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We all know about Adolf Hitler, but have you ever heard of William Patrick Hitler? His mother was Irish woman, Bridget Dowling, and his father, Alois junior, was Adolf Hitler’s half-brother who – for three years in the early 20th Century – worked at Dublin’s Shelbourne Hotel.