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
Austria under National Socialism previous two days in his birthtown of Braunau am Inn, made a triumphal entry into Vienna and gave a speech on Heldenplatz in front of tens of thousands of cheering people, in which he boasted of his "greatest accomplishment": ""As leader and chancellor of the German nation and Reich I announce to German history now the entry of my homeland into the German Reich."" Ernst Kaltenbrunner from Upper Austria, sentenced to death in 1946 at the Nuremberg trials, was promoted SS-Brigadeführer and the leader of the SS-upper section Austria. Beginning on March 12 and during the subsequent weeks 72,000 people