THE debate over whether Adolf Hitler spent nearly six months in Liverpool as a young man will be re-ignited tonight in a new television documentary.
Actor Paul McGann will be shown returning to his home city and visiting the sites associated with Hitler’s supposed time in Liverpool.
He will also be seen interviewing former Liverpool Daily Post and Echo editor Mike Unger – who is convinced Hitler did live in the city – and historian Professor Frank McDonough, who is equally sure the story is a myth.
Supporters believe the 23-year-old Hitler was in Liverpool from November 1912 to May 1913 in a bid to beat being conscripted into the Austrian army.
It is said he stayed with his older half-brother Alois and sister-in-law Bridget, who lived in a rented flat at 102 Upper Stanhope Street, Toxteth,
It is claimed Adolf enjoyed a pint at Peter Kavanagh’s pub in Toxteth and even took a job at the Adelphi hotel.
The discovery that Hitler may have lived in the city was first made in 1973 by Mr Unger, who found it in a wartime memoir written by Hitler’s sister-in-law Bridget Dowling.
In the documentary, Mr Unger – who recently published a book called The Hitlers Of Liverpool – said of Adolf’s supposed stay: “It was a great story and still is a great story.
