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WWII: Did Duddington Possess a Home Guard Platoon? (19.10.2023)

I keep a website dedicated to my paternal (‘Wyles’) family name – centred on the Northants village of Duddington – where my family lived for at least the last 500 years (and perhaps longer). Although my last direct relative left around 1906 – and that I live in South Greater London – we have visited Duddington around ten-times for research field trips since March 14th, 2009, and have amassed a large dossier of historical data! This can all be accessed at the above link. I am still researching whether Duddington possessed a Home Guard Platoon during WWII – and as of yet – this puzzle has NOT been solved!

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Adolf Hitler: What Was His Real Surname? (10.9.2023)

This might explain why the priest mistook the Austrian name of ‘Hiedler’ for ‘Hitler’ not realising that no such name as ‘Hitler’ existed. In effect, through a lack of familiarity with a language and culture a ‘new’ surname was created by this scribing error. As his father was ‘born’ with the name ‘Schicklgruber’ – surely Hitler, although not born with this name – possessed a legitimate right to lay claim to it. Therefore, the person history knows as ‘Adolf Hitler’ possesses the legal to claim the ‘Hiedler’ and ‘Schicklgruber’ surnames – even though there is NO evidence that he ever did. Indeed, the evidence seems to suggest that Adolf Hitler went out of his way to ‘hide’ these names from his biographies.

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