Adolf Hitler's house to be torn down

[Imperial Esplanade]

Now I'm a monarchist, and personally dislike much of what Hitler did; but it's not right to tear down history. Sure he was influential at horrific acts; but it's still history.

This. ^^

[Genivaria]

I don't think WW2 is something we're going to forget for at least a good 500 years.

People are all ready starting to forget it to a certain extent and go "whatever" to it. In five hundred years nobody will care all that much.

Caring and remembering are two different things.

[The New Sea Territory]

What a national disgrace to Austria as well as a smack in the face of the National Socialist movement.

Maybe that's the point?

[The East Marches]

People are all ready starting to forget it to a certain extent and go "whatever" to it. In five hundred years nobody will care all that much.

Caring and remembering are two different things.

We should care to not screw up again on such a monumental scale. This is an unwise decision, just as it would be an unwise decision to do it the house of Stalin. If we don't learn from history, if it isn't tangible or we attempt to memoryhole it, we will pay for it in the future.

[Drayxaso]

Your frankly deeply disturbing near-religious reverence for an insane genocidal dictator makes the idea of bulldozing a historical "artifact" far less unpleasant, for some reason.

This about sums it up for me.

[New Werpland]

What happened to "those who forget history are doomed to repeat it"?

Well it never happened in Austria. They've always been good at forgetting this part of their history.

[Napkiraly]

People are all ready starting to forget it to a certain extent and go "whatever" to it. In five hundred years nobody will care all that much.

Caring and remembering are two different things.

I'd say to properly remember something you have to care about it to a certain extent. Most people do not care about the Napoleonic Wars or WWI or the Taiping Rebellion and thus their legacies are diluted among the masses. WWII will suffer the same fate wherein most people basically go "Oh yeah that thing that happened a long time ago, right? Yeah sorry, I don't know much about it. We learned it in high school and I forgot pretty much everything afterwards. Wanna see my new flying robopig?!"

[Dushan]

Turn it into a Museum, completly with originally restored rooms, Gift, Beverage and Souvenir Shop alike.

And use the revenues for some educative and charity work. ;^)

[New Werpland]

What a national disgrace to Austria as well as a smack in the face of the National Socialist movement.

Maybe that's the point?

More likely it's Austria trying to prove yet again that they had nothing to do with the Nazis and were in fact the first victim of Nazi aggression.

[Democratic East-Asia]

Turn it into a Meseum, completly with originally restored rooms, Gift, Beverage and Souvenir Shop alike.

And use the revenues for some educative and charity work. ;^)

Actually, that sounds nice.

[Valcouria]

And yet imagine the furor if it were MLK jr's house, or Stalin's house, or Mandela's house. Got to love the hypocrisy of those here that are saying 'good riddance' to a piece of history, however odious it may seem to a fair number of people.

Good or bad, history shouldn't be destroyed like this. Period.

[Genivaria]

Caring and remembering are two different things.

I'd say to properly remember something you have to care about it to a certain extent. Most people do not care about the Napoleonic Wars or WWI or the Taiping Rebellion and thus their legacies are diluted among the masses. WWII will suffer the same fate wherein most people basically go "Oh yeah that thing that happened a long time ago, right? Yeah sorry, I don't know much about it. We learned it in high school and I forgot pretty much everything afterwards. Wanna see my new flying robopig?!"

I'm not saying you're wrong, and I think it's worth pointing out that people are already winding down from 9/11 more every year.

[Lancaster of Wessex]

As some other poster already pointed out, it's not going to be torn down.

I agree it should be re-purposed though in a suitable way that would have meaning behind it, preferably to honour victims of Nazism or the like.

Even if they did tear it down, the land itself wouldn't go away nor what it's associated with. That spot is forever marred.

[The New Sea Territory]

And yet imagine the furor if it were MLK jr's house, or Stalin's house, or Mandela's house. Got to love the hypocrisy of those here that are saying 'good riddance' to a piece of history, however odious it may seem to a fair number of people.

Good or bad, history shouldn't be destroyed like this. Period.

I don't have much of an issue with destroying a potential Nazi Mecca.

The gas station Mussolini was hung from, IIRC, was torn down for this same reason.

[Republic Of Varra]

And yet imagine the furor if it were MLK jr's house, or Stalin's house, or Mandela's house. Got to love the hypocrisy of those here that are saying 'good riddance' to a piece of history, however odious it may seem to a fair number of people.

Good or bad, history shouldn't be destroyed like this. Period.

Agreed.

[Drayxaso]

Turn it into a Meseum, completly with originally restored rooms, Gift, Beverage and Souvenir Shop alike.

And use the revenues for some educative and charity work. ;^)

Correction: Educative and chairty work towards Jews, LQBTQ+ people, Roma, and the disabled. Then, we get a laugh and we make it clear that we don't support what Hitler has done.

[Ogrien]

I personally don't think that the fact that Hitler was born there makes it a historically significant enough site to warrent preservation, and love Neo-Nazi tears, so I'm pretty fine with it

[-Fahrong-]

Destroying history is never a good thing, nor do I think the de facto destruction by conversion to the point of unrecognizability.

[Western Vale Confederacy]

...Just convert it into a Holocaust museum or something along those lines.

Turn it into an ironic thing, but don't demolish it.

[Grand Britannia]

...Just convert it into a Holocaust museum or something along those lines.

Turn it into an ironic thing, but don't demolish it.

It should be turned into a WW2 museum, yes.

[Yumyumsuppertime]

And yet imagine the furor if it were MLK jr's house, or Stalin's house, or Mandela's house. Got to love the hypocrisy of those here that are saying 'good riddance' to a piece of history, however odious it may seem to a fair number of people.

Good or bad, history shouldn't be destroyed like this. Period.

Leaving Stalin aside, did you just compare MLK Jr. and Mandela to Adolf Hitler?

[The Grand American League]

Could have been transformed into a museum that would lure in tourists?

[Jochizyd Republic]

Still an important part of history so...no. this was not a very good move.

And I daresay most fascists don't revere Hitler or Nazi dogma like you do. Many aren't fans of Race Supremacism in general. No irrelevant number of them.

[Salus Maior]

Should've been turned into a museum dedicated to Nazi war crimes and the Holocaust.

[Minzerland II]

No thanks, historical importance.

Good riddance.

No, not really.