Austria to change two streets called the name of the Nazi supporters
Officials say two streets in Adolf Hitler’s birthplace in Austria should be renamed after long complaints that they commemorate the Nazis.
The Braunau AM Inn Council took the decision on Wednesday after “a secret vote”, according to the local media. A report, commissioned by the local government, was followed up that preserving the names is unconstitutional.
The streets are named after the composer Joseph Reich and entertainment, Franz Racel, both of whom were members of the Nazi Party.
About 200 families will get a new address after changing the names.
Historians have always been subjected to the Austrian government to criticism through the way he confessed to its role in World War II, especially to put it as a victim instead of a participant.
It was welcomed by moving to the renames of the streets as a “decision of symbolic importance” by the MATHAUSEN Committee. At least 90,000 prisoners were killed by the Nazis in the Methawisin Camp in North Austria between 1938-1945.
The head of the committee, Willie Mirni, told local media that they “worked hard for this”, and thanked all those who supported them.
Robert Eter, a member of the committee, added that they suggested changing the names to honor the Austrians who opposed the activity of the Nazis – the vice -mayor of Leah Ulkakk, whose father died in Motawasin, and Maria Stromberger, who joined the resistance while working as a major nurse in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.
Several streets have already been renamed in Austria because of its Nazi associations, including one honoring Ferdinand Porsche, founder of the luxury car company, in Linz – but 80 years after the end of the war, others are still others.
About 65,000 Austrian Jews were killed in the Holocaust during World War II, when the Nazi Party, led by Adolf Hitler, worked to eliminate the Jewish population in Europe, as well as the Slavic population and Rome.
During the war, the Nazi regime systematically killed more than six million Jews.
