From Letters of Note: Patrick Hitler’s letter to FDR.
William Patrick Hitler, Adolf Hitler’s nephew, sent this letter to President Roosevelt, attempting to enlist in the armed forces in 1940. He was eventually successful and served from 1944 to 1947.
Everybody in the world today must answer to himself which cause they will serve. To free people of deep religious feeling there can be but one answer and one choice, that will sustain them always and to the bitter end.
I am one of many, but I can render service to this great cause and I have a life to give that it may, with the help of all, triumph in the end.
All my relatives and friends soon will be marching for freedom and decency under the Stars and Stripes. For this reason, Mr. President, I am respectfully submitting this petition to you to enquire as to whether I may be allowed to join them in their struggle against tyranny and oppression?
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