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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KLJ, post: 35382, member: 1910&quot;]Bavaria, as I&#039;m sure you know, was both the heart of Nazism and in the American zone.&nbsp; Once Patton was dismissed, the Americans were particularly aggressive about denazification.&nbsp; Bavaria was at the center of that.&nbsp; The British, who occupied Dusseldorf, didn&#039;t denazify with the same zeal as the Soviets, French, or Americans.&nbsp; So I could imagine that an innocuous balcony railing lucky enough to survive Allied bombing might not be destroyed.&nbsp; In the late 1940s the British were bankrupt.&nbsp; Rebuilding buildings that had been destroyed cost enough.&nbsp; If a building was still usable, it might have been left well enough alone, particularly if it wasn&#039;t a government building or the home of a major political or military figure.</p><p><br /></p><p>I saw an article in the <i>Washington Post</i> a while back about the descendants of the brother of Alois Hitler (Adolf&#039;s father).&nbsp; Apparently, they were so ashamed at what their first cousin Adolf had done that they swore never to have children of their own so that the Hitler name (at least one close to Adolf) should perish from the earth.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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