What should they do with Hitler Birthplace ?

[youngmafbog]

http://news.sky.com/s...or-hitlers-birthplace

Personally I think it should be razed to the ground as should anything else that could become a shrine to him or the Nazis

[anotheoldgit]

I cannot see that destroying the building would do any good.

Hitler was born in that building 123 years ago, and he has been dead 67 years, and nothing untoward has happened in all those years, just because that building exists.

Shall we destroy all other historical structures just because whoever was associated with them wasn't a virtue of humanity?

Has regards it being a shrine to neo-Nazis they will find other venues even if this building is razed to the ground.

[ummmm]

Why erase history?

[jd_1984]

Like him or not he was a significant part of modern History. We should never commemorate the home in the traditional sense, but it may be seen as a significant place in history....... or not. Personally, I care not!
We dont know where he was buried so should we care where it all started?

[jd_1984]

Can i retract my "Like him or not" comment!" Bad choice of phrase!!!!

[Gromit]

I agree with AOG.

But I would make the exception for cornershops in Grantham, Lincs.

[anotheoldgit]

/// We dont know where he was buried so should we care where it all started? ///

Interesting to know what did happen to his remains though.

http://articles.cnn.c...eadership?_s=PM:WORLD

[Snafu03]

maybe the Discovery channel can make a documentary on it and screen it three times a day for the next five years just in case we forget the Holocaust.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

I take it that you won't be attending the state funeral then.

http://www.dailymail....-Pauls-Cathedral.html

[Gromit]

I have my rotten fruit ready AOG.

[jno]

I agree, pull it down. The worry isn't just that it will become a shrine, if it isn't one already, but that it might actually provide a home for every neoNazi for miles around. Replace it with another block maybe, one in which Hitler never lived, and that's much less likely to be a problem.

[joko]

if its not a shrine already i doubt it will become one now.
however i understand the risk - to get a concentration of nazi symnpathisers etc togetehr in one place may lead to trouble -
itd also be a target for people seeking to kill nazis - ignorant people who would assume all who live there must love hitler

turn it into something good - a hospital, school, etc

[Thatcherite]

I can't understand the hysteria, he was a bad guy, yes, but a complete amateur compared to all the various religions around the world. if we are going to start razing buildings to the ground let's start with the religious ones.

[anotheoldgit]

When I was in Cuba I visited Al Capone's villa, it is now a restaurant, not a shrine for the World's crooks and hoodlums.

[Mick-Talbot]

Take the pis$ and open a shop selling Bagels.

[jd_1984]

http://www.telegraph....ler-clothes-shop.html

This guy could expand his empire and re-locate!!

[MarkRae]

> a concentration of Nazi symnpathisers

<ahem>

[jno]

he was a bad guy, yes, but a complete amateur compared to all the various religions around the world

You have to be kidding. Have a look at this list of genocides

http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/dictat.html

How many of them were professional religious killings?

[jd_1984]

^^^^^ !!!!!!!

[Zeuhl]

^
Agreed
History is part of us all - good and bad

Inevitably, physical artefacts and places make them real - Hitler could just fade into an unreal bogeyman (or hero) but it's the ordinariness of places like his house that makes it real and meaningful.

I was driving somewhere last week and passed a 'pillbox' in a field
A Battle of Britain Hero was speaking on the radio earlier today

What were they all about if Hitler disappears from memory?