《中英對照讀新聞》Hitler’s childhood home to be torn down, Austria announces 奧地利宣佈，希特勒的童年故居將被拆除

◎陳正健

The house in Austria where Adolf Hitler was born is set to be demolished and replaced with a new building to stop it becoming a place of pilgrimage of neo-Nazis, the Austrian government has said. The future of the house has been widely debated, with opinion torn between razing it or changing its use.

奧地利政府表示，希特勒於奧國出生時所住的房子將被拆除，換成新的建物，以阻止此地成為新納粹主義者的朝聖地。這間房子的未來已被廣泛辯論，夷平房子或另作他用的意見分歧。

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The argument was further complicated after its owner refused to sell but Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka said a committee of experts had decided that the house should be demolished, reported Austrian newspaper Die Presse. A new building put in its place will be used for administrative or for charitable purposes.

據奧地利《新聞報》報導，在房屋主人拒絕出售後，這項爭議變得更為複雜，但內政部長沃夫根．索布卡指出，專家委員會已決定，這間房子應被拆除，蓋在原地的新屋將會做為行政或慈善之用。

Hitler was born in a rented room on the top floor of the building, near the Austro-German border, on 20 April 1889. During Nazi rule, the house was transformed into a shrine to Hitler as the town drew in a wave of tourists. But as the Nazis began to lose control in 1944, it was shut up.

1889年4月20日，希特勒出生在這棟靠近奧國和德國邊界的建物頂樓的一間租房內。在納粹統治期間，該屋被改造成希特勒的聖地，當時小鎮吸引一波觀光客潮。但等到1944年當納粹開始失勢，該屋也被關閉。

Despite the efforts of successive governments to stop it drawing neo-Nazis sympathisers, locals say it still does. "I’ve even witnessed people from Italy or from France coming here… for adoration purposes," a teacher said.

儘管繼任政府努力阻止吸引新納粹支持者，但當地民眾表示人潮依舊。一名老師指出：「我甚至看到人們從義大利或法國來到這裡…，為了崇拜之目的。」

新聞辭典

demolish：動詞，拆除，毀壞。例句：Many buildings were demolished by a hurricane.（許多建築物被颶風毀壞。）

pilgrimage：名詞，朝聖，朝拜。例句：Many people go on a pilgrimage to Mecca.（許多人前往麥加朝聖。）

neo-Nazis：名詞，新納粹份子，新納粹主義者。例句：The Greek neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party has announced it will support Trump.（希臘新納粹主義「金色黎明黨」宣佈，該黨將支持川普。）