Braunau am Inn Alois Hitler, his third wife Klara, their son Adolf, and his elder half siblings Alois Jr. and Angela. In April 1934, the Passau ' published a commemorative article, marking the room where Hitler was born. In April 1938, Braunau renamed ', and its town plaza "", but the building itself remained a , with a sign advertising beer on tap. After Hitler's personal secretary Martin Bormann purchased the house where Hitler was born for the Nazi Party, it became a cult centre containing an art gallery and a public library. Occupied by US troops at the end of World War
Berndorf, Lower Austria not even spared the forces of nature. The floods in 1939 and 1944 were the most destructive floods in the history of the Triesting river. When the war had ended, the metal company was confiscated by the Soviet Army and incorporated into the USIA. In 1957, it was given back to the State of Austria and merged with the "Vereinigte Aluminiumwerke Ranshofen (VAW)". Because of financial problems of the socialised industries in the 1980s, the Berndorf consortium was spun off and passed into private hands. The annual theatre festival takes place in the municipal theatre of Berndorf every summer. Berndorf,