Caption:
Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler. Alois Hitler (1837-1903), an Austrian customs officer, married Klara Pölzl in 1885. Their first three children died in infancy before the fourth, Adolf, was born on 20 April 1889. A print from Wie die Oftmark ihre Befreiung erlebte (The Way towards the Liberation), Berlin, 1940.