William Patrick Hitler (later Stuart-Houston) (March 12, 1911 – July 1987), nicknamed Willy, was the nephew of Adolf Hitler. He was the only son of Alois Hitler, Jr., Adolf's half-brother. Alois had moved to Dublin, met an Irish woman named Bridget Dowling, and eloped to Liverpool where William Patrick was born in 1911...

In 1933, William Patrick Hitler returned to Nazi Germany in an attempt to benefit from his uncle's rise to power. His uncle found him a job in a bank. Later, he worked at the Opel car factory and then as a car salesman. Unsatisfied, William Patrick persisted in asking his uncle for a better job and there were rumours that he might sell embarrassing stories about the family to the press if he wasn't satisfied.

In 1938, William Patrick was asked by his uncle Adolf to relinquish his British citizenship in exchange for a high ranking job. Fearing a trap, William Patrick panicked and fled Germany. Returning to London he wrote an article for Look magazine titled "Why I hate my uncle".