# Who maintains the grave of Hitler's parents?

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**Created:** [June 11, 2011, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-maintains-the-grave-of-hitlers-parents/585131 "2011-06-11T18:07:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-maintains-the-grave-of-hitlers-parents/585131/21 "2011-12-21T22:23:57Z")

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> [@saudade2100](#):
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> Here is the grave of Hitler’s mother Klara, and stepfather Alois.  
> [Alois Hitler Sr. (1837-1903) - Find a Grave Memorial](http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11646)
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> Look how well-tended it is. Some say it is very secretly tended by Nazi sympathizers.
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> [http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/124209.html](http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/124209.html)  
> [http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Seventy+Years+Later%3A+the+Second+World+War+destroyed+Adolf+Hitler+and](http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Seventy+Years+Later%3A+the+Second+World+War+destroyed+Adolf+Hitler+and)…-a0238166493
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> I have no doubt, Nazi sympathizers exist in Europe, to this day.
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> But point of fact. Who is maintaining the gravesite of Alois and Klara Hitler in such good shape? I find it hard to believe people can secretly maintain a gravesite as notorious as this, never identified, for decades.
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> Is it really outside Nazi sympathizers, or is it simply the local authorities doing the same for all the graves in that cemetery?
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> For example, here are wider pictures of the church graveyard.  
> [Panoramio is no longer available](http://www.panoramio.com/photo/31386877)  
> [http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Leonding/LeondingPhotos/GraveSideView.jpg](http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Leonding/LeondingPhotos/GraveSideView.jpg)  
> It looks like all the graves are well maintained.
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> The well-tended grave has been used as an example of persistent Naziism in Europe. Though I don’t doubt that Nazis and other explicitly racist far-right parties exist in Europe, I’m not sure if this can be used as an example. It may be no more an example of Naziism in Europe than a well-maintained Confederate cemetery is an example of resurgent interest in American chattel slavery.

People do visit the grave, it is something of a tourist attraction, not as much these days, but of course the local catholic group keep most of the graves clean and tidy.

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