1889 April 20

Adolfus Hitler (Adolf Hitler) is born at Braunau am Inn, Austria. According to his birth certificate, he was born at six o'clock in the evening and baptized two days later by Father Ignaz Probst at the local Catholic church. Hitler's father, Alois, was a 51-year-old Austrian customs official of questionable birth. His mother, Klara, was his father's niece and former servant. Married in 1885, their first three children, two boys and a girl, all died before Adolf was born. Klara was twenty-three years younger than Alois, who had been married twice before and had two children from a previous union. (Payne)

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