Adolf Hitler parents' tombstone in Austria removed

[Jabotinsky Admirer]

 EUROPE
30 March 2012 Last updated at 09:59 ET
Adolf Hitler parents' tombstone in Austria removed
 The site used to attract various tributes from right-wing extremists
The tombstone marking the grave of Adolf Hitler's parents in Austria has been removed, officials say, to end its use as a pilgrimage site for right-wing extremists.
The grave is in Leonding, 10km (six miles), from the city of Linz.
A descendant of the family made the decision, the mayor of Leonding, Walter Brunner, said.
Adolf Hitler was born near Braunau, 100km away, but spent much of his childhood in Leonding.
Mr Brunner said he had no more details of the decision by the descendant, but welcomed it, the Associated Press reported.
The relative has given up her rights to the rented plot.
Without ceremony
The tombstone for the parents, Alois and Klara, was removed on Wednesday and the plot will now be used for a new burial, the pastor of the parish, Kurt Pittertschatscher, told local media.
"The rights holder has relinquished it. The tombstone has been taken away and the grave can now be reassigned," Mr Pittertschatscher said.
He added: "The upkeep of the grave was becoming increasingly difficult as the years went by, and the grave... kept being misused for gatherings of sympathisers."
 When asked whether he believed it unlikely anyone would want the plot, he said: "I really haven't thought about it."
The descendant is said to be an elderly female relative of Alois Hitler's first wife, Anna.
Mr Pittertschatscher said the relative had employed a stonemason to remove the headstone without ceremony.
It is not known what happened to the remains in the grave. A white gravel square and a tree now stand at the site.
Anti-fascist groups had lobbied for the removal of the tombstone.
In 2011, a vase bearing the word "unvergesslich" (unforgettable) with the two s's marked in the style of the SS was left at the site.
The Upper Austrian Network Against Fascism pressure group said the removal was a "welcome success".
The network's Robert Eiter said: "A lot of flowers and wreaths were deposited there from people who clearly were admirers. It had to do with the son and not the parents."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17562615
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/grave-of-hitler-s-parents-in-austria-removed-over-neo-nazi-threat-1.421617

[muman613]

What I wouldnt do to piss on the grave of pissler and his parents...

[Jabotinsky Admirer]

Hitler and Eva Braun don't have graves.  The Russians destroyed their corpses in Magdeburg, East Germany in the early 1970s.

[muman613]

Hitler and Eva Braun don't have graves.  The Russians destroyed their corpses in Magdeburg, East Germany in the early 1970s.

Of course I am aware of that...

[Israel Chai]

Of course I am aware of that...

source?

[Rubystars]

How can they reassign the plot if they are already buried there? Would they have to dig them up and throw them in the trash for the plot to be reassigned?

[muman613]

source?

Well wikipedia has this info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler

Berlin surrendered on 2 May. Records in the Soviet archives—obtained after the fall of the Soviet Union—showed that the remains of Hitler, Braun, Joseph and Magda Goebbels, the six Goebbels children, General Hans Krebs, and Hitler's dogs, were repeatedly buried and exhumed.[286]  On 4 April 1970 a Soviet KGB team with detailed burial charts secretly exhumed five wooden boxes which had been buried at the SMERSH facility in Magdeburg. The remains from the boxes were thoroughly burned and crushed, after which the ashes were thrown into the Biederitz river, a tributary of the nearby Elbe.[287]