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Friday, October 19, 2012

What to Do With the House Where Hitler Was Born?

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception



Now, what’s a town to do when its most famous former resident is the world’s most infamous mass murderer?

That's the dilemma at the moment for Braunau am Inn, the Austrian home-town of Adolf Hitler. It's been a center for disabled people, but now it stands empty.

Kerry Skyring reports on what to do with the house where Hitler was brought into the world.
Listen here: http://soundcloud.com/deutsche-welle-in-english/what-to-do-with-the-house

Since it is located in a prime area near the town square, some say  it should be turned into apartments. Others think only neo-Nazis would want to move in to those apartments. Perhaps a Holocaust Memorial? The current owner is against that idea.

What should the town do with a building so closely tied to Hitler?

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