Ludwig Leier
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first heard Jul 2026
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It has changed its facade.
That is the main thing, because the Austrian Ministry of the Interior thought it would be a good idea to change the facade of Hitler's birthplace in order to avoid the symbolic quality of the house.
When the state, the Ministry of the Interior, decided to buy the building, they had the idea of implementing a police station in the building.
Well, in every political system, the police have to maintain law and order.
In a functioning democracy, this is not a problem.
Police are needed.
But in a repressive society, more so in a dictatorship, the police can easily become a means of violent repression, I would say.
Hitler's Nazi regime is a good example.
Well, solid or not, that's the question.
According to the Pulse, for instance, these days, the Austrian Freedom Party, which is a populist right-wing party founded by Nazis in the 50s, they can expect support of nearly 40% of the votes these days in the next election.
That was the case, or that is the case every now and then.
It's not too frequent, but we have to face the fact that Hitler himself in his book Mein Kampf, My Struggle in English, in 1925 confessed that fate decreed his birth in Braunau on the borderline of the two German countries that must be reunified by the younger generation and so on.
Neither the new facade nor the police station
will help to get rid of the irrational symbolic quality of Brownell.
There were very many interesting proposals for the use of the building.
I give you one example, a so-called house of responsibility where young people from all over the world could meet and discuss concepts, develop international projects of mutual understanding of humanity, democracy.
Concepts like this were not taken into consideration by the Ministry of the Interior.
The main argument was police station in this building guarantees that all these worshippers will not dare to commemorate Hitler's birthday, for instance, when there are tourists coming in order to watch the plays.
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