European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 20, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday april 20. 1989 the stars and stripes. Page 3. Adolf Hal Lerat the height of i dictatorial Power. At re he a Pluf us dedicated Sci peace free Linn and democracy stands in front of the Houm where Hitler was born. Hitler s Birthplace a from Page 1 victims of the statement mentions Hitler s n it to Only once. Promotional pamphlets , a City of 17,000, note that Saint us Pisan s Jas food Tower in the third tallest Church Tower in Austria and that the town museum has preserved the Only Bell foundry i n Europe s Southern Germany speaking Region. The pamphlets Staminger i medieval police chief famed for his Beard which was so Long he kept it. Rolled up in a leather bag,-.legend says the Beard was unrolled he night stain utter of cd inc cily Hall during a fire in 567, me tripped in his Beard while running the Story goes and broke his neck. The pamphlets however doa l men Tion Hitler who visited Braun Only once after in nosing Austria in i9j8.when the dictator Rode across the inn River Bridge on March 12 of that year the enthusiastic crowd greeting him Tii a tided inc a i women s org Iii Iii Ion chairwoman who was dressed in Black to mourn the recent death of her husband. The superstitious Hitler look. Note of never resumed Loli Runau me regarded Linz some 50 Miles tothe East As his Hometown. But his father s. Career Nieves and ill rement. Meant Hitler moved often As a child his parents and a Tirol her arc bund in a Church cemetery in lending. Near lint literally a Stone s throw from an where the hitlers lived for six years the family also resided in Haft old Lamback i and other Austria towns As Well As 1 Asaju. While those frequent mov i May have contrib fwd to Hitler s unsettled upbringing the also diffused late Public attention concerning his origins. Each town carries Only a fraction of the burdensome legs cd that nil of them would rather forget. In Lambach Hitler attended school and Sang in a boss1, choir from is a phys at a Benedictine Institute which still exists. The Coats of arms of former abbots arc scattered throughout ill in Iti Tut including one resembling the nazi Swastika. Some scholars suggest that the Yozing Hitler adopted the dead Abbot s Symbol and altered it slightly hut a i9s2 study by the school notes that swastikas fire a in european and other culture and Hitler made no mention of the Symbol when he visited the Institute As an adult Bunker in april 195, Liis associates Bairn cd his body and left mid marked grave therefore his parents grave serves As an alternate Magnet sympathy or said the curious. Lull Hitler s Birthplace is subject to More Sci tiny. Jhan the other towns. Ai divas Maislinger of Jenhs brute. University s political liw tute said that endows a Rannu with a certain re Ippun Sibilly because the Hitler connection has lurid to to itchy Pilgrim c2echoslovakia Yugoslavia historians leave no doubt that the pageantry of i he religious Cere monies impressed the Young Hitler who flirted briefly with inc notion of joining a religious order. Tic a i gatherings he orchestrated later in Foscz whom paseaner. Hitler lived in Londing longer than anew Bare else. His father died there in 14&3, and his Mother was buried next to her husband when she died in 1907. Lite Grae and us detailed Heads Tanc arc still there surrounded on All sides by much newer Gra is. After Huser shot himself in a Berlin flue site for Many of n Azis tie City still a not fount an add Hutc answer to that he w role in inc weekly newspaper Frau Naur Mundschau adding that even the new Monument avoids the Issue by failing to mention hot for As though be or the problem is not so easily ducked in the rest of Austria and in Germany where a string of Annicc Rajnes marking tile horrors of the tit ird Reich arc pc Mii iders of Hitler s legacy. ear s so end of Hitler s bloodless annexation of Austria was clouded by questions about Austri an president Kurt Waldhein s service in German army units linked to world War ii atrocities in the Balkans in november the president of the West German arli ancient was forced to resign after delivering an insensitive speech on the 50lh anniversary of Kra s Lallum lit a night of anti jewish rioting incited by the a is. This a cat a political storm has erupted Over whether West German president Richard. Von. Sci seeker should Vista Warsaw in september to Mark the 50th anniversary of the Ger Man invasion of Poland the Blitzkrieg. That launched world War ii More troubling Are political gains by right Wing parties in West Crlin and Frankfurt which won much of their support on Rila forms Jent Anding Immi Gration limits for foreigners. The parties deny having Neona ii casings Slit 36 percent of the sup porters of Berlin s Republican party have a Gem rally favourable View of hit or according to the weekly newsmagazine Der Spiegel. That compares to 14percent far Germany us a whole. Fearful of a. Repeat of the Street Vio Lence involving political i a i Isis that occurred rear i Lite for s House on the 90th anniversary of his birth in 1979, he aus Trian Golf in mint is trying or keep right Wing Cir Ryan radicals from crossing the Border into Austria this year. To prevent hitter s Birthplace von becoming a Nikii shrine the political Institute s Maslin Jjck suggests an inter National Competition among can Centra ton Camp survivors War veterans find other groups for ideas on How to con Vert the House into a historical Center i n a Small unintended Way the House s present use already serves As a repudiation of the Naii legacy. The 50 Handi capped children who work there milking carpets toys and other Tores Are. Because of hair disabilities the sort of a copse hit Ler s regime killed in an attempt to Iwer a flawless super race. And Lobenb bile assistant director Kurt hell said his handicapped Star have never heard of Adolf Hiller. I who tue a Nar a Beirut
