dowling in the first decade of the 20th century. 
 
 Alois’s son William Hitler was born in 1911 in Liverpool. 
 
 In his twenties, with Adolf Hitler’s rise to become chancellor of Germany, William decided to leave Britain for Germany. He was working as a banker in Berlin in 1935. 
 
 William was unhappy with the work, and was reportedly shunned by his uncle, so he moved with his family to the United States. 
 
 He even enlisted in the US Navy, where he served during World War II. 
 
 In 1946, saddled with the most despised name in the world, William Hitler moved his family to a small town on Long Island and changed his name to Hiller, a favorite adopted name for other Hitlers living in postwar Germany. It was later changed again to Stuart-Houston for unclear reasons. 
 
 His four sons were Alexander, Brian, Louis and Howard. 
 
 Howard was the only one who married and reportedly planned to have children, but he was killed in a car accident in 1989. 
 
 All three surviving brothers still live in their small hometown of Patchogue. 
 
 The fact that none of the surviving brothers married or had children has raised speculation over the years that they had quietly resolved to remain childless, and thus let the Hitler family line come to a natural end. That was the claim of British journalist David Gardner, who tracked them down in the 1990s, and wrote a book entitled, “The Last of the Hitlers: The Story of Adolf Hitler’s British Nephew and the Amazing Pact to Make Sure His Genes Die Out.” 
 
 “They didn’t sign a pact, but what they did is, they talked amongst themselves, talked about the burden they’ve had in the background of their lives, and decided that none of them would marry, none of them would have children. And that’s…a pact they’ve kept to this day,” Gardner claimed. 
 
 Alexander denied knowing of such a pact in a 2002 interview with Gardner, but said his brothers may have made one that did not involve him. Sixteen years later, in the Bild interview, he vehemently denied the existence of such a pact, calling it “bullshit” and revealing that one of the three brothers tried unsuccessfully to marry his Jewish girlfriend. 
 
 Alexander also said the brothers discussed writing a book about their lives as the last of the Hitler line, but “changed our minds. We won’t do it, not for all the money in the world.” 
 
 A lifelong Republican — as are his brothers — he has also lashed out at US President Donald Trump, calling him a “liar.” 
 
 “The last person I would say I admire is Donald Trump. He is definitely not one of my favorites. Some things that Trump says are all right. It’s his manner that annoys me. And I just don’t like liars,” he said.
– Hitler became Hiller, then Stuart-Houston. The name changes allowed Adolf Hitler's last living descendants on his father's side to keep a quiet life in New York, the New York Post reports via German newspaper Bild, which recently visited Hitler's three great-nephews on Long Island. Sons of Hitler's UK-born nephew William Patrick Hitler—who reportedly received a tongue-lashing from his uncle for interviews with the press before joining the US Navy in World War II and then moving to Patchogue—Louis and Brian Stuart-Houston shooed away a reporter with eight lawn sprinklers. But eldest brother Alexander Stuart-Houston, who lives about 45 minutes away from his siblings, answered his door. Commenting on what Bild calls "the curse of the worst family name in world history," the 68-year-old said one of the three brothers was engaged to a Jewish woman, but she ended up calling it off, per AFP. Alexander, whose middle name is Adolf, appeared focused on the present, however, touting his support for German Chancellor Angela Merkel. "She's good. She seems to be an intelligent and smart person," he said. Describing himself and his siblings as steadfast Republicans, he added, "The last person I would say I admire is Donald Trump. He is definitely not one of my favorites ... I just don't like liars."