The Austrian city of Linz has announced plans to rename a street honouring the founder of the luxury carmaker Porsche after a commission investigating controversial names found his Nazi past “problematic”.
The renaming of streets and other public places is still a hotly debated issue in Austria – Adolf Hitler’s birthplace – which Nazi Germany annexed in 1938 and which long cast itself as a victim.
Only in the past three decades has the country begun to seriously examine its role in the Holocaust, in which about a third of Austria’s Jewish population of 200,000 were murdered.
