What Should Austria Do With Hitler's Vacant Birth House?
The owner of Hitler’s birth home, a drab-yellow abode in Braunau am Inn, Austria, does not want to sell the place to the Austrian government; she hasn’t for years. So, in order to prevent the building from falling into the wrong hands (read: neo-Nazis), they’ve been paying rent on the space to a local woman named, Gerlinde Pommer, to the tune of over $5,500 a month. Austrian taxpayers have footed this bill since 1972, as Pommer has refused to sell the building in which baby Adolf lived with his family in 1889.
In 2014, the space was slated to become a museum to “memorializ[e] the crimes and victims of the German dictator,” reported Haaretz. Over the years the space has served as as a library, bank, school, pub, and has housed workshops for disabled people. But it’s been empty since 2011.
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