Hitler's Austrian 'culture capital'
Adolf Hitler had ambitious plans for Linz, the city where he grew up.
He wanted to make the town on the Danube into one of the five Fuhrer cities of the Third Reich, along with Berlin, Hamburg, Nuremberg and Munich.
Linz is now examining this page of its past in an exhibition called the Fuhrer's Capital of Culture.
Martin Heller, the artistic director of Linz 2009, says there was an obligation to tackle the city's Nazi history.
"We want to reflect back and show how cultural and political ambitions went together in the Nazi time," he says.
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He wanted to make the town on the Danube into one of the five Fuhrer cities of the Third Reich, along with Berlin, Hamburg, Nuremberg and Munich.
Linz is now examining this page of its past in an exhibition called the Fuhrer's Capital of Culture.
Martin Heller, the artistic director of Linz 2009, says there was an obligation to tackle the city's Nazi history.
"We want to reflect back and show how cultural and political ambitions went together in the Nazi time," he says.