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TIL neo-nazis made pilgrimages to Hitler's former home, so Austria made it a police station

www.theguardian.com English
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    Austria opens police station at Hitler birthplace to deter neo-Nazi tourists
    www.theguardian.com
    It is hoped opening of unit tackling narcotics trafficking will deter people from visiting it as pilgrimage site
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    • Njos2SQEZtPVRhH@piefed.socialEnglish
      6 hours

      TIL everything that was in todays newspaper. I always figured the TIL-format was mostly for things that you could’ve learned before, but only just learned today. Peculiar little known facts.

        • Canaconda@lemmy.caEnglish
          3 hours

          Only the police station is new. I would have never expected that hitler’s birth home was still standing.

          • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3 hours

            TIL OP learned what TIL meant

            • Fmstrat@lemmy.worldEnglish
              6 hours

              TIL https://feddit.org/comment/14089300

            • katy ✨@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
              11 hours

              converting hitler’s birthplace to a police station?

              something something some of those who work forces are the same who burn crosses

              • Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zipEnglish
                8 hours

                Why didnt they bulldoze it instead?

                  • TwodogsFighting@lemdro.idEnglish
                    3 hours

                    Should paint a big ‘free Hitler memorabilia inside’ sign, and then inside is just a deep fucking pit.

                    • Fmstrat@lemmy.worldEnglish
                      6 hours

                      They are. Then building the station. They are even hiding the rubble.

                      • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.caEnglish
                        8 hours

                        The empty lot would likely still become a place of pilgrimage for these chucklefucks.

                          • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
                            3 hours

                            then we could bulldoze the chucklefucks. we could be sneaky like that

                              • CADmonkey@lemmy.worldEnglish
                                3 hours

                                “Be vewwy quiet, I’m bulldozing chuds”

                                Attempts to quietly start D9

                            • Jiral@lemmy.worldEnglish
                              6 hours

                              Bulldozing history is what revisionists actually want at least when it comes to the dark stains.

                            • expatriado@lemmy.worldEnglish
                              1 day

                              interesting, in the US neo-nazis going to police stations is just called commuting

                                • FundMECFS@piefed.zipEnglish
                                  11 hours

                                  Yeah please don’t believe the Austrian police are magically free of neo-nazis…

                                    • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
                                      3 hours

                                      of for

                                      you gotta prepose right dude

                                    • Honse@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                                      1 day

                                      I thought it was called going to work

                                        • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
                                          24 hours

                                          In the US commuting is what we call the daily travel to/from work.

                                          • xploit@lemmy.worldEnglish
                                            1 day

                                            Woosh

                                            • Swemg@lemmy.worldEnglish
                                              1 day

                                              That’s what he means

                                                • quick_snail@feddit.nlEnglish
                                                  18 hours

                                                  She*

                                                    • expatriado@lemmy.worldEnglish
                                                      10 hours

                                                      nice try, both wrong

                                                        • Ricky Rigatoni@piefed.zipEnglish
                                                          7 hours

                                                          *scrimbledorf

                                                          • quick_snail@feddit.nlEnglish
                                                            8 hours

                                                            They*?

                                                  • Sailor Anarres@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                                                    23 hours

                                                    More like the cops made their pilgrimage site their base.

                                                      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
                                                        18 hours

                                                        De-Nazification is such a fucking lie.

                                                        The surviving leadership of the Nazi Party was grafted directly onto NATO and to the extended network of fascist US/UK business interests that continued to dominate the West at the end of the war.

                                                          • FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.worldEnglish
                                                            16 hours

                                                            Hitler took the idea of manifest destiny from the Americans murdering the native population (great job Pete protecting their medals cause that’s all you have on your fucking calendar today), used it on Europe, then we Paperclipped their nerds to build better rockets…it’s been racist and fascist in the air for a long time now but it most certainly was not just ze Germans

                                                            Pretty much all of American history taught in schools is either a lie or heavily edited

                                                              • Starya67@lemmy.worldEnglish
                                                                16 hours

                                                                No. You didn’t invent everything, America.

                                                                  • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
                                                                    3 hours

                                                                    hey, that comment really azorians my projects

                                                                    we invented that one, right?

                                                                    • IndustryStandard@lemmy.worldEnglish
                                                                      8 hours

                                                                      Europeans invented America. Through slavery and white supremacy.

                                                                        • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
                                                                          3 hours

                                                                          europeans are volcanoes, you heart it first on lemmy

                                                                          • Starya67@lemmy.worldEnglish
                                                                            4 hours

                                                                            There you have it.

                                                                          • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                                                                            9 hours

                                                                            Yeah we definitely did not.

