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Austrian towns seek to erase the memory of links with Hitler

July 8, 2011

It's not clear from the records whether the Austrian town of Braunau, birthplace of Adolf Hitler, actually awarded an honorary citizenship to the notorious Nazi dictator, but officials decided to strike him off anyway.

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