This article is about a half-nephew of Adolf Hitler. He is not to be confused with Heinrich Himmler.
Heinz Hitler
Hitler in uniform during the war
Birth name
Heinrich Hitler
Nickname(s)
Heinz
Born
(1920-03-14)14 March 1920 Magdeburg, Weimar Republic
Died
21 February 1942(1942-02-21) (aged 21) Butyrka Prison, Moscow, SovietUnion
Allegiance
Nazi Germany
Service/branch
Army
Years of service
1939–1942
Rank
Unteroffizier
Battles/wars
World War II
Operation Barbarossa
Battle of Moscow (POW)
Awards
Iron Cross 2nd Class
Relations
William Patrick Hitler (half-brother)
Adolf Hitler (half-uncle)
Heinrich Hitler (14 March 1920 – 21 February 1942) was the son of Alois Hitler Jr. and his second wife Hedwig Heidemann whom he had married bigamously. He was the younger half-brother of William Stuart-Houston. He was also a half-nephew of Nazi Germany's leader Adolf Hitler, who reportedly called Heinz his favorite nephew.
Heinz was a strong supporter of the Nazis. He attended an elite boarding school, the National Political Institutes of Education (Napola) at Ballenstedt in Saxony-Anhalt.[1] When World War II began, he joined the Wehrmacht.
Aspiring to become an officer, Heinz became a signals subofficer with the 23rd Potsdamer Artillery Regiment in 1941. He was sent to serve on the Eastern Front, participating in the invasion of the Soviet Union, known as Operation Barbarossa. On 10 January 1942, he was ordered to collect radio equipment from an army post. He was captured by Soviet forces and died at the Butyrka military prison in Moscow in February 1942, at the age of 21. Adolf Hitler approved of an offer for Heinz and Yakov Dzhugashvili, the son of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, to return to their respective home countries under the supervision of the Swedish Red Cross, but Stalin, still enraged that Yakov surrendered, rejected it.[2]
^Maser (1971), pp.60, 447
^Chuev, Felix (1993). Resis, Albert (ed.). Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics. Chicago. ISBN 1-56663-715-5. OCLC 28148163.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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