Austria turns Adolf Hitler’s birthplace into police station

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Austria has converted the building where Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn into a police station. The Austrian government purchased the property in 2017 and announced renovation plans in 2019, with the remodeling costing approximately 20 million euros. The aim of this transformation, according to Austrian politicians, is to prevent neo-Nazis from visiting the site as a place of pilgrimage and to strip the building of its association with Hitler. The new police station will house district and local officers. The mayor of Braunau am Inn stated that the change demonstrates the community confronting its history and assuming responsibility.

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Stephan Mlczoch said the aim was 'to prevent any association with Adolf Hitler, so as to strip it of that mystique'.

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Mayor Johannes Waidbacher stated the transformation shows the community is 'confronting its history, that it is assuming responsibility'.

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The renovation of the building cost approximately 20 million euros ($22.8 million).

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The Austrian government hopes this change will prevent neo-Nazis from visiting the building as a place of pilgrimage.

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Adolf Hitler's birthplace in Braunau am Inn, Austria, has been converted into a police station.

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Austrian politicians hope the change will prevent Nazis" class="entity-link entity-topic" data-entity-id="169422" data-entity-type="topic">neo-Nazis from visiting the building as a place of pilgrimage.The building in which Adolf Hitler was born near the Austrian border with Germany has been converted into a police station.The Austrian government opened the new police station in the town of Braunau am Inn on Wednesday in the hope that the change will prevent Nazis" class="entity-link entity-topic" data-entity-id="169422" data-entity-type="topic">neo-Nazis from visiting the building as a place of pilgrimage.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3‘Mein Kampf’ on sale again in Germanylist 2 of 3In the bowels of Berlin’s pastlist 3 of 3House Hitler was born in to become a police stationend of listThe government bought the terraced house in 2017, and the plans to remodel it were announced in 2019. The renovation cost about 20 million euros ($22.8m).Officers from the district and local police will be based in the building.In a ceremony to mark the opening, Johannes Waidbacher, mayor of the town, said he hoped the transformation would show that the local community is “confronting its history, that it is assuming responsibility”.“I believe that the opening of the police station today brings clarity to the discussion, perhaps also a bit of calm for the people of Braunau,” Waidbacher said in a ceremony also attended by Interior Minister Gerhard Karner.About 100 people watched an orchestra play in the house’s courtyard, including some 30 officers in uniform, though few locals made the trip, the AFP news agency reported.The head of the Austrian Ministry of the Interior’s ‌history department, Stephan Mlczoch, told reporters on a tour of the building: “The aim was to prevent any association with Adolf Hitler, so as to strip it of that mystique.”That mystique was encouraged by the Nazis’ cult of personality around Hitler, under whose rule the “Fuehrer birth house” was an art museum.

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