Town debates future of Hitler’s birth place

What would you do?

Exterior view of Adolf Hitler’s birth house in Braunau am Inn, Austria, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. With its thick walls, huge arched doorway and deep-set windows, the 500-year old house near the town square would normally be prime property. Because Hitler was born here, it has become a huge headache for town fathers forced into deciding what to do with a landmark so intimately linked to evil. (AP Photo / Kerstin Joensson)

Via the AP: Town debates future of house of Hitler’s birth.

Living space in Braunau is scarce, but an imposing Renaissance-era building stands empty in this post-card pretty Austrian town because of the sinister shadow cast by a former tenant: Adolf Hitler.

With its thick walls, huge arched doorway and deep-set windows, the 500-year-old house near the town square would normally be prime property. Because Hitler was born here, it has become a huge headache for town fathers forced into deciding what to do with a landmark so intimately linked to evil.