Could razing Hitler’s first home backfire?
- Written by Despina Stratigakos, Professor of Architecture, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
The Austrian government has announced that it will demolish or completely remake the house where Hitler was born 127 years ago in the Austrian town Braunau am Inn. The news has brought a new round of unwanted media attention to the small locale on the Inn River near the German border.
The 17th-century building, part of the town’s historic...