The birthplace of Adolf Hitler, Braunau in Austria, has tried two street names that honored the ex -Nazis under pressure from an association, said Thursday, July 3, an chosen opposition from the Austrian city.
“There was a secret vote on Josef Reiter and Resl streets,” said the Social Democratic Councilor Martina Schäfer: “28 elected officials have spoken and nine against.” The La Libertad Party (FPö), founded by former Nazi and the first political force currently, said he opposed this change.
Adolf Hitler former relatives
Joseph Reiter (1862-1939) was a relative of Adolf Hitler, whose honorary citizenship in Braunau (North) had already been “revoked on March 19 to our instigation,” specifies Robert Eiter, a member of the Board of Directors of the Mauthausen Committee of Austria. Franz Resl was a Pangermanist propagandist and the city of Linz had already decided to change the name in 2023 a street with his name.
The ÖVP Conservative Party, also in the Austrian Foreign Ministry, directs the city of Braunau, which did not communicate with the vote of its municipal council.
In 2016, the government had bought the house where Adolf Hitler was born after long debates and began working to transform it by 2026 into a police station. “The Mauthausen committee believes that a commemorative use of the camera would be preferable,” Robert Eiter said.
Austria in the face of the memory of Nazism
This Mauthausen committee was a resistance network that was born in the camp of the same name in 1944 and still maintains contact between survivors organizing memory ceremonies.
Austria regularly faces criticism of his memory work. For a long time he has presented himself as a victim of Nazism, denying the complicity of many Austrians.
It was not until the end of the 1980s that he began to examine his responsibility in the Holocaust. A total of 65,000 Austrian Jews were killed and 130,000 forced to exile.
Source: BFM TV
