Adolfus (Adolf) Hitler was born on the evening of 20 April 1889, in the Gasthof zum Pommer, in the small town of Braunnau on the River Inn which forms the frontier between Austria and Bavaria. Adolf was the third child of his father, Alois Hitler’s third marriage. His other siblings, Gustav, Ida, both died during infancy; his younger brother, Edward, died at age six. His only younger sister, Paula, born in 1896, lived to grow up. His half-brother Alois, and half-sister Angela (only one of his relations whom maintained a friendship) were from the second marriage of his father. Alois wanted the best for his son so when he retired in 1895 at the age of fifty-eight, he used his pension to give Adolf a chance at a good education. He spent five
