Döllersheim was, since the mid 19th century, an Austrian municipality in the Waldviertel, the northwestern part of Lower Austria near the border with Bohemia. It included the hamlet of Strones, where Alois Hitler, the father of Adolf Hitler, was born to Maria Schicklgruber in 1837. Strones was very small at the time of Alois' birth and did not even have church with a baptismal registry. According, Maria went to the Döllersheim parish to record th...
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Döllersheim was, since the mid 19th century, an Austrian municipality in the Waldviertel, the northwestern part of Lower Austria near the border with Bohemia. It included the hamlet of Strones, where Alois Hitler, the father of Adolf Hitler, was born to Maria Schicklgruber in 1837. Strones was very small at the time of Alois' birth and did not even have church with a baptismal registry. According, Maria went to the Döllersheim parish to record the birth with the local priest, who duly entered the information on the baptism registry. The same registry was updated some 39 years later when, in 1876, Alois was legitimated and his surname was duly changed to Hitler.
After the 1938 Anschluss which incorporated Austria into Nazi Germany ("Großdeutsches Reich"), Hitler ordered Döllersheim and several neighbouring villages to be evacuated in favour of a large proving ground operated by the Wehrmacht, even though (or perhaps because) it contained the grave of his paternal grandmother Maria....
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