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    Activists call for 'Hitler balcony' in Vienna to be destroyed

    Activists are calling for a little-remembered balcony on the front of Vienna's town hall to be destroyed because it is where Adolf Hitler gave a speech in 1938, AFP reports.

    Hitler made the speech on April 9, 1938 from a specially constructed wooden balcony erected in the center of the building's imposing neo-Gothic facade, but it was later replaced with a permanent stone one to commemorate the event.

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