About one hundred km northwest of Vienna, in northern Austria, lies a small village called Döllersheim. Eighty years ago, this tiny Austrian village was wiped off the map by a certain German dictator with a comically short moustache in an attempt to erase the disreputable origins of his family.
It was here, in Döllersheim, in the year 1837, that a woman named Maria Schicklgruber gave birth to an illegitimate child. That child was Alois Schicklgruber, the father of Adolf Hitler. The identity of the man who impregnated the forty-two-year-old unmarried serving woman was not disclosed on the baby's baptismal certificate filed in her parish church. Later, when Alois was five, his mother married Johann Georg Hiedler and Alois took the name Hitler, after Hiedler.
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