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Hitler's birthplace
But the local authority in Braunau-am-Inn, Austria, has vowed to try to find a way of blocking any sale because it fears it could land up in the hands of extreme right-wingers who would turn it into a grotesque shrine to his memory.
The mayor of Braunau, Gerhard Skiba, said ideally the town council would like to purchase it and so control its future fate.
But there is not enough money in the town coffers to buy the property, Salzburger Vorstadt 15.
He says he will appeal to the government in Vienna to help the town purchase the property if the owner goes ahead with the sale.
She and her husband Alois, a stern local customs official, rented a suite of rooms above the pub and continued to live in it until 1892 when they moved to Linz.
Alois, a drunkard, often availed himself of the beer on sale in the saloon downstairs before returning to the family home to abuse his timid wife 24 years his junior.
The house is still owned by the family after which the pub took its name. Owner Gelinde Pommer says she wants to sell because the tenants for the past two decades, handicapped people who worked and lived there under the care of a disabled organization, are moving to more modern premises in January, and she no longer wants to have the responsibility for it.
She has not yet advertised it, but estate agents have suggested it will have an asking price of about £2million. She was not available to comment.
Nothing remains inside the building to indicate its link with Hitler, not even the bedroom where he was born.
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Nov 04, 2009 at 05:03 PM Anonymous Says:
It should be knocked down and a Yeshiva built there.
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Nov 04, 2009 at 06:37 PM formally Says:
“ It should be knocked down and a Yeshiva built there. ”
take up a collection
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Nov 04, 2009 at 05:40 PM no name Says:
burn it to the ground and don't build a yshiva and build a holocuast museam
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Nov 04, 2009 at 08:30 PM Asher Buchwalter Says:
“ burn it to the ground and don't build a yshiva and build a holocuast museam ”
Braunau am Inn where he was born is near Mauthausen the only concentration outside of Poland which had a gas chamber. No normal person would want to build Yeshiva in that blood drenched soil and no Jew should put his foot on the ground there. Don Abravanel issued a cheirim on Spain and unfortunately there is no godol today which has the same koach. Austria[my birth place] is a cursed country regarding the harm it did to Yidden.
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Nov 05, 2009 at 02:25 AM Anonymous Says:
“ It should be knocked down and a Yeshiva built there. ”
It could be a very good place to be a base to public WC .
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Nov 05, 2009 at 08:37 AM anonymous Says:
“ It could be a very good place to be a base to public WC . ”
You are right regarding the WC but not a Yeshiva
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Nov 05, 2009 at 11:54 AM Everybody has an opinion Says:
“ It should be knocked down and a Yeshiva built there. ”
So go ahead: pay for it, knock it down, and build a yeshiva there. Can you afford to do that?
Or are you just like the rest of the frum community, shooting off your mouth and leaving it for someone else to do the heavy lifting?
So start collecting door-to-door. Find a yeshiva willing to learn in such a disgusting place. Find rich donors for your great idea. Build a cemetery there, a much better idea.
Or sit home, talk, talk, talk, and do nothing, feeling pleased with yourself.
Except, of course, sharing your smart ideas with VIN readers who are just dying to hear your opinion about anything.
What prompted you to write this? Was it in your mind a great idea the world was waiting to hear?
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Nov 05, 2009 at 11:29 AM Docent Says:
It could be a good place for a Holocaust museum, so that the Austrians and the world doesn't forget what horror came out of this place.
And the WC could be conveniently located in the same room on the first floor of the house where he was born...
Is there anyone who knows of a donor who could help to start this project? A little bit of money, and then I'm sure that the town and the government in Vienna could be pressured to make the rest happen.
If you're interested, or know someone who could be, post here.
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Nov 05, 2009 at 10:50 AM Anonymous Says:
Do you think if this had been the birth place of a monster that had killed the same number of Irish, Italians, Blacks, etc... that it would have been allowed to stand in perfect condition all these many years?
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Nov 05, 2009 at 01:32 PM Anonymous Says:
“ So go ahead: pay for it, knock it down, and build a yeshiva there. Can you afford to do that?
Or are you just like the rest of the frum community, shooting off your mouth and leaving it for someone else to do the heavy lifting?
So start collecting door-to-door. Find a yeshiva willing to learn in such a disgusting place. Find rich donors for your great idea. Build a cemetery there, a much better idea.
Or sit home, talk, talk, talk, and do nothing, feeling pleased with yourself.
Except, of course, sharing your smart ideas with VIN readers who are just dying to hear your opinion about anything.
What prompted you to write this? Was it in your mind a great idea the world was waiting to hear? ”
I am glad you are not MY Shver or Shviger. In fact I am glad I don't have anything to do with a person filled with such rage like you.
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Nov 05, 2009 at 02:13 PM Morally correct Says:
What should be done is that the house should be burned down, and the wreckage should be left to stay there...or better yet, make it a communal garbage deposit
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Nov 05, 2009 at 02:54 PM Anonymous Says:
“ What should be done is that the house should be burned down, and the wreckage should be left to stay there...or better yet, make it a communal garbage deposit ”
The Austrians would never do that. Don't you see how well maintained that building and the adjoining ones are?
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Nov 05, 2009 at 03:39 PM anonymous Says:
“ The Austrians would never do that. Don't you see how well maintained that building and the adjoining ones are? ”
You are very observant and astute. The area of Braunau and Linz still is nostalgic for the Fuehrer
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Nov 05, 2009 at 05:56 PM formelly Says:
“ Do you think if this had been the birth place of a monster that had killed the same number of Irish, Italians, Blacks, etc... that it would have been allowed to stand in perfect condition all these many years? ”
yep his name is hitler he did kill another 6 million people
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Nov 09, 2009 at 07:58 PM Anonymous Says:
I predict that Jewish (frum!) tour groups will be outdoing each other to add it to their 'Tour Austria' itineraries .