Work has started on turning a house in Austria where Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 into a police station, a project meant to make it unattractive as a site of pilgrimage for people who glorify the Nazi dictator.
The decision on the future of the building in Braunau am Inn, a town on Austria’s border with Germany, was made in late 2019.
Plans call for a police station, the district police headquarters and a security academy branch where police officers will get human rights training.
Work has started on turning a house in Austria where Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 into a police station, a project meant to make it unattractive as a site of pilgrimage for people who glorify the Nazi dictator.
The decision on the future of the building in Braunau am Inn, a town on Austria’s border with Germany, was made in late 2019.
Plans call for a police station, the district police headquarters and a security academy branch where police officers will get human rights training.
The police are expected to occupy the premises in early 2026.
A years-long back-and-forth over the ownership of the house preceded the overhaul project.
The question was resolved in 2017 when Austria’s highest court ruled that the government was within its rights to expropriate the building after its owner refused to sell it.
Read the article in The West Australian (AP).