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Leo Rudolf Raubal Jr. (2 October 1906 – 18 August 1977) was an Austrian engineer and teacher. He was the half-nephew of Adolf Hitler, and served in the German Luftwaffe during World War II.
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Leo Rudolf Raubal Jr. (2 October 1906 – 18 August 1977) was an Austrian engineer and teacher. He was the half-nephew of Adolf Hitler, and served in the German Luftwaffe during World War II.
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Life Leo Raubal Jr. was born in Linz, Austria-Hungary on 2 October 1906. He was the son of Leo Raubal Sr. and his wife Angela, Adolf's half-sister. In August 1910, when he was only 3 years old, he lost his father to tuberculosis. Raubal Jr. worked as an engineer and became a manager of the Linz Steelworks. He visited his mother sporadically while she was living in Berchtesgaden. Like his younger cousin Heinz Hitler but unlike his other younger cousin William Patrick Hitler, Leo Raubal was a "favorite nephew of the leader", and Adolf liked to spend his time with him. However, William claimed that Raubal did not like their uncle Adolf and blamed him for the death of his sister Geli. This contrasts with Raubal himself saying in 1967 that Adolf was "absolutely innocent" of Geli's death, according to historian Werner Maser. World War II and detention in Moscow In October 1939, Raubal was drafted into the Luftwaffe and was a lieutenant in the engineering corps. He looked similar to Adolf Hitler and sometimes served as his uncle's double during the war. He was injured in January 1943 during the Battle of Stalingrad, and Friedrich Paulus asked Adolf for…
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Post-detention career Raubal lived and worked in Salzburg as a teacher of chemistry. He died of tuberculosis during a vacation in Spain. He was buried on 7 September 1977 in Linz. Leo Raubal Jr. had a son Peter (born 1931) who along with Elfriede Raubal's son, Heiner Hochegger (born 1945), and William Patrick Hitler's four sons, Alexander Adolf (born 1949), Louis (born 1951), Howard Ronald (1957–1989), and Brian William (born 1965), were the closest living relatives to Adolf Hitler. However, unlike Raubal, William Patrick, who fought with the United States during World War II and changed his last name to Stuart-Houston, was not on good terms with Adolf Hitler, publicly denouncing him by 1938. Peter Raubal, never married or had children, and is a retired engineer who lives in Linz, Austria.
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Sources Werner Maser: Adolf Hitler. Mythos, Legende, Wirklichkeit, Bechtle, Munich 200118; ISBN 3-7628-0521-0 Werner Maser: Fälschung, Dichtung und Wahrheit über Hitler und Stalin, Olzog, 2004, ISBN 3-7892-8134-4, page 272 Joachimsthaler, Anton (2003). Hitlers Liste: Ein Dokument Personlicher Beziehungen. Herbig. p. 270. ISBN 3-7766-2328-4. Walter Mayr: SERIE - TEIL 10 HITLERS FRÜHE JAHRE - DER FÜHRER, MEIN ONKEL, Der Spiegel Nr. 28/2001 - 9 July 2001, page 142 Marc Vermeeren: De jeugd van Adolf Hitler 1889–1907 en zijn familie en voorouders, Uitgeverij Aspekt, Soesterberg 2007, ISBN 90-5911-606-2 Oliver Halmburger, Thomas Staehler: Familie Hitler. Im Schatten des Diktators, Oliver Halmburger Loopfilm GmbH, Munich, and ZDF-History, Mainz 2005 (film), DVD, ASIN B000U6SOKW Zdral, Wolfgang (2005). Die Hitlers. Campus Verlag GmbH. p. 237. ISBN 3-593-37457-9. Personal information from prof. Dr. Werner Maser (via German Wikipedia)