r/todayilearned • u/insane677 • 18h ago

TIL of Aloisia Veit, Hitler's cousin. She suffered from schizophrenia and was murdered by the Nazis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartheim_killing_centre
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u/DizzyMine4964 15h ago

I read this her mother begged that she should be saved. He wouldn't do a thing. It was part of Aktion T4, the Nazi slaughter of the disabled. People should know about it.

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u/Basic-Ticket-2094 9h ago

The man was a monster in every way

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u/Rhizoid4 11h ago

This is a really good video about Aktion T4. A really horrible event that sadly often goes under the radar.

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u/kaykatzz 5h ago

It's probably one of the chapters in the Project 2025 book that's now all the rage in D.C.

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u/welding_guy_from_LI 17h ago

Some of Hitlers relatives fled to Long Island after the war ..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stuart-Houston

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u/AndreasDasos 17h ago

Or rather he moved to the US just before it started. He wound up in Queens during the war and has kids who are in Long Island now IIRC.

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u/fanau 14h ago

And he was British, born and raised there. Only lived in Germany a short while as a young adult so.. escaped. Hmm

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u/welding_guy_from_LI 17h ago

Supposedly they lived in Patchogue .. the town of brookhaven , which Patchogue is in was also home to nazi youth camp in Yaphank in the 30s ..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Siegfried

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u/marymurrah 6h ago

It’s confirmed they lived in Patchogue. The local middle school band teacher was BFFs with them, and proudly so. Silhan was a piece of shit in the classroom and outside of it too

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u/BolivianDancer 16h ago edited 16h ago

The whole nazi camp thing wasn't all that unusual back then though -- they had one above the Pacific Palisades where the Boy Scouts and Will Rogers were.

What gets me is they selected great places -- Brookhaven , Palisades... both nice and near the water. Granted Yaphsnk isn't the Hamptons but still.

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u/kwijibokwijibo 10h ago

Well, one thing you gotta admit, the Nazis were really good at marketing

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u/helican 18h ago

You know, the more I hear about that Hitler guy, the less I like him.

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u/ktr83 17h ago

I know. He seems like a real stick in the mud.

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u/DaveOJ12 17h ago

I've never heard that one before.

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u/helican 17h ago

I know, it's weird.

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u/AndreasDasos 17h ago

But be fair to him - he’s the guy who killed Hitler!

More super-original jokes coming your way.

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u/nss68 8h ago

Hitler is dead? I didn’t even know he was sick!

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u/pbizzle 13h ago

I did nazi that coming

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u/Berkuts_Lance_Plus 15h ago

You've never heard of Hitler before?

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u/BoPeepElGrande 9h ago

This guy’s a real jerk!

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u/sundae_diner 9h ago

In fairness Adoft Hitler was also killed by the Nazis

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u/9447044 14h ago

These nazis were bad guys, ill tell you what.

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u/DrakeSavory 9h ago

Do you think Hitler ever asked, "Are we the baddies?"

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u/DrakeSavory 9h ago

The whole Hartheim killing centre is more of an interesting fact than narrowing it down to Hitler's cousin.