Austrians to Demolish House Where Hitler Born

[$tevie]

The house where Adolf Hitler was born will be torn down and replaced with a new building that has no association with the Nazi dictator, Austria's government announced Monday, as it moved to eliminate the property's significance for neo-Nazis as a place of pilgrimage.

The plan still has to be formalized in legislation and voted on in Parliament. But the Interior Ministry said demolition was recommended by a government-appointed commission.

http://www.usnews.com/news/world/article...demolished

[max]

Is the Klaus Barbie house still up?...

Nikolaus "Klaus" Barbie was born on 25 October 1913 in Godesberg, later renamed Bad Godesberg,

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/02/magazi...wanted=all

[mrbigstuff]

That's an epic story. Thanks.

[vision63]

A hundred years from now, nobody will know that this happened. You never know what the political climate will be. Tearing down the house where his His Evil was born eliminates evidence.

[SteveG]

We're faced with the same questions about the old Trump birthplace in Jamaica Estates
here in Queens

[$tevie]

vision63 wrote:
A hundred years from now, nobody will know that this happened. You never know what the political climate will be. Tearing down the house where his His Evil was born eliminates evidence.

It's become a mecca for neo-Nazis. I can't blame them for wanting to eliminate that nonsense.

[vision63]

$tevie wrote:
[quote=vision63]
A hundred years from now, nobody will know that this happened. You never know what the political climate will be. Tearing down the house where his His Evil was born eliminates evidence.

It's become a mecca for neo-Nazis. I can't blame them for wanting to eliminate that nonsense.
In that case the should place it near the edge of a cliff. "Hey, y'all should check out the back!"

[RgrF]

vision63 wrote:
A hundred years from now, nobody will know that this happened. You never know what the political climate will be. Tearing down the house where his His Evil was born eliminates evidence.

This is really the truth.

Ask any kid of high school age about what the Holocaust was about, they'll look at you like "Is this a trick question?"

[DeusxMac]

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