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Despina Stratigakos

FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2013 file photo Adolf Hitler, leader of the National Socialists, emerges from the party's Munich headquarters. Historical documents show Adolf Hitler enjoyed special treatment, including plentiful supplies of beer, during his time in Landsberg prison. (AP Photo/file) (AP)

Hitler at home: How the Nazi PR machine remade the Führer’s domestic image and duped the world

Despina Stratigakos
FILE - This Sept. 27, 2012 file picture shows an exterior view of Adolf Hitler's birth house , front, in Braunau am Inn, Austria. Austria’s Interior Ministry says the government has drawn up a draft law that would dispossess the owner of the house where Adolf Hitler was born. Tuesday’s July 12, 2016 move follows steadfast refusal by house owner Gerlinde Pommer to sell the empty building in the town of Braunau am Inn on the German border. The government has sought ownership so it can take measures to lessen its attraction as a shrine for the Nazi dictator’s admirers. (AP Photo / Kerstin Joensson,file) (AP)

Could razing Adolf Hitler’s first home in Austria backfire? Possibly, and here’s why

Despina Stratigakos