Hitler's family home goes on sale - Germany

The home that Adolf Hitler was born in is up for sale. It is priced at 2.2 million euros, but the locals in the Austrian town of Braunau am Inn are worried that Nazi sympathizers would treat is as a shrine.

BBC: Hitler House Sale Alarms Locals

This is surprising considering that the bunker where he died was filled with rubble and covered with a football pitch.

What, should they have restored it and made it into a bunker for disabled kids?

They tried but could not get planning permission for the ramps...

I've got a chunk of Hitler's Berghof but I don't use it for a shrine.

They are not afraid of anything becoming a shrine. The Austrians don't care like the Germans do because they act like they were occupied, rather than merged, with Germany. They also don't bear the embarrassment of losing the war like Germany.

On top of that, they have plenty of Nazi shrines and former SS whom they refuse to prosecute.

I understand it as a media gimmik to sell it at a better price may be.

That's exactly what it is.

Sadly you cant burn things twice.

According to a program I watched last night, there sits a Chinese restaurant and a Kindergarten above it now.

It's just 100 meters or so from the Holocaust monument in Berlin.. Dead easy to find. I saw it on a guided tour years ago.. Was there recently and tagged on to a guided tour. There's nothing there to identify it - except a plaque with some historical info.. Berlin is awesome for walking around and seeing so many significant historical sites - from various periods even.. Roaring 20's, WWII, Cold War, Wall, etc..

If you get BBC, then definitely watch this documentary on the history of Berlin. Very very interesting.

On the topic of Braunau, this is the city of Simbach's take on the birthplace of Hitler.

BBC programs only available in the UK...

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having read your posts about racism in germany, i have a feeling that are you implying that germans have censored them or something like that.

no I think he means we get bbc entertainment here, which is not the regular bbc programing in Britain. That being said people with british sky have absolutely normal bbc.