Austria 'plans to seize' house where Hitler born

[Bad Dog]

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.

[Bad Dog]

2. That's the sort of thing I had in mind.

[Fritz Walter]

4. Your idea is better than mine

Sewage treatment facility.

[tanyev]

7. Or they could build a museum next door and then annex the house to become part of the museum.

[marble falls]

3. Why not buy it, close it and let it fall backinto the earth on its own, a useless shell.

[cwydro]

10. I assume it's in a neighborhood.

No one wants a crumbling shell next door.

[marble falls]

12. It would be public art. It would be a contemplation on how hate unmaintained fades away...

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]

6. I think using it as

a centre for people with disabilities was appropriately symbolic and a nice FU to Hitler and all present and future would-be "strongmen" types.

[dembotoz]

11. alternate use of museum would be ok with me...it IS of historic importance

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]

14. He'll still remain an important historical figure.

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.

[Bad Dog]

16. Exactly!

[Ichingcarpenter]

13. That's what Hitler would have done ...seize it

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