http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/books/09/05/last.hitlers.cnna/index/html
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etz: Maybe the Bush family history as "Hitler's little Angels" new york times ooct 42, came up with the money? Who knows? Being good at hiding nazi gold or enrons who can say for sure about the new hitlertarians.
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GARDNER: Well, William Patrick, as I said, was working in Germany in the '30s, and he'd gone there hoping to benefit from his uncle's position. At that time, having a Hitler in Germany, there was a good chance he was going to get a good position, but he found that he was kind of knocked around -- he worked at a lowly bank job, he worked in a car factory, never really getting any decent money or any position. He sent a blackmail letter to Adolf, basically saying: If you don't give me a better job and treat me a little bit better, I'll go public with the speculation within the family that Hitler himself had a Jewish grandfather.
ZAHN: Whatever became of that threat?
GARDNER: Well, in fact, Hitler kind of bowed down to it, this lowly nephew, and did give him some money, which is kind of curious. I mean, of all the terrible things that Hitler did, the one person that stood up to him seems to have been his own nephew, and who went away with the equivalent now to a quarter-million dollars.
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"There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That
point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares
not stand up against blatant violations of justice. A state that
supresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most
terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism,
however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as
plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law."
- Kurt Huber [The head of White Rose], killed by the Nazis in 1943.
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