Museum plan for Hitler birthplace
PLANS to turn the building where Adolf Hitler was born into a museum about his crimes could be approved.
The private venture is being backed by the Austrian interior ministry, which is keen to strip the former pub of its allure for right-wing extremists.
Oscar-winning Jewish-born film producer Branko Lustig is also supporting the remembrance project, pledging money from Hollywood figures.
The Nazi leader was born in the house, in the Austrian town of Braunau am Inn, on April 20, 1889. He and his family moved a few years later.
In 1938, it was bought by Hitler’s party secretary Martin Bormann and became a Nazi ‘cultural centre’. The iron gates still bear the initials ‘MB’.
Since World War II it has served as a bank, workshop, library, school and as a home for the disabled but has lain empty for the past three years. A decision is expected within weeks.