 Walter Nowotny was born in <unk> , a small town in Lower Austria . His father , Rudolf Nowotny , was a railway official ; his two brothers , Rudolf and Hubert , became officers in the Wehrmacht . Hubert Nowotny was killed in action in the Battle of Stalingrad . From 1925 to 1935 , his family lived in Schwarzenau until his father was relocated to <unk> , north of Vienna . Walter attended the primary school ( Volksschule ) in Schwarzenau before graduating to the <unk> in <unk> an der <unk> . During these years , he also sang in the Cistercian convent choir in the Zwettl Abbey . 
