The tombstone marking the grave of the parents of Adolf Hitler was removed from an Austrian cemetery this week to deter neo-Nazi commemorations.
The owner of the grave in the town of Leonding, an unidentified woman who is a distant relative of Hitler’s father Alois, asked for the stone to be removed, the town’s mayor Walter Brunner said yesterday.
“The site was not constantly being visited but things happened now and then, the last time late last autumn,” he said, referring to “various actions by diehards”.
A newspaper said someone had at that time decorated the grave site with Nazi symbols. A similar incident occurred in 2009. – (Reuters)