Hitler birthplace memorial stone

After World War II, the building was rented by the Austrian Republic in 1952 and obtained heritage protection as part of the historic city centre.

The house then for many years accommodated a branch of the charity "Lebenshilfe", and operated as a day centre and workshops for people with learning difficulties.

[2][needs update] Suggestions regarding making Hitler's birthplace a place of remembrance for the victims of Nazism had already been made in the early years after the war.

For a long time, the council discussed putting up a memorial tablet on the house, and in 1983 the decision was made by the then mayor Hermann Fuchs, with intervention from Culture Advisor Wolfgang Simböck.

In April 1989, (two weeks before the centenary of Hitler's birth) a memorial was placed directly in front of the house on public ground.