Police station opens at Hitler's birthplace in bid to rid site of Nazi link

The opening follows years of controversy about what to do with the 17th-Century former inn, where the Nazi dictator was born.

Hitler’s Birth Place in Austria Is Now a Police Station

The government repurposed the 17th century building in hopes of preventing the site from becoming an attraction for Nazi sympathizers.

By Claire Moses

Austria opens police station at Hitler birthplace to deter neo-Nazi tourists

Police unit in Braunau am Inn will tackle narcotics trafficking and help prevent people visiting it as pilgrimage site Austria has opened a police station in the birthplace of Adolf Hitler in an attempt to “neutralise” its toxic legacy, after years of debate over how to stop neo-Nazis visiting it as a pilgrimage site. Hitler was born on 20 April 1889 in a rented flat of the building in the town centre of Braunau am Inn and spent the first weeks of his life there. Continue reading...

By Deborah Cole in Berlin

Austria turns Adolf Hitler’s birthplace into police station

Austrian politicians hope the change will prevent neo-Nazis from visiting the building as a place of pilgrimage.

Police station opens in Hitler's birth house

Controversy has surrounded the renovation of the building in Braunau, Austria to this day. The debate points to something larger: the continued need to remember history and confront the Nazi past.

House where Hitler was born becomes police station to deter neo-Nazi visitors

The aim was to ‘prevent any association’ with the dictator

By Francois Murphy

Hitler’s birthplace in Austria opens as police station in bid to deter neo-Nazis

The opening comes after years of public discussions around how to best prevent Nazi pilgrimages to the site

By Ellie Hutchings

‘Place of democracy’: Hitler’s birthplace converted into police station in Austria

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By TOI World Desk

Hitler's birthplace in Austria begins new life as a police station

The traditional terraced house in the town of Braunau am Inn, was in private ownership and had housed a charity for handicapped people.

Hitler's Austrian birthplace transformed into police station

Austria opened a new police station in Adolf Hitler’s former house on Wednesday, in the hope of deterring today’s ascendant far-right extremists from making the pilgrimage to the Nazi dictator’s birthplace. In a ceremony to mark the opening, Johannes Waidbacher, mayor of the small town of Braunau-am-Inn, said he hoped the transformation would show that the local community is “confronting its history, that it is assuming responsibility”. The decision to turn the house into a police station fol...

By none@none.com (AFP)

Hitler's birthplace begins new life as a police station

After years of debate, Austria made a compulsory purchase in 2017 and announced in 2019 that it would be remodeled and turned into a police station.

Hitler's Birth House Converted To Police Station To Deter Neo-Nazi Pilgrimage

"The aim was to prevent any association with Adolf Hitler, so as to strip it of that mystique," the head of the Austrian interior ministry's history department, Stephan Mlczoch, told reporters on a tour of the building.

Hitler's birthplace begins new life as a police station

Austria's government hopes that the conversion will prevent it ‌from serving as a place of pilgrimage for neo-Nazis

By Reuters

Austria turns Hitler birthplace into police station to deter neo-Nazis

Austria opened Adolf Hitler’s birthplace as a police station Wednesday, aiming to deter neo-Nazi pilgrimage to the infamous site. A memorial stone is to remain in place outside th...

Adolf Hitler’s birthplace transformed into police station

Austria opened a new police station in Adolf Hitler's former house on Wednesday, in the hope of deterring today's ascendant far-right extremists from making the pilgrimage to the Nazi dictator's birthplace. The post Adolf Hitler’s birthplace transformed into police station appeared first on Vanguard News.

By Henry Oduah

Police station opens at Hitler’s birthplace in bid to rid site of Nazi link

Austria has opened a police station in the house where Adolf Hitler was born in the town of Braunau am Inn.

By Emmanuel Tetteh