                                                                            However, I’m not sure why you’re posting this here because Hitler was absolutely heavily inspired by both the genocide of the native peoples, as well as post slavery laws like Jim Crow.

                                                                            https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/lebensraum

                                                                            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensraum

                                                                            The ideologies found at the root of Hitler’s implementation of Lebensraum modeled that of German colonialism of the New Imperialism period as well as the American ideology of manifest destiny. Hitler had great admiration for the United States’ territorial expansion and saw the destruction of Native American peoples and their cultures that took place during the United States’ westward expansion as a template for German expansion.

                                                                            https://www.history.com/articles/how-the-nazis-were-inspired-by-jim-crow

                                                                            https://macmillan.yale.edu/europe/publications/hitlers-american-modelthe-united-states-and-making-nazi-race-law-2017

                                                                            https://hmh.org/event/the-impact-of-racist-ideologies-jim-crow-and-the-nuremberg-laws/

                                                                            • ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                                                                              6 hours

                                                                              You really can’t help yourself, can you?

                                                                      • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
                                                                        22 hours

                                                                        The fuck? I would have bulldozed it a long time ago and built a waste processing plant.

                                                                          • Fmstrat@lemmy.worldEnglish
                                                                            16 hours

                                                                            It was being used as a care home.

                                                                            • realitaetsverlust@piefed.zipEnglish
                                                                              19 hours

                                                                              Bulldozing a perfectly good house build hundreds of years ago in the middle of a city might be the dumbest idea you could have.

                                                                                • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
                                                                                  18 hours

                                                                                  Can’t believe they ruined a perfectly good piece of statuary like that. What a waste! People in the 1940s were such morons.

                                                                                    • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
                                                                                      3 hours

                                                                                      This is Mr. Hilter of Brown New Hostel. Mr. Hilter, would you stand up please. (after a pause - nothing happens) Mr. Hilter has learnt the value of not being seen. However he has chosen a very obvious piece of cover.

                                                                                      • realitaetsverlust@piefed.zipEnglish
                                                                                        11 hours

                                                                                        When was the last time you’ve seen anyone live in a statuary?

                                                                                      • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.worldEnglish
                                                                                        19 hours

                                                                                        But what if it’s a cursed house, and produces a dictator every 150 years or some shit? /s

                                                                                        • village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
                                                                                          18 hours

                                                                                          Plus, Nazis would still make the pilgrimage to an empty lot.

                                                                                        • ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zipEnglish
                                                                                          16 hours

                                                                                          Waste processing plants and police stations yield the same respect from me in most contexts. Honestly, I think was reprocessing plants have the edge overall.

                                                                                            • Ricky Rigatoni@piefed.zipEnglish
                                                                                              7 hours

                                                                                              Why? Waste processing plants perform an important service to increase the health and safety of the citizenry. Sure they smell bad sometimes but so do we.

                                                                                          • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
                                                                                            20 hours

                                                                                            should have sold it to a jewish group to build a synagogue.

                                                                                              • village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
                                                                                                18 hours

                                                                                                That would have inspired hate crimes.

                                                                                                  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
                                                                                                    9 hours

                                                                                                    good be a good honeypot though. Keep it under survellence. get them out of the population.

                                                                                                    • Notyou@sopuli.xyzEnglish
                                                                                                      9 hours

                                                                                                      Put the police station across the street?

                                                                                                    • quick_snail@feddit.nlEnglish
                                                                                                      18 hours

                                                                                                      I mean, it was housing disabled people before. That’s just as good

                                                                                                        • Test_Tickles@lemmy.worldEnglish
                                                                                                          13 hours

                                                                                                          Wow, someone just earned the title of the world’s most brutal art critic.

                                                                                                            • WideEyedStupid@lemmy.worldEnglish
                                                                                                              6 hours

                                                                                                              Ha, got a chuckle out of me!

                                                                                                            • Fmstrat@lemmy.worldEnglish
                                                                                                              16 hours

                                                                                                              Yes and no. Living in a care hone with Nazis showing up at your door can’t be all that relaxing. As long as they pay to relocate that, it’s a better idea IMO.

                                                                                                            • robocall@lemmy.worldEnglish
                                                                                                              14 hours

                                                                                                              There weren’t many Jewish people there after the war. And there was a lot of ambivalence about their fate immediately after the war, with a focus on rebuilding. And a concern that a genocide against them could happen again if they returned.

                                                                                                            • electric_nan@lemmy.mlEnglish
                                                                                                              1 day

                                                                                                              “Neo Nazis used to make pilgrimages to Hitler’s birthplace. Now they work there!”

                                                                                                              • bagsy@lemmy.worldEnglish
                                                                                                                1 day

                                                                                                                A bulldozer is another great option.

                                                                                                                  • Fmstrat@lemmy.worldEnglish
                                                                                                                    16 hours

                                                                                                                    They’re doing that first. And secretly disposing of the rubble.

                                                                                                                    • daggermoon@piefed.worldEnglish
                                                                                                                      24 hours

                                                                                                                      It’s a perfectly good building. Why destroy a home because an evil person lived there?

                                                                                                                        • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                                                                                                                          15 hours

                                                                                                                          Taint

                                                                                                                            • daggermoon@piefed.worldEnglish
                                                                                                                              11 hours

                                                                                                                              I get that some people feel that way but I sort of see it the same way as I see a murder house. The fact that someone was murdered in a house does not affect the material condition of the building. Ultimately Austria can do as they wish with it. It just seems wasteful to me to destroy it. I’d rather see it made into an LGBT museum or something else Hitler would have hated that will benefit the community while pissing off nazis.

                                                                                                                                • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                                                                                                                                  7 hours

                                                                                                                                  There’s varying levels of taint. And then how to responding to different levels of taint is always historically controversial.

                                                                                                                                  I’m not losing any sleep over Hitler’s house being obliterated, though.

                                                                                                                              • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
                                                                                                                                22 hours

                                                                                                                                If I lived in a suburb and nazis were always coming to visit whatever thing I would want to dismantle that thing to stop the nazis coming.

                                                                                                                                  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
                                                                                                                                    16 hours

                                                                                                                                    They would still come and leave memorials. Making it a police station is daring them to still do it and see how quickly they get arrested.

                                                                                                                                    • daggermoon@piefed.worldEnglish
                                                                                                                                      11 hours

                                                                                                                                      Fair point.

                                                                                                                                • thefluffiest@feddit.nlEnglish
                                                                                                                                  1 day

                                                                                                                                  Don’t give the police any ideas…

                                                                                                                                  • WoodScientist@lemmy.worldEnglish
                                                                                                                                    1 day

                                                                                                                                    Shame it’s in the middle of a neighborhood. If it was a farmhouse out in the country, I would have suggested turning it into a sewage lagoon.

                                                                                                                                    • homoludens@feddit.orgEnglish
                                                                                                                                      1 day

                                                                                                                                      Can we get a rule about not posting current news?

                                                                                                                                        • Fmstrat@lemmy.worldEnglish
                                                                                                                                          16 hours

                                                                                                                                          Hmm, fair. If this rule had existed I wouldn’t have posted. Granted, I learned about it through word of mouth (in Austria right now), so I found the news article after. Didn’t actually realize it was super-fresh news.

                                                                                                                                            • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                                                                                                                                              15 hours

                                                                                                                                              Did they just turn it into a police station???

                                                                                                                                                • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                                                                                                                                                  9 hours

                                                                                                                                                  Yes

                                                                                                                                                    • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                                                                                                                                                      7 hours

                                                                                                                                                      “Da, da. Dis ist HER HITLERS HAUS.” A cop, probably.

                                                                                                                                                • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                                                                                                                                                  20 hours

                                                                                                                                                  Agreed, TIL is becoming current events.

                                                                                                                                                • HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.worldEnglish
                                                                                                                                                  22 hours

                                                                                                                                                  They’d just be at work in America.

                                                                                                                                                  • nonentity@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                                                                                                                                                    1 day

                                                                                                                                                    So they explicitly chose to legitimise said pilgrimages.

                                                                                                                                                    The only acceptable use is as a gender neutral public toilet block.

                                                                                                                                                      • WoodScientist@lemmy.worldEnglish
                                                                                                                                                        1 day

                                                                                                                                                        I suggest a multiplex consisting of a synagogue, a disability benefits office, and a transgender healthcare clinic.

                                                                                                                                                          • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                                                                                                                                                            20 hours

                                                                                                                                                            Sounds good offhand, then you think about putting those people in a place where they’re gonna get regular visits from neonazis…

                                                                                                                                                            • cavitationfetishist2@quokk.auEnglish
                                                                                                                                                              23 hours

                                                                                                                                                              As long as there’s a public all gender bathroom and it always smells faintly of piss.

                                                                                                                                                                • otacon239@lemmy.worldEnglish
                                                                                                                                                                  23 hours

                                                                                                                                                                  You’ve found public bathrooms that don’t smell faintly of piss?

                                                                                                                                                              • tehn00bi@lemmy.worldEnglish
                                                                                                                                                                23 hours

                                                                                                                                                                I’m like, open pit latrine across from a Taco Bell.

                                                                                                                                                              • ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                                                                                                                                                                1 day

                                                                                                                                                                think of all the fasc bullshit you could wipe out with one incediary device

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