House Hitler was born in will become a police station, Austria says

 

VIENNA (Reuters) - The house where Adolf Hitler was born will be turned into a police station, Austria's interior minister said on Tuesday, after years of debate over how best to prevent it becoming a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis.

 

Having recently carried out a compulsory purchase of the house in Braunau am Inn, a town on the border with Germany, Austria will invite architects to submit plans for a redesign of the building. It will house the local police force's offices, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

 

"The house's future use by the police should send an unmistakable signal that this building will never again evoke the memory of National Socialism," Interior Minister Wolfgang Peschorn, who serves in a provisional government of civil servants, said in the statement.

 

Architects from across the European Union will be invited to submit plans for the building's redesign this month and a jury of experts and public officials will pick the winning design in the first half of next year, the Interior Ministry said.

 

Although Hitler was born in Braunau in 1889, Austria argued for decades that it was the first victim of National Socialism, having been annexed by Hitler's Germany in 1938.

 

Recent governments have, however, recognised that Austrians were also perpetrators of Nazi crimes and that there was little resistance to Hitler's rule.

 

(Reporting by Francois Murphy; Editing by Dan Grebler)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-11-20

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Why not tear it down, instead?

11 minutes ago, Somtamnication said:

Why not tear it down, instead?

 

That was exactly my thought.

11 minutes ago, Somtamnication said:

Why not tear it down, instead?

Yep, I was just going to post that it should be raised to the ground.

 

They did the same with a house in the UK where child killer Fred West buried most of his victims (including one of my friends sisters in Gloucester

 

There should be nothing left of the most evil man in the world's memory

here's my design, where can I submit it?

 

1 hour ago, webfact said:

The house's future use by the police should send an unmistakable signal that this building will never again evoke the memory of National Socialism," Interior Minister Wolfgang Peschorn, who serves in a provisional government of civil servants, said in the statement.

What a daft idea...The best signal would be to blow the damn thing to smithereens using 1 ton of Semtec collect all the rubble and dump it in the ocean and not turn it into a police station...

Destroy it and build a sewage treatment facility 

2 hours ago, BritManToo said:

here's my design, where can I submit it?

 

It needs to go through these chaps too, then it would be acceptable.

 

 

 

It should be a museum.

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Although Hitler was born in Braunau in 1889, Austria argued for decades that it was the first victim of National Socialism, having been annexed by Hitler's Germany in 1938.

No No !

 

Now there is "next stage wisdom"
Germany was the first victim of National Socialism and Hitler 555

 

The world has become completely stupid !

I think their decision was OK. If Nazis show up to worship the place, give them a ticket.

... anyhows, one can expect very slow service after approaching the Counter...

 

 - their response to you "half a Mo' "

2 hours ago, Nyezhov said:

I must say that the obsession with controlling Nazi speech or symbols like this building demonstrate that European governments fear that their peoples, given a chance, will rise and go chase some Jews again.

I think that Hitler incited hatred against Jews wasn't and isn't the main concern of European leaders, past and present - they simply don't want their countries to be invaded and looted (and consequently lose their jobs).

2 hours ago, Nyezhov said:

The Germanic mind doesnt like waste. Why tear down a perfectly good building?

If you rebuild it, they will come!

this is the house which will become a police station:-

 

7 hours ago, ThaiPauly said:

Yep, I was just going to post that it should be raised to the ground.

 

They did the same with a house in the UK where child killer Fred West buried most of his victims (including one of my friends sisters in Gloucester

 

There should be nothing left of the most evil man in the world's memory

 

So long as the same is done to any memorials to Stalin, Lenin, Mao, the Kims who have all butchered millions too.

 They have no notion of symbolism, anything... but not a police building ????

but then it is a more practical scenario, than trying to put Police down some old musky Bunker...

They should make it into an orphanage for Jewish kids. That would make him turn over in his grave!

9 hours ago, ezzra said:

What a daft idea...The best signal would be to blow the damn thing to smithereens using 1 ton of Semtec collect all the rubble and dump it in the ocean and not turn it into a police station...

1 ton will take the whole street down, maybe a good idea but knocking it down would not stop it being a shrine for nutters. Build a synagogue and that will keep them away. 

Turning it into a synagogue would be nice

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