The sale of Adolf Hitler’s family home in the Austrian town of Braunau am Inn has triggered concern that it could become a shrine for Nazi sympathisers.
The unassuming house where Hitler was born in 1889 has been put on the market priced at 2.2m euros (£1.9m; $3.3m). Residents and local politicians fear that the property could fall into the hands of far-right extremists.
Braunau’s mayor Gerhard Skiba wants to prevent that happening, but the council does not have the funds to buy it. The building is currently used by an organisation helping the disabled and has at various times in its history housed a library, bank and technical institute. Some historians have suggested turning the building into a museum.
However Mr Skiba vigorously opposes the idea, saying it would encourage people from all over the world to visit the site. For the time being, the only reminder of the building’s infamous past is a small memorial dedicated to the victims of the Nazis.
It’s been rumored that Dick Cheney has made an offer.
oh come on, mccollugh. dick cheney and hitler in the same sentence? im not a big fan of cheney, but thats a tad bit over the line…..
I could own it for a few million, but sorry, I’m not interested.
Cheney, yes, I can see a definite connection.
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Oh, #1, Cheney, Satan, Mussolini, Hitler,(did I mention Cheney) Julius Caesar, Ted Bundy, (don’t forget Cheney)Stalin, Pol Pot, Jeffery Dalmer, (remember to include Cheney) Alexander Pichushkin, Osama bin Laden, Nidal Malik Hasan, (and Cheney) …
That building should have been destroyed long ago. What are the people of Braunau thinking? Shameful.
#1. So, I take it you like Dick?
A Burger King franchise?
Do you have any evidence to back up your assertion? Care to provide a link to some reputable source? Or are you simply in the business of reporting rumors now?
Take a perfectly interesting Hitler story and twist it into a Republican bashing party; What kind of person would do that?
#6. A guy who doesn’t like Dick?
6. StoopidFlanders…
There is this human concept called irony. It’s a branch of a larger concept called humor. You might want to brush up on that sort of stuff before interacting with humans in the future. It’s just a thought.
In the last of Dvorak’s Tech 5 (11-6), John insinuated a Apple – Hitler connection. quote “They like Hitler over there” for Apple posting the Mein Kampf iPhone app.
The comparison with Cheney is exaggerated.
Hitler is responsible for 60 million deaths.
Cheney is only responsible for 2 million deaths (1.2 million from embargo, 0.8 million from invasion of Irak).
#10. He’s not dead yet……
The politics of Obama and Soros are much closer to Hitler than Cheney. Maybe Soros will acquire it for the Obama family as payoff for being good little puppets.
#11, McCullough,
I apologise. My first reaction was to laugh. Only something so true isn’t funny.
am i the only one getting #5′s joke? =))
Didn’t the Russians cremate his corpse and
flush it down the Moscow sewers because they
feared and burial location would end up being a
shrine to neo-nazi kooks.
But Hitler never shot someone in the face with a shotgun and then had the victim apologize.
10. The straight comparison of those numbers (which questionable at best) is not fair on an even more deeper level. 60M innocents versus 2M scumbags that would happily cut off your head while woshipping a pedophile and chanting to a sky-god? It’s the deficiencies of the liberal brain that allows them to equate these things. It’s probably a result of drug use and not reading the Bible, but in any case, it’s so sad these Cheney detractors cannot see a hero even when we had one in the Whitehouse. Thank you Dick Cheney. Thank you for keeping America safe.
Guess Hitler’s revenge are amphetamines in all its various forms to do harm and evil to people and are of these Cheney jokes and references
Where is Cheney now anyways
#3 Why? Its just a house where a notorious individual once resided. There are lots of houses like that.
The wrong thing to do is draw attention to it. I hope that whoever buys it just leaves it as a residence.
#19, ArianeB, If you didn’t notice before, there is a plaque outside the house. The people of Braunau are using it as a tourist attraction. They are making money off that evil shit.
I agree that the wrong thing is to draw attention to it… so knock it down, and turn it into a parking lot. I’m shocked that your adjective for Hitler is just “notorious”.