Johan Phillip Palm

Braunau am Inn, Upper Austria.

This small town of about 18,000 inhabitants has a varied, sometimes turbulent, history.

Let me just go back to the early 19^th Century:

For some short time in 1805, the French Warmonger, Napoleon Bonaparte lived in Braunau, in the house, Stadtplatz 34.

The Nürnberg Book Publisher, Johan Phillip Palm, printed and marketed a booklet, dealing with Germany's occupation by Napoleon, called “Germany in its deep Humiliation”.

Since he steadfastly refused to divulge the name of the author, he was executed by firing squad, on the order of Napoleon, on the 26^th August 1806, just outside the Braunau city walls.

The building in which he was incarcerated, as well as the location of his execution are kept as a place of remembrance, warning against the loss of “Freedom of the Press.”

 

Poststallgasse 6 is the building in which J.P. Palm was kept as  prisoner

until his execution on 26th August 1806, on the order of Napoleon.

Commemorative plaque 

reminding of this crime and surreptitiously warning

 of the loss of Freedom of the Press.