Austria to change two streets named after Nazi supporters

Two streets in Adolf Hitler’s hometown in Austria should be renamed after years of complaints that commemorate the Nazis, officials say.

The Braunau Am Inn Council made the decision on Wednesday after “secret vote”, according to local media. This was followed by a report commissioned by the local government, which concluded that the preservation of names was unconstitutional.

The streets were named after composer Joseph Reiter and delayer Franz Rebl, and they were both members of the Nazi party.

About 200 households will receive a new address after the names have been changed.

The Austrian government has long been criticized by historians for the way it acknowledged its role in World War II and more special that it is positioned as a victim, not as a participant.

The transition to the renaming of the streets was met as a “symbolic solution” by the committee that controls Mautausen’s concentration camp in northern Austria, where at least 90,000 prisoners were killed between 1938-1945.

Commission chairman Willie Mernie told local media that they had worked hard for it, “and thanked everyone who supported them.

Robert Eitr, a member of the committee, added that they had proposed the names to be changed to honor the Austrians who actively oppose the Nazis – former deputy mayor Lea Olchak, whose father died in Mautausen, and Maria Stromberger, who joined the Resistance.

Many streets in Austria have already been renamed because of their Nazi associations, including one that worships Ferdinand Porsche, founder of the luxury cars company, in Linz – but 80 years since the end of the war still remain.

About 65,000 Austrian Jews were killed in the Holocaust during World War II when the Nazi Party, led by Adolf Hitler, worked to eradicate the Jewish population of Europe, as well as the Slavic and Roma population.

During the war, the Nazi regime systematically kills more than six million Jews.