TIL neo-nazis made pilgrimages to Hitler's former home, so Austria made it a police station
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/22/austria-opens-police-station-at-hitler-birthplace-to-deter-neo-nazi-touristsOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
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interesting, in the US neo-nazis going to police stations is just called commuting
Yeah please don’t believe the Austrian police are magically free of neo-nazis…
neither is our government 🙄
you gotta prepose right dude
I thought it was called going to work
Woosh
In the US commuting is what we call the daily travel to/from work.
That's what he means
She*
nice try, both wrong
*scrimbledorf
They*?
More like the cops made their pilgrimage site their base.
De-Nazification is such a fucking lie.
The surviving leadership of the Nazi Party was grafted directly onto NATO and to the extended network of fascist US/UK business interests that continued to dominate the West at the end of the war.
Hitler took the idea of manifest destiny from the Americans murdering the native population (great job Pete protecting their medals cause that’s all you have on your fucking calendar today), used it on Europe, then we Paperclipped their nerds to build better rockets…it’s been racist and fascist in the air for a long time now but it most certainly was not just ze Germans
Pretty much all of American history taught in schools is either a lie or heavily edited
No. You didn't invent everything, America.
Europeans invented America. Through slavery and white supremacy.
There you have it.
europeans are volcanoes, you heart it first on lemmy
Yeah we definitely did not.
However, I'm not sure why you're posting this here because Hitler was absolutely heavily inspired by both the genocide of the native peoples, as well as post slavery laws like Jim Crow.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/lebensraum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensraum
https://www.history.com/articles/how-the-nazis-were-inspired-by-jim-crow
https://macmillan.yale.edu/europe/publications/hitlers-american-modelthe-united-states-and-making-nazi-race-law-2017
https://hmh.org/event/the-impact-of-racist-ideologies-jim-crow-and-the-nuremberg-laws/
hey, that comment really azorians my projects
we invented that one, right?
You really can’t help yourself, can you?
"Neo Nazis used to make pilgrimages to Hitler's birthplace. Now they work there!"
converting hitler's birthplace to a police station?
something something some of those who work forces are the same who burn crosses
The fuck? I would have bulldozed it a long time ago and built a waste processing plant.
It was being used as a care home.
Bulldozing a perfectly good house build hundreds of years ago in the middle of a city might be the dumbest idea you could have.
Can't believe they ruined a perfectly good piece of statuary like that. What a waste! People in the 1940s were such morons.
When was the last time you've seen anyone live in a statuary?
This is Mr. Hilter of Brown New Hostel. Mr. Hilter, would you stand up please. (after a pause - nothing happens) Mr. Hilter has learnt the value of not being seen. However he has chosen a very obvious piece of cover.
But what if it's a cursed house, and produces a dictator every 150 years or some shit? /s
Plus, Nazis would still make the pilgrimage to an empty lot.
Waste processing plants and police stations yield the same respect from me in most contexts. Honestly, I think was reprocessing plants have the edge overall.
Why? Waste processing plants perform an important service to increase the health and safety of the citizenry. Sure they smell bad sometimes but so do we.
Don’t give the police any ideas…
A bulldozer is another great option.
It's a perfectly good building. Why destroy a home because an evil person lived there?
If I lived in a suburb and nazis were always coming to visit whatever thing I would want to dismantle that thing to stop the nazis coming.
They would still come and leave memorials. Making it a police station is daring them to still do it and see how quickly they get arrested.
Fair point.
Taint
I get that some people feel that way but I sort of see it the same way as I see a murder house. The fact that someone was murdered in a house does not affect the material condition of the building. Ultimately Austria can do as they wish with it. It just seems wasteful to me to destroy it. I'd rather see it made into an LGBT museum or something else Hitler would have hated that will benefit the community while pissing off nazis.
There's varying levels of taint. And then how to responding to different levels of taint is always historically controversial.
I'm not losing any sleep over Hitler's house being obliterated, though.
They're doing that first. And secretly disposing of the rubble.
should have sold it to a jewish group to build a synagogue.
That would have inspired hate crimes.
good be a good honeypot though. Keep it under survellence. get them out of the population.
Put the police station across the street?
I mean, it was housing disabled people before. That's just as good
Yes and no. Living in a care hone with Nazis showing up at your door can't be all that relaxing. As long as they pay to relocate that, it's a better idea IMO.
Wow, someone just earned the title of the world's most brutal art critic.
Ha, got a chuckle out of me!
There weren't many Jewish people there after the war. And there was a lot of ambivalence about their fate immediately after the war, with a focus on rebuilding. And a concern that a genocide against them could happen again if they returned.
Can we get a rule about not posting current news?
Agreed, TIL is becoming current events.
Hmm, fair. If this rule had existed I wouldn't have posted. Granted, I learned about it through word of mouth (in Austria right now), so I found the news article after. Didn't actually realize it was super-fresh news.
Did they just turn it into a police station???
Yes
"Da, da. Dis ist HER HITLERS HAUS." A cop, probably.
TIL everything that was in todays newspaper. I always figured the TIL-format was mostly for things that you could've learned before, but only just learned today. Peculiar little known facts.
TIL https://feddit.org/comment/14089300
Only the police station is new. I would have never expected that hitler's birth home was still standing.
TIL OP learned what TIL meant
Shame it's in the middle of a neighborhood. If it was a farmhouse out in the country, I would have suggested turning it into a sewage lagoon.
So they explicitly chose to legitimise said pilgrimages.
The only acceptable use is as a gender neutral public toilet block.
I suggest a multiplex consisting of a synagogue, a disability benefits office, and a transgender healthcare clinic.
Sounds good offhand, then you think about putting those people in a place where they're gonna get regular visits from neonazis...
As long as there's a public all gender bathroom and it always smells faintly of piss.
You’ve found public bathrooms that don’t smell faintly of piss?
I’m like, open pit latrine across from a Taco Bell.
Why didnt they bulldoze it instead?
The empty lot would likely still become a place of pilgrimage for these chucklefucks.
then we could bulldoze the chucklefucks. we could be sneaky like that
"Be vewwy quiet, I'm bulldozing chuds"
Attempts to quietly start D9
I like the cut of your jib!
What's a jib
They are. Then building the station. They are even hiding the rubble.
Should paint a big 'free Hitler memorabilia inside' sign, and then inside is just a deep fucking pit.
Bulldozing history is what revisionists actually want at least when it comes to the dark stains.
They'd just be at work in America.
think of all the fasc bullshit you could wipe out with one incediary device
Same difference
Wasn't Hitler a cop?
He was a lot of things, but never a cop..
Wow, defending Hitler.
He was a really mediocre artist... Then he went down hill fast.
Well he was also a runner for a while.