Hitler birthplace memorial stone

Hitler birthplace memorial stone

The Hitler birthplace memorial stone is a memorial to victims of the Nazis placed in front of Salzburger Vorstadt 15, Braunau am Inn, Upper Austria, the building where Adolf Hitler was born in 1889.

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Birth house of Hitler

At the time of Hitler's birth, the building was a modest lodging / guest house / inn, where Hitler's parents rented rooms in connection with his father's job as a minor customs official at the nearby Austrian / German border. The Hitlers only lived in the building until Adolf was three years old, when his father was transferred to Passau. After World War II, the building[1] was rented by the Austrian Republic in 1952. Until 1965 it was the home of the public library and later a bank. From 1970 to 1976 several classes from the technical high school were held in the house, until the school was rebuilt. The house then for many years accommodated a branch of the charity Lebenshilfe, and operated as a day centre and workshops for people with learning difficulties. As Lebenshilfe are currently (2010) in the process of relocating to new premises, this has again re-awakened debate about the future use of the building. Some advocate the setting-up of an historical learning and memorial resource, but on the other hand many citizens of Braunau (tiring of the town's unwelcome 'Hitler link') would prefer that the building be used for normal purposes, as its notoriety passes out of living memory.

Suggestions regarding making Hitler's birthplace a place of remembrance for the victims of Nazism had already been made in the early years after the war. For a long time, the council discussed putting up a memorial tablet on the house, and in 1983 the decision was made by the then mayor Hermann Fuchs, with intervention from Culture Advisor Wolfgang Simböck. However, the memorial tablet was not attached, because the owner (who had no connection to Hitler) felt that this was an intrusion into her rights of ownership. She successfully fought against it in court because of her fear of unwelcome attention or attacks from anti- or Neonazis.

Installation of the stone

Close-up view of the stone

In 1989 the new mayor Gerhard Skiba, took the initiative. In April, 1989 (two weeks before the centenary of Hitler's birth) a memorial was placed directly in front of the house on public ground.[2] The stone for the memorial came from a quarry on the grounds of the former Mauthausen Concentration Camp, near Linz, Austria. The inscription on the memorial reads:

FÜR FRIEDEN, FREIHEIT
UND DEMOKRATIE
NIE WIEDER FASCHISMUS
MILLIONEN TOTE MAHNEN

"For Peace, Freedom and Democracy. Never Again Fascism. Millions of Dead Remind (us)".

The official name of the memorial is the "Memorial Stone Against War and Fascism". It appears as the "Mahnstein" ("Remembrance Stone") on street maps of Braunau.

References

  1. ^ History as responsibility - House of Responsibility
  2. ^ Impossible to Deny (Frankfurter Rundschau Online, February 10 2001)

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Coordinates: 48°15′23″N 13°02′10″E / 48.25639°N 13.03611°E / 48.25639; 13.03611


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