14 DAY TRIAL // Adolf Hitler will soon be stripped of the honorary citizen's title that the German town of Goslar presented him with during the Nazi rule.
According to Global Post, it was this past Tuesday when high officials in Goslar passed a motion to have Adolf Hitler's name removed from the town's list of honorary citizens.
They are now waiting for the town's administrative council to confirm the decision. The council is expected to do so this coming October 29.
Hitler has been dead for 68 years now, so he probably won't mind losing this honorary citizenship. Still, there are some who claim that his name should not be erased from said list.
They say that doing so would be no more and no less than an attempt to change history. As Sigmar Gabriel of the Social Democratic Party put it, “[It] is an attempt to whitewash something that can't be whitewashed.”
I hate to say it, but I agree. I think the name should stay on that list.
Historians say that, during the Nazi rule, Adolf Hitler became a honorary citizen of some 4,000 cities, towns and communities. Most of them stripped him of this title shortly after his death and the end of World War II.