The fate of Hitler’s birthplace


(Top) A plaque inscribed with the name of a victim of the Nazi regime set in stone in Braunau am Inn. — ©2023 The New York Times Company

THE Austrian town of Braunau Am Inn, sitting just at the border with Germany, has a 15th-century church tower, cobblestone streets and cluttered rows of charming, colourful houses, some in green, pink and blue.

It also has a fraught historical burden. On the upper floors of the house at Salzburger Vorstadt 15 on April 20, 1889, Adolf Hitler was born.

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