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FUR FRIEDEN, FRIEHEIT

UND DEMOKRATIE

NIE WIEDER FASCHISMUS

MILLIONEN TOTE MAHNEN

“For Peace, Freedom and Democracy. Never Again Fascism. Millions of Dead Remind Us.”

Just before the one hundredth anniversary of Adolph Hitler’s birth in 1889, a memorial stone with the above inscription was laid on the site of Hitler’s birth in Braunau Am Inn, a small town in Austria near Bavaria on the south German border.

Adolph Hitler’s paternity is uncertain. His father, Alois, born in 1837, was the son of Marie Ann Schickelgruber and either an unknown person, or else Johann George Heidler, or the son of a wealthy Jewish man, Frankenberger for whom she worked. Thus Adolph Hitler, steeped as he was in anti-Semitism, was struck numb by the thought that his grandfather may have been a Jew. But since science had not advanced to the point of establishing paternity, the notion was ignored. Johann George Heidler eventually did marry Marie Ann Schicklegruber, becoming Adolph’s stepfather. Because of this, Hitler did change his name, and the Heidler became Adolph Hitler, a name that would go down in infamy.