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26 April 20 On his birthday they would bring flowers to his grave, if he had a grave. Instead they have to make do with that of his parents in Leonding at St. Michael’s under a large fir tree. Alois and Klara, who were not monsters, every year get flowers intended for Adolf. The house where he was born in Braunau is marked with a stone bearing the words Peace, Freedom, Democracy . . . Government nonsense, so true believers, some from the old days, and some younger, sorry they missed the war, go instead to St. Michael’s to leave him his flowers, which also are inadequate substitutions for the bouquets of Jewish bones he would prefer. ...

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