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German WWII-Era Real-Photo Postcard, ”Des Fuehrers Geburtshaus in Braunau a. Inn” - A real-photo postcard depicting a multi-story building with an arched ground-floor arcade, decorated with large banners bearing swastika emblems hung from upper-story windows. The lower edge carries a handwritten caption reading ”Des Fuehrers Geburtshaus in Braunau a. Inn” (”The Fuehrer's birth house in Braunau am Inn”). The reverse bears a printed stamp reading ”Echte Photographie” (”genuine photograph”) along with a pencilled date of 1938 and a price notation. The building depicted is the house in Braunau am Inn, Austria, associated with Adolf Hitler's birth, which became a site of commemorative photography and postcard production following the 1938 annexation of Austria into Germany. This postcard dates from 1938, the year of the Anschluss, when Austria was incorporated into the German Reich and Braunau am Inn briefly became a focus of Nazi propaganda as Hitler's purported birthplace. Such buildings were widely photographed and reproduced as commemorative postcards to mark the annexation and to cultivate a cult of personality around Hitler, often decorated with swastika banners for public events and visits. The house itself later became a point of postwar controversy for Austrian authorities over how to manage a site tied to Hitler's biography.