By November of this year, the house in the Austrian city of Braunau-am-Inn, birthplace of Adolf Hitler will be, in the words of the authorities, “neutralized” after reconstruction it will house a police station. Thus the government hoped to ward off from him the neo-Nazis.
“the birthplace of the dictator and mass murderer starts a new life,” — said Tuesday the Minister of internal Affairs of Austria Karl Nehammer, presenting the new design of the building.
In February 2017, the authorities have prosecuted for the glorification of neo-Nazism 25-year-old DoppelgangeR, the Nazi ruler, who called himself on the Internet by Harald Hitler. Releasing tendrils “a La Fuhrer”, he was photographed in front of the house in Braunau and posted pictures on the Network.
Discussion of what to do with the house to exclude the pilgrimage of neo-Nazis there, lasted four years.
competition for the renovation, which was attended by 12 construction contractors, was won by Marte.Marte. The plan calls for changing the appearance of the facade and construction of a new roof. The work will be completed in 2023 and will cost the government 5 million euros.
“the Main idea is to neutralise the whole object”, — told reporters the representative of the Austrian Ministry of the interior Herman finer.
it is unknown what will happen to the previously installed near the house a stone slab, on which is written: “For peace, freedom and democracy. No to fascism. Millions dead remind us about it.”
Some believe that this place in General, nothing should remind you about Hitler, and the stone should be sent to a Museum in Vienna. But local historian said Bi-bi-si, what would you like to leave a monument in Braunau.
the Future Fuhrer was born in one of the apartments of the three-storey building built in the XVIII century on the street the-Vorstadt in 1889, but almost didn’t live: a few weeks later his family moved to another house, and three years later — all out of town.
in Fact, he was born in the village Ranshofen, but later it became part of Braunau.
the sound house since 1952 belonged to the same family that leased it out as a library, school and club workshop for people with disabilities. Since 2011, the building was empty.
In 2016, the government decided to nationalize the house “to avoid any possibility of its use for propaganda of ideas of national socialism.”
Since the last landlady refused to sell the building, the government released the order of the compulsory redemption. The legality of the decision was confirmed by the constitutional court of Austria. The owner paid 812 thousand Euro in the same amount estimated house real estate experts.
Austria was annexed by Germany in March 1938 and regained independentthe cost in 1945.
the Vast majority of its inhabitants today are United in the assessment of Nazism. His glorification and Holocaust denial are in Austria a criminal offense.
However, the debate is about whether Austria suffered from Hitler as the rest of the occupied state of Europe bears a share historical guilt for the crimes of the regime.
the Moscow conference of foreign Ministers of the allied powers in October 1943 formally adopted the provision: “Austria — first victim of Nazism”.
on the other hand, many Austrians at the time welcomed the Anschluss. The Austrians Kaltenbrunner and Seyss-Inquart occupied the highest positions in the SS and was executed by verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal.
