BRAUNAU AM INN, Austria (AP) — Adolf Hitler’s birthplace in Austria was officially inaugurated as a police station on Wednesday in an effort to destroy the building’s appeal as a site of pilgrimage for people who glorify the Nazi dictator. A memorial stone is to remain in place outside the house in Braunau am Inn…
It’s a whole thing. I stayed in an inn in a town in Germany where Hess or one of the other high ranking Nazis was buried and the innkeeper told us there’s always people coming into town and leaving little offerings on the grave. He described them as “creatures depositing leavings that the city had to keep cleaning up”. I’d hoped he meant it was vandalism, but no.
That description reminds me of the way Guillermo del Toro described the vampires in The Strain. Makes me wonder if theres some symbolism about them he was referring to
It’s a whole thing. I stayed in an inn in a town in Germany where Hess or one of the other high ranking Nazis was buried and the innkeeper told us there’s always people coming into town and leaving little offerings on the grave. He described them as “creatures depositing leavings that the city had to keep cleaning up”. I’d hoped he meant it was vandalism, but no.
That description reminds me of the way Guillermo del Toro described the vampires in The Strain. Makes me wonder if theres some symbolism about them he was referring to