converting hitler’s birthplace to a police station?
something something some of those who work forces are the same who burn crosses
More like the cops made their pilgrimage site their base.
De-Nazification is such a fucking lie.
The surviving leadership of the Nazi Party was grafted directly onto NATO and to the extended network of fascist US/UK business interests that continued to dominate the West at the end of the war.
Hitler took the idea of manifest destiny from the Americans murdering the native population (great job Pete protecting their medals cause that’s all you have on your fucking calendar today), used it on Europe, then we Paperclipped their nerds to build better rockets…it’s been racist and fascist in the air for a long time now but it most certainly was not just ze Germans
Pretty much all of American history taught in schools is either a lie or heavily edited
No. You didn’t invent everything, America.
interesting, in the US neo-nazis going to police stations is just called commuting
Yeah please don’t believe the Austrian police are magically free of neo-nazis…
I thought it was called going to work
In the US commuting is what we call the daily travel to/from work.
Woosh
That’s what he means
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should have sold it to a jewish group to build a synagogue.
That would have inspired hate crimes.
There weren’t many Jewish people there after the war. And there was a lot of ambivalence about their fate immediately after the war, with a focus on rebuilding. And a concern that a genocide against them could happen again if they returned.
I mean, it was housing disabled people before. That’s just as good
Wow, someone just earned the title of the world’s most brutal art critic.
Yes and no. Living in a care hone with Nazis showing up at your door can’t be all that relaxing. As long as they pay to relocate that, it’s a better idea IMO.
The fuck? I would have bulldozed it a long time ago and built a waste processing plant.
It was being used as a care home.
Waste processing plants and police stations yield the same respect from me in most contexts. Honestly, I think was reprocessing plants have the edge overall.
Bulldozing a perfectly good house build hundreds of years ago in the middle of a city might be the dumbest idea you could have.
Can’t believe they ruined a perfectly good piece of statuary like that. What a waste! People in the 1940s were such morons.
When was the last time you’ve seen anyone live in a statuary?
Plus, Nazis would still make the pilgrimage to an empty lot.
But what if it’s a cursed house, and produces a dictator every 150 years or some shit? /s
“Neo Nazis used to make pilgrimages to Hitler’s birthplace. Now they work there!”
A bulldozer is another great option.
They’re doing that first. And secretly disposing of the rubble.
It’s a perfectly good building. Why destroy a home because an evil person lived there?
Taint
I get that some people feel that way but I sort of see it the same way as I see a murder house. The fact that someone was murdered in a house does not affect the material condition of the building. Ultimately Austria can do as they wish with it. It just seems wasteful to me to destroy it. I’d rather see it made into an LGBT museum or something else Hitler would have hated that will benefit the community while pissing off nazis.
If I lived in a suburb and nazis were always coming to visit whatever thing I would want to dismantle that thing to stop the nazis coming.
Fair point.
They would still come and leave memorials. Making it a police station is daring them to still do it and see how quickly they get arrested.
They’d just be at work in America.
Don’t give the police any ideas…
Shame it’s in the middle of a neighborhood. If it was a farmhouse out in the country, I would have suggested turning it into a sewage lagoon.
Can we get a rule about not posting current news?
Hmm, fair. If this rule had existed I wouldn’t have posted. Granted, I learned about it through word of mouth (in Austria right now), so I found the news article after. Didn’t actually realize it was super-fresh news.
Did they just turn it into a police station???
Agreed, TIL is becoming current events.
So they explicitly chose to legitimise said pilgrimages.
The only acceptable use is as a gender neutral public toilet block.
I suggest a multiplex consisting of a synagogue, a disability benefits office, and a transgender healthcare clinic.
Sounds good offhand, then you think about putting those people in a place where they’re gonna get regular visits from neonazis…
As long as there’s a public all gender bathroom and it always smells faintly of piss.
You’ve found public bathrooms that don’t smell faintly of piss?
I’m like, open pit latrine across from a Taco Bell.
think of all the fasc bullshit you could wipe out with one incediary device
Same difference
Wasn’t Hitler a cop?
He was a really mediocre artist… Then he went down hill fast.
Well he was also a runner for a while.
He was a lot of things, but never a cop…
Wow, defending Hitler.
