Even in this case I'm against damnatio memoriae

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The austrian authorities expropriated the house where Hitler was born recently. Now they're considering demolishing it. Until a couple of years ago, it held a workshop for the mentally disabled. I considered that to be the perfect use this house could have been put to.

Anyway, I'm against dmolishing it. Like it or not, it's a historical place. Even if you want to prevent Nazis gathering there to commemorate Hitler, it's like fighting cancer with aspirin. It might ease the symptoms for a bit, but it doesn't take care of the illness. I never understood this mentality of tearing down everything that has any connection to the Third Reich.

I also have low understanding for the ban laws on nazi symbolisms and speech. Let everyone display what kind of asshole they are. At least you know whom you're dealing with. Again, it's like fighting cancer with aspirin. The rats simply go into hiding, but they're not gone by simply banning them from spewing their brown shit.


http://www.coreoo.eu/topstories/austria-...birthplace

Austria's interior minister says he can imagine having the house where Adolf Hitler was born demolished, calling it "the cleanest solution" for the building that nobody wants, reports the AP. The Austrian government wants to expropriate the house in Braunau am Inn on the German border where the future Nazi leader was born in 1889 to ensure that it doesn't become a place of pilgrimage for neo-Nazis. The Interior Ministry has rented the house since 1972 to prevent its misuse, subletting it to various charitable organizations. The building has stood empty since a care center for adults with disabilities moved out in 2011.