Museums already abound in Austria and a new one is about to be added to the list. The two- storey home of Adolf Hitler during his childhood will soon be converted into a museum to be known as the House of Responsibility.
This is after Austrian authorities proposed the turn the building into a center for migrant information.
Hitler’s house in the town of Braunau am Inn in Upper Austria which used to be a pub has been empty in the past two years but once it officially becomes a museum, it will showcase the Nazi’s acts in the past. Located on Salzburger Vorstadt Street, the house was a former pub called Gasthaus zur Pommer. Hitler was born in this building on April 20, 1889.
The building is currently owned by a retired local woman and has been rented by the Austrian Interior Ministry since 1972 at a price of 4,000 Euros per month. Right now, the building is being used as a bank, library, technical high school and workshop for the mentally handicapped.
There had been long debates over this projects and the Austrian Interior Ministry is expected to approve the project before the year ends. Also strongly supporting this project are Austrian historian Andreas Maislinger and Jewish-born Branko Lustig, the Hollywood producer of the controversial Steven Spielberg film entitled “Schindler’s List.”
