Austrian city also intends to rename three other thoroughfares bearing names of notable men after commission’s report
The Austrian city of Linz has announced plans to rename a street honouring the founder of the luxury carmaker Porsche after a commission probing 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.
