De Blasio was born Warren Wilhelm, Jr. in Manhattan, the son of Maria (née de Blasio) and Warren Wilhelm.[1] His father was of German ancestry, ... In 1983, he changed his name to Warren de Blasio-Wilhelm... By the time he appeared on the public stage in 1990, he was using the name Bill de Blasio as he explained he had been called "Bill" or "Billy" in his personal life.[13] He did not legally change over to this new name until 2002, when the discrepancy was noted during an election.[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_de_Blasio#Early_life_and_education
Warren Wilhelm, the father of Bill DeBlasio, supported appeasing Hitler.
Bill DeBlasio’s father, Warren Wilhelm, supported the appeasement of Adolph Hitler in an October 26, 1938 debate, Gotnews.com has learned.
DeBlasio’s father, then a Labor member of the Yale Political Union, gave a stirring speech in favor of appeasing Hitler.
Appeasing Hitler was the “least terrible” of five alternatives, Wilhelm concluded as reported in an article in The Yale Daily News.
The New York Times didn’t reveal DeBlasio’s father’s appeasement views ahead of the 2013 mayoral election.
Javier C. Hernandez of the Times quoted Wilhelm as later saying that “Hitler was running an aggressive show that threatened to endanger Western civilization, and I thought it ought to be stopped.”
Wilhelm later enlisted four months after Pearl Harbor and was awarded the Silver Star and a Purple Heart.
Hernandez never says how he knows Wilhelm’s views.
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