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Hitler birthplace: Austrian minister retreats on demolition
Source: BBC
Hitler birthplace: Austrian minister retreats on demolition
18 October 2016 Europe
Austria's Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka has rowed back on comments about plans to tear down the house in which Adolf Hitler was born in 1889.
He had claimed a committee of experts had decided the house should be demolished.
But the committee insists not, saying a demolition would "come close to a denial of the Nazi history in Austria".
On Tuesday Mr Sobotka told journalists the house should be "converted so that it was no longer recognisable".
He said one could debate about whether that entailed a demolition, and added that architects would be invited to put forward proposals to convert the house.
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18 October 2016 Europe
Austria's Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka has rowed back on comments about plans to tear down the house in which Adolf Hitler was born in 1889.
He had claimed a committee of experts had decided the house should be demolished.
But the committee insists not, saying a demolition would "come close to a denial of the Nazi history in Austria".
On Tuesday Mr Sobotka told journalists the house should be "converted so that it was no longer recognisable".
He said one could debate about whether that entailed a demolition, and added that architects would be invited to put forward proposals to convert the house.
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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37690981
[font size=1]The fate of the building in which Hitler was born in 1889 has long been a contentious issue in Braunau am Inn[/font]
