W.I. Hitlers nephew captured by Germany.

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

Hitlers nephew ended up joining the U.S. Navy in 1944, what if he had chosen to join the air force instead and been shot down over Germany and captured. Unlikely of course the U.S. government would allowed that but still what would have been the results if it happened.

Shot as a race traitor and war criminal?
Declared as saved from American corruption and forced to make political speeches in favor of the Nazi's.
Sent to a prisoner camp and forgotten about.
Other.
 
Well going by the Wiki article, it sounds like he was an opportunist. Certainly William could end up joining his uncle due to the prestige. After the war he he can wriggle his way out of things he just move back to Liverpool or rejoin his mother in the U.S.
 
I see no real reason why the Americans wouldn't allow him to fly a plane, though he wouldn't get top security clearance. Anyways, he would need to mention that Hitler was his uncle and convince the Germans to believe it. Possibly by mentioning the article he wrote called "Why I Hate My Uncle".
 
One of Stalin's sons and both von Ribbentrop and Churchill's nephews were POWs and one of Leo Amery's sons was a Nazi collaborator (though his other son Julian had a fairly distinguished war record). It wouldn't have made a huge difference to anything. William Patrick Hitler was a very ordinary man whose only claim to historic remembrance was in who his uncle was.
During the Liverpool Blitz a conversation was overheard in an air raid shelter "Do you remember how we used to laugh when Willie Hitler said his uncle was a general in Germany?"
 
Well going by the Wiki article, it sounds like he was an opportunist. Certainly William could end up joining his uncle due to the prestige. After the war he he can wriggle his way out of things he just move back to Liverpool or rejoin his mother in the U.S.

By the time he would be flying in the war, it would be obvious Germany had lost the war. I do not see him voluntarily joining up with a loathed losing side.
 
By the time he would be flying in the war, it would be obvious Germany had lost the war. I do not see him voluntarily joining up with a loathed losing side.
Just playing off your o.p., anyway I was just emphasising how opportunistic he seemed to be. If he was to join, it would be certainly survivalist. Just in the same way he would be out faster then one could say treaty.
 

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I see no real reason why the Americans wouldn't allow him to fly a plane, though he wouldn't get top security clearance. Anyways, he would need to mention that Hitler was his uncle and convince the Germans to believe it. Possibly by mentioning the article he wrote called "Why I Hate My Uncle".
Yeah if Joe Kennedy Jr. And a English Prince where allowed to fly and both were killed, I don't see why a PVT. Patrick Hitler would have been kept from being a waist gunner on a flying fortress.

James Roosevelt served as a Marine Raider. Hitler's obscure nephew is no national treasure. If he some how bails out and makes it to the ground and is not shot by the SS or ripped apart by civilian's then he goes to a Stalag where he dies.

Hitler was not particularly generous to his siblings, why would he care about a 1/2 English Nephew?
 

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Adolf's other nephew, Leo Rudolf Raubal, was conscripted into the Luftwaffe. He was injured in January 1943 during the Battle of Stalingrad, and Friedrich Paulus asked Hitler for a plane to evacuate Raubal to Germany. Hitler refused and Raubal was captured by the Soviets on 31 January 1943. Hitler gave orders to check out the possibility of a prisoner exchange with the Soviets for Stalin's son Yakov Dzhugashvili, who was in German captivity since 16 July 1941. Stalin refused to exchange him either for Raubal or for Friedrich Paulus, and said "war is war."
Wikipedia page on the Hitler Family

So, OTL, Hitler had a nephew that was in the Luftwaffe. He was wounded and Hitler refused to evacuate him especially. Doesn't sound like he cared that much about Nephews.
 

Edward IX

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I read this tonight and did not know this...

Manfred Goring flew 49 combat missions for the United States. He was the nephew of Herman. He flew with a co- pilot who was supposed to shoot him if he "did anything to prevent the return of the flight to base."

So there is that.
 
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