Hitler's birthplace begins new life as a police station
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The building where Adolf Hitler was born has been converted into a police station. Austria's government hopes it will prevent it from serving as a place of pilgrimage for neo-Nazis.
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Austria will formally open a new police station on Wednesday in Adolf Hitler's former house, in the hope of deterring today's ascendant far-right extremists from making the pilgrimage to the Nazi dictator's birthplace.
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.
The house where Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 is now a police station. Austrian authorities have long sought to prevent it becoming a neo-Nazi pilgrimage site.
BRAUNAU AM INN, Austria (AP) — Adolf Hitler’s birthplace in Austria was officially inaugurated as a police station on Wednesday in an effort to destroy the building’s appeal as a site of pilgrimage for people who glorify the Nazi dictator.
Vienna says it is 'facing up' to its 'terrible heritage'; 'Never again fascism. Millions of dead remind us,' reads inscription outside Nazi leader's family home in Braunau am Inn
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…
BRAUNAU AM INN, Austria (AP) — Adolf Hitler’s birthplace in Austria was officially inaugurated as a police station on Wednesday in an effort to destroy the building’s appeal as a site of pilgrimage for people who glorify the Nazi dictator.
Austria has opened a police station inside the house where Adolf Hitler was born, transforming the property in an effort to prevent it from becoming a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis. The building’s conversion comes as