Luxury apartments may be built in the house where Hitler was born.
The structure, located in Braunau, Austria, is not a desirable place for most people to reside.
Sick neo-Nazis even visit the site, paying their respects to the individual accountable for the Second World War and the extermination of six million Jews.
The current owner is looking to sell, and skeptical locals have taken to calling the potential development “Fuhrer Mansions” and “Hitler Towers”.
However, the mayor of the town believes that transforming the building into apartments could assist in rebranding the locality.
Johannes Waidbacher states, “There is no need to establish a Holocaust museum in the house, as some have proposed.
“Braunau is already stigmatized enough, despite Hitler only spending three years of his life here.
“Why should I or anyone else bear the responsibility for him?”
Originally, this nondescript block was a pub known as Gasthof Zum Pommer.
Klara and Alois, Hitler’s parents, rented rooms in this establishment. After the Führer’s birth in 1889, they resided there for three years.
Over time, the building has functioned as a library, a school, a bank, and a resource center for the disabled. Residents find it challenging to decide its future. Student Pruejscy, 31, remarks, “People need to stop acting as if this place is cursed.
“Let’s construct some apartments, rent them out at reasonable prices, and that would be a fitting retaliation against old Hitler.”
Seventy-year-old pensioner Helmut Eichberger adds, “I support the idea of apartments, but only if they are affordable. We bear shame for Hitler’s birthplace.”
Housewife Andrea Angel, 47, believes, “A museum dedicated to the past, highlighting the horrors Hitler caused, is the only meaningful function for this site. It would display, in the very place of his birth, the dreadful actions he later committed.” Meanwhile, Heribert Hillbrand, 65, envisions, “A space where educated discussions can take place about what Hitler signified and his legacy.
“I believe the historical significance of this location prevents it from being transformed into apartments.”
The proposal to convert the site into flats has provoked outrage in Russian politician Frantz Klintsevich of President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia Party. Approximately 27 million individuals from the former Soviet Union lost their lives during the war, more than any other nation.
He has now initiated a $3 million effort to purchase the property. Frantz stated, “I intend to acquire it and demolish it. Obliterate it from existence forever.
“This site is tainted and infamous, the birthplace of the devil himself.
“I am in the process of gathering the funds to buy it, and once I do, I will obliterate it.”
