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.
It’s a perfectly good building. Why destroy a home because an evil person lived there?
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.
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.
Fair point.
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.
There’s varying levels of taint. And then how to responding to different levels of taint is always historically controversial.
I’m not losing any sleep over Hitler’s house being obliterated, though.