A statue of an antisemitic politician who is said to have inspired Adolf Hitler is to be tilted 3.5 degrees to the right. The monument to Karl Lueger, situated in Dr. Karl Lueger Platz in the ...

The city of Vienna will tilt the statue of a former mayor known for being antisemitic 3.5 degrees to the right in order to shift the viewer’s “perspective on it,” a move that some Jewish ...

The municipality plans to clean the statue on the Austrian capital’s central Ringstrasse boulevard this week. Lueger served as mayor of Vienna for 13 years until his death in 1910 at the age of 65.

Vienna finds off-kilter solution to controversy over statue of antisemitic mayor Lianne Kolirin and Stephanie Halasz , CNN 4 minute read ...

A fence in Vienna surrounds the statue of Karl Lueger, the antisemitic former mayor of the Austrian capital, Oct. 6, 2020. (Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty Images) Advertisement.

Lianne Kolirin and Stephanie Halasz, CNN (CNN) — A statue of an antisemitic politician who is said to have inspired Adolf Hitler is to be tilted 3.5 degrees to the right. The monument to Karl ...

The city’s Twitter account announced the decision last Wednesday and included an image of what the tilted statue will look like. Karl Lueger served as mayor of Vienna for 13 years until his death in ...

Lianne Kolirin and Stephanie Halasz, CNN (CNN) — A statue of an antisemitic politician who is said to have inspired Adolf Hitler is to be tilted 3.5 degrees to the right. The monument to Karl ...