Hitler birthplace: Minister retreats on demolition

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 […]

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”.