About one hundred km northwest of Vienna, in northern Austria, lies a small village called Dollersheim.

That child was Alois Schicklgruber, the father of Adolf Hitler.

These rumors often threw Hitler into apoplectic rage.

Döllersheim

People must not know who I am, he was reported to have said.

They must not know where I come from.

Over two thousand residents were forcibly resettled and their houses bombed as part of the training exercises.

hitler’s family tree

Village church and cemetery.

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Döllersheim

The house where Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler, grew up

Döllersheim

Döllersheim

Döllersheim

Döllersheim