>The house in Austria that Adolf Hitler was born in is to be used for human rights training for police officers in the latest twist to a long-running row over what to do with it.
>The government bought the building in Braunau am Inn near the German border under a compulsory purchase order in 2016 after a lengthy dispute.
>The genocidal dictator was born in a rented room on the top floor in 1889.
>Construction work to convert the house is expected to start in the autumn.
And the main instructor will be Irma Von Kinkenrotten.
I’m certain they’ll do something which will show Austria as victims of “Nazis”.
*We had been advocating for human rights from the very beginning, weren’t we?*
Fair enough Human Rights training for police is a fitting use.
A Holocaust Museum would have been a step up though.
Should’ve been razed to the ground a long time ago and a Holocaust memorial raised there.
And now tell them Mozart was German.
Missed the chance to turn it into an art school.
I spent a night in Braunau a few years ago on a road trip with my dad, it was pouring down and we just went for the first hotel. We ended up having a blast in a local bar, my dad even almost got laid lol (luckily he didn’t, would have been a hell of an awkward night since we were sharing a room). A few weeks later in Hungary I was chatting with a group of Germans and mentioned Braunau, they all looked at me funny wondering what was I doing there and they brought up that it’s Hitler’s hometown! Had no idea.
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Should have been a public toilet
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>The house in Austria that Adolf Hitler was born in is to be used for human rights training for police officers in the latest twist to a long-running row over what to do with it.
>The government bought the building in Braunau am Inn near the German border under a compulsory purchase order in 2016 after a lengthy dispute.
>The genocidal dictator was born in a rented room on the top floor in 1889.
>Construction work to convert the house is expected to start in the autumn.
^1 Bethany Bell (24 May 2023), “Adolf Hitler house in Austria to be used for police human rights training”, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65685668
And the main instructor will be Irma Von Kinkenrotten.
I’m certain they’ll do something which will show Austria as victims of “Nazis”.
*We had been advocating for human rights from the very beginning, weren’t we?*
Fair enough Human Rights training for police is a fitting use.
A Holocaust Museum would have been a step up though.
Should’ve been razed to the ground a long time ago and a Holocaust memorial raised there.
And now tell them Mozart was German.
Missed the chance to turn it into an art school.
I spent a night in Braunau a few years ago on a road trip with my dad, it was pouring down and we just went for the first hotel. We ended up having a blast in a local bar, my dad even almost got laid lol (luckily he didn’t, would have been a hell of an awkward night since we were sharing a room). A few weeks later in Hungary I was chatting with a group of Germans and mentioned Braunau, they all looked at me funny wondering what was I doing there and they brought up that it’s Hitler’s hometown! Had no idea.