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Weitra is a small town in the district of Gmünd in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.
Main square
Townscape, view from the castle
Weitra Castle
Town hall
Alois Hitler
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Alois Hitler was an Austrian civil servant in the customs service and the father of Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany.
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…Hiedler (1830−1906), a local peasant woman, and by her maternal grandfather Johann Nepomuk Hiedler (1807−1888) a distant cousin of her later husband Alois Hitler from nearby Strones, Döllersheim. Alois Hitler also lived in Spital between 1847-1850, raised by Johann Nepomuk Hiedler after his mother's death as a…
Hitler in 1901
Home of Johann Nepomuk Hiedler
Alois Hitler regularly wore his uniform even after retiring, and insisted on being addressed as Herr Oberoffizial Hitler, c. 1897–1899.
Gasthaus Wiesinger in February 2009