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From the BBC.
The Austrian government says it plans to seize the house where Adolf Hitler was born to stop it being a focal point for Nazi sympathisers.
Officials say the decision was taken after several years of discussion about how to prevent neo-Nazi interest.
Hitler was born in the house in the town of Braunau am Inn in April, 1889.
The property has been leased from its owner by the government since 1972, and it was used for many years as a centre for people with disabilities.
But it fell empty in 2011 following a dispute between the government and the owner, Gerlinde Pommer, who refused to grant permission for renovation.
The new plan would include an offer of compensation from the state to her, interior ministry spokesman Karl-Heinz Grundboeck told AFP news agency.
"We are currently examining the creation of a law, which would force a change of ownership and pass the property to the Republic of Austria.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36005160
Something needs to be done with it, either knock it down or use it for something Hitler would have hated.
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Bad Dog
(2,025 posts)Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)Sewage treatment facility.
tanyev
(42,553 posts)marble falls
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cwydro
(51,308 posts)No one wants a crumbling shell next door.
marble falls
(57,081 posts)It could be "curated" for a certain amount of time, to keep it unmaintained, but neat. Then it'd hauled away and an immigrant center named in Elie Wiesel's honor would bring it all into the light.
Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)a centre for people with disabilities was appropriately symbolic and a nice FU to Hitler and all present and future would-be "strongmen" types.
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dembotoz
(16,802 posts)lord know you can build a museum in this county if you can verify that george washington farted there.
hitler was vile yes yes yes but he was important in history
Bad Dog
(2,025 posts)Regardless of what they do to his home. Anything that could be treated as a memorial should be resisted. That's why Himmler was buried in an unmarked grave in the woods by British soldiers in 1945.
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(2,025 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)just like he did with the land around the wolf's lair in Bavaria, Sudetenland, and the rest of Europe.
They should make it a horror museum