Two streets that have honored Nazi party members for decades in Adolf Hitler’s Austrian birthplace are finally being renamed.

Local council members in Braunau am Inn made the decision on Wednesday in what Austrian media described as a “secret vote” after receiving a commissioned report concluding that keeping the street names violated constitutional principles.

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The streets are named after composer Josef Reiter (Left) and entertainer Franz Resl, both of whom were members of the Nazi party. Reiter has been described as an “ardent national socialist closely linked to the Fuhrer” who was also born in Braunau, while Resl was characterized as “another Nazi fanatic who hated Jews.”  Both received their street designations after the war ended.

According to the BBC, approximately 200 households will receive new addresses once the changes take effect. City officials haven’t announced replacement names yet, though Holocaust survivors’ groups have suggested honoring Austrian resistance fighters instead.

Mauthausen Committee chairman Willi Mernyi praised the decision, telling local media “we had worked hard for this” and thanked all who supported them. His organization oversees the Austrian concentration camp where at least 90,000 prisoners were killed by the Nazis between 1938–1945.

Committee member Robert Eiter suggested replacing the Nazi-linked names with those of Lea Olczak, a former deputy mayor whose father died in Mauthausen, and Maria Stromberger, who joined the resistance while working as head nurse at Auschwitz.

“It is difficult to believe that in the birthplace of Hitler, one of his associates is still an honorary citizen,” Mernyi said in an earlier statement demanding action. “It is an insult to victims that must end immediately.”

Braunau sits on Austria’s German border, where Hitler was born in 1889 before his family moved away when he was still a toddler. Austrian authorities spent years wrestling with what to do about Hitler’s birthplace itself, ultimately deciding to convert the building into a police station and human rights training center.

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