Should the Hitler balcony in Vienna be open to the public?
The House of Austrian History wants to open a balcony on Vienna s Hofburg palace to museum visitors. A very different person once stepped onto it: Adolf Hitler.
Giant crowds gathered on Heldeplatz to cheer Hitler as he delivered his Anschluss speech on March 15, 1938
A visitor to the House of Austrian History, the country s contemporary history museum, located in the curved colonnaded Neue Burg wing of Vienna s imperial Hofburg Palace, can walk right up to doors that lead to one of the most infamous balconies in Austrian history: the site of Adolf Hitler s speech on March 15, 1938, in which he announced to cheering Austrians that his birth country had been incorporated into the Third Reich, an event known as the Anschluss.
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