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The House of Responsibility (HRB also known as Hitler's birth house) is a concept to combine scientific engagement about past, present and future. The house is located in the upper-Austrian town of Braunau am Inn

Braunau am Inn

Braunau am Inn is a town in the Innviertel region of Upper Austria , the north-western state of Austria. It lies about 90 km west of Linz and about 60 km north of Salzburg, on the border with the German state of Bavaria. The population in 2001 was 16,372...

. The former tavern was a cultural center for the Nazi party during the Third Reich. Nowadays, the heritage house

Heritage House

Heritage House may refer to;*Sheffield Royal Infirmary, a former hospital in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.*Heritage House , once part of the Iron City Brewing Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....

, is used as a homestead as well as a workshop for people with disabilities.

Braunau sets a sign

After the FPÖ

FPO

FPO may refer to:*Fleet Post Office, a "city" designation in military mail *Field post office, a term for military post offices in military mail systems *For position only, a designation for placeholder graphics...

(Austrian Freedom Party) took part in the government under Jörg Haider

Jörg Haider

Jörg Haider was an Austrian politician. He was Governor of Carinthia on two occasions, the long-time leader of the Austrian Freedom Party and later Chairman of the Alliance for the Future of Austria , a breakaway party from the FPÖ.Haider was controversial within Austria and abroad for comments...

in early 2000, the “Braunauer Rundschau” (Braunau

Braunau am Inn

review) started to collect signatures under the slogan “Braunau setzt ein Zeichen” (Braunau sets a sign). Andreas Maislinger

Andreas Maislinger

Andreas Maislinger is an Austrian historian and founder of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service and Braunau Contemporary History Days.- Studying and learning :...

, an Austrian historian and founder of Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service

Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service

The Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service is an alternative to Austria's compulsory national military service / alternative service founded in 1992. Since 1998 it is part of the Austrian Service Abroad...

and Braunau Contemporary History Days, reacted on the call and suggested setting up a House of Responsibility in the house where Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...

was born.

Past – Present – Future

The “Braunau review” presented the idea on May 4, 2000:

(Translated)

Volunteers from EU-countries, Austrian Zivildieners and former Austrian Servants Abroad should work and live together in the house. Because of this there should take place a constant exchange of ideas. The ‘House of Responsibility’ should be something completely new, split into three stories, where the ‘unwanted inheritance’ and the refurbishment of the background of the NS should take place on the first floor. The second floor will be devoted to the present, and concrete help for people will be offered for example by the Austrian Service Abroad
Austrian Service Abroad
Austrian Service Abroad is a non-profit initiative and was founded in 1998 by Andreas Maislinger and Andreas Hörtnagl. Since 2001 Michael Prochazka is part of the managing committee.-General Information:...

and also by human rights – and third-world projects. On the third floor ideas for a more peaceful future should be worked out.

Philosophical basis for this project is the book 'Das Prinzip Verantwortung' (The concept responsibility) written by Hans Jonas

Hans Jonas

Hans Jonas was a German-born philosopher who was, from 1955 to 1976, Alvin Johnson Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York City.Jonas's writings were very influential in different spheres...

in 1979.

Realisation

The project couldn’t be realized in the following years but the idea of taking responsibility remained. In 2005 the owner of a house close to where Hitler was born offered his house for the project. In 2002 members of Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service

Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service

(AHMS) remembered the Austrian Righteous Among the Nations

Righteous Among the Nations

Righteous among the Nations of the world's nations"), also translated as Righteous Gentiles is an honorific used by the State of Israel to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis....

in front of Hitler's birth house. In October 2009 mayor Gerhard Skiba

Gerhard Skiba

Gerhard Skiba of the Austrian Social Democratic Party was elected mayor of the city of Braunau am Inn in 1989. He became internationally known after setting up a memorial stone for the victims of Fascism in front of the house where Adolf Hitler was born.In 1992 representatives from Bautzen,...

argued for the first time in support of a 'House of Peace' or 'House of Responsibility' in Hitler's Birthhouse in Austria's Newspaper Kurier

Kurier

The Kurier is an Austrian newspaper based in Vienna....

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Braunau sets a sign

Past – Present – Future

Realisation

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