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Hitler birthplace memorial stone. Coordinates: 48°15′23″N 13°02′10″E. Adolf Hitler's birthplace (2015) The Hitler birthplace memorial stone, a memorial to victims of the Nazis, is placed in front of Salzburger Vorstadt 15, Braunau am Inn, Upper Austria, the building where Adolf Hitler was born in 1889.
In 1779 it passed with the Innviertel (Inn District) to Austria. Braunau was the birthplace of Adolf Hitler, who was born (1889) in the former Gasthaus Pommer. The town has many 16th- to 17th-century houses and two Gothic churches—St. Stephan (1439–92) and the Spitalkirche (1417–30).
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Braunau am Inn. / 48.25833°N 13.03500°E / 48.25833; 13.03500. Braunau am Inn ( German pronunciation: [ˈbʁaʊ̯naʊ̯ am ˈɪn] ⓘ; German for "Braunau on the Inn ") is a town in Upper Austria on the border with Germany. It is known for being the birthplace of Adolf Hitler .
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Adolf Hitler: Early Years, 1889–1913. Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) was born on April 20, 1889, in the Upper Austrian border town Braunau am Inn, located approximately 65 miles east of Munich and nearly 30 miles north of Salzburg. He was baptized a Catholic. His father, Alois Hitler (1837–1903), was a mid-level customs official.
Apr 22, 2024 · FILE - A car passes Adolf Hitler’s birth house in Braunau, Austria, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023. Four Germans were caught laying white roses in memory of Adolf Hitler at the house where the Nazi dictator was born in western Austria on the anniversary of his birth, and one gave a Hitler salute as they posed for photos, police said Monday.
Nov 19, 2023 · The building where Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria. Credit... Marylise Vigneau for The New York Times. By Graham Bowley. Reporting from Braunau am Inn, Austria. Nov. 19, 2023.
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Adolf Hitler was born on 20 April 1889 in Braunau am Inn, a town in Austria-Hungary (present-day Austria), close to the border with the German Empire. He was the fourth of six children born to Alois Hitler and his third wife, Klara Pölzl. Three of Hitler's siblings—Gustav, Ida, and Otto—died in infancy.
