In 2009, Culture Capital Linz Deals With Its Dark Past

Vienna/Linz, Austria  - Some European Capitals of Culture are luckier than others.

While this year Liverpool banked on the Beatles, the Austrian town of Linz has to grapple with its connection to Adolf Hitler in 2009.

But besides using the opportunity to deal with the fact that Hitler planned to make Linz a major cultural centre of the Third Reich, the steel town along the Danube river will offer a host of quirky cultural projects geared towards a wide public rather than a select few.