Even in this case I'm against damnatio memoriae

[abaris]

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.

[Regina]

I agree. I think historical places are historical places, some have wonderful memories, others horrific, sometimes both, but they're all valuable as either cultural heritage and/or historical lessons. Auschwitz is a horrible, haunting place, but it had better be left standing there as a reminder of a low point in human history we should aim not to sink to again.

[brewer]

Let it stand. Not for glorification but condemnation. Same here is the US.

[Losty]

I'm never for destroying historical things.

[Rev. Rye]

Let it stand. Not for glorification but condemnation. Same here is the US.

I'll just let Rod Serling take this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFTVh3oyilE

Of course, this reminds me of another incident. 50 years ago in Indianapolis, a girl named Sylvia Likens was put in the care of a friend of the family named Gertrude Baniszewski. Gertrude, her daughter Paula, and several neighbourhood children decided to spend the next few months torturing her. The details can be found here, although it isn't for the squeamish. Years later, there was some talk of renovating it and turning it into a women's shelter, but the funds never materialised. It was eventually demolished. It would be so great if Hitler's birthplace was kept up, but also spent for a mission diametrically opposed to Hitler's mission. Perhaps make it the headquarters for a major anti-racism society or a home for the disabled.