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Family: Adolph Hitler / Unity Valkyrie Mitford (F330325)



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  • Adolph Hitler
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    Adolph Hitler

    Birth  20 Apr 1889  Braunau am Inn, Oberösterreich, Österreich Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  30 Apr 1945  Führerbunker, Berlin,, Deutschland Find all individuals with events at this location
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    Type  relationship 
    Other Spouse  Charlotte Eudoxie Alida Lobjoie | F288739 (Affair) 
    Marriage  Abt 1918   
    Other Spouse  Maria Reiter | F288742 
    Marriage  Betw 1927-1929   
    Other Spouse  Angela Maria Geli Raubal | F286184 
    Marriage  Abt 1929   
    Other Spouse  Winifred Marjorie Williams | F286164 
    Marriage     
    Other Spouse  Renate Mueller | F286186 
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    Other Spouse  Eva Anna Paula Braun | F286171 
    Marriage  29 Apr 1945  Berlin, Brandenburg, Deutschland Find all individuals with events at this location
    Father  Alois Hitler | F286170 Group Sheet 
    Mother  Klara Pölzl | F286170 Group Sheet 

    Unity Valkyrie Mitford Female
    Unity Valkyrie Mitford

    Birth  8. August 1914  London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  28 May 1948  Oban, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location
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    Father  David Bertram Ogilvy Freeman-Mitford | F66883 Group Sheet 
    Mother  Sydney Bowles | F66883 Group Sheet 

  • Notes  Married:
    • In December 2007, Bright published an article in New Statesman stating that following a previous article on Unity Mitford, he had received a phone call from a Ms Val Hann, a member of the public, offering new information on the story. The caller said that during the war, her aunt, Betty Norton, had run Hill View Cottage, a private maternity hospital in Oxford where Mitford had been a client.[2] According to Hann's family legend, passed from Betty to Val's mother and then on to Val herself, Mitford had checked into the hospital after her return to England where she had given birth to Hitler's child, who was subsequently given up for adoption. Bright states he was initially sceptical.[2][20]



      Bright traveled to Wigginton where the current owner of Hill View confirmed that Norton had indeed run the cottage as a maternity hospital during the war. Bright met with elderly village resident Audrey Smith, whose sister had worked at Hill View. She confirmed seeing "Unity wrapped in a blanket and looking very ill" but insisted that she was there to recover from a nervous breakdown and not to give birth. Bright also contacted Unity's sister Deborah who denounced the villager's gossip and claimed she could produce her mother's diaries to prove it. Bright returned to the National Archives where he found a file on Unity sealed under the 100-year rule. He received special permission to open it and discovered that in October 1941, while living at the family home in Swinbrook, she had been consorting with a married RAF test pilot – throwing doubt on her reported invalidity.[2]



      Bright then abandoned the investigation, until he mentioned the story to an executive from Channel 4 who thought it was a good subject for a documentary film. Further investigation was then undertaken as part of the filming for Hitler's British Girl.[1] This included a visit to an Oxfordshire register office, showing an abnormally large number of birth registrations at Hill View at that time, apparently confirming its use as a maternity hospital. No records were found for Mitford, although the records officer stated many births were not registered at this time. The publication of the article and the broadcast of the film the following week stimulated media speculation that Hitler's child could be living in the United Kingdom


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