The ministry’s current plan, to prescribe the building a social purpose, is best, Phillips said. To tear it down would look like an erasure of history and at the same time, he pointed out, the space could still remain enticing to sympathizers. In Kotanko’s mind, the structure “should simply say what the building was and the connection between Hitler and Braunau and Braunau and Hitler.”Ĭarson Phillips, the managing director of the Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre in Toronto, said he recognizes deciding what to do with the structure is difficult.
It remained a public library for a couple decades and at one point a bank took up occupancy before the school, and eventually, the Lebenshilfe did. Photo by Florian Kotanko/Stadtverein BraunauĪfter the Allies liberated Austria, the building had various uses. Article content Hitler entering Braunau in 1938 after the Anschluss. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
