Klara Hitler

On a chilly Saturday evening on April 20, 1889, inside an apartment above a brewery in a tiny Austrian town near the German border, a farmer's daughter married to her second cousin gave birth to her fourth child. He was the first to survive infancy. They named him Adolf.

The gravestone of Adolf Hitler's parents in the Austrian village where he lived as a child has been removed after it became a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis, the local pastor said today. A descendant of Hitler's father, reportedly an unidentified elderly woman living in Lower Austria, "has relinquished her rights and has had it removed," said Kurt P...

On a chilly Saturday evening on April 20, 1889, inside an apartment above a brewery in a tiny Austrian town near the German border, a farmer's daughter married to her second cousin gave birth to her fourth child. He was the first to survive infancy. They named him Adolf.

The gravestone of Adolf Hitler's parents in the Austrian village where he lived as a child has been removed after it became a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis, the local pastor said today. A descendant of Hitler's father, reportedly an unidentified elderly woman living in Lower Austria, "has relinquished her rights and has had it removed," said Kurt P...