“Braunau must revoke honorary citizenship of Hitler confidant”

2023-11-26 21:41:33

LINZ. The well-known writer Ludwig Laher points to Upper Austria. News indicates that Braunau’s only honorary citizen, the composer Joseph Reiter (1862 – 1939), an ardent National Socialist who was close to the “Führer”. “It’s hard to believe: In Adolf Hitler’s birthplace, one of his confidants is still an honorary citizen today!”says Willi MernyiChairman of the Mauthausen Committee Austria (MKÖ). “This mockery of the Nazi victims must stop immediately.”

The Upper Austria. Network against racism and right-wing extremism joins Mernyi’s call. “The Interior Ministry is currently having Hitler’s birthplace rebuilt for millions of euros because it wants to ‘neutralize’ his history. Braunau’s brown honorary citizen shows again how absurd that is.”emphasizes network spokesman Robert Eiter. The anti-fascist organizations not only demand that the mayor and municipal council of Braunau quickly ensure that Reiter’s honorary citizenship is revoked. Also the Josef Reiter Street and the Franz Resl Street in the city are to be renamed. “Reiter and Resl were both fanatical Nazi agitators and Jew-haters. Any kind of appreciation of such people is intolerable in a democracy!”provides Willi Mernyi fest. “If the many official assurances that anti-Semitism has no place in Austria are serious, there is no way around renaming the two streets.”so Robert Eiter. (press releases)