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Hitler’s birth house will become a police station to keep neo-Nazis away
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Austria has started work to turn the yellow-brick house where Adolf Hitler was born into a police station, in a long-running attempt to prevent the building from becoming a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis.
After decades of back and forth on the ownership and fate of the dictator’s birthplace in Braunau am Inn, near Austria’s border with Germany, the Austrian government expropriated the building in 2017.
The Ministry of the Interior then announced plans to turn it into a law enforcement hub, including a human rights training center for police officers.
When the government announced plans for the remodel in 2019, Austria’s then-interior minister, Wolfgang Peschorn, said the decision “should send an unmistakable signal that the role of this building as a memorial to the Nazis has been permanently revoked.”
Erich Marschall, who took part in an initiative opposing the police station plan, told Reuters that authorities should have consulted more with Braunau residents about the property’s future use.
Filmmaker Günter Schwaiger, who has released a documentary about Hitler’s birthplace, told Deutsche Welle that “a conversion to a police station is completely the wrong signal,” describing it as “a slap in the face of the victims.”
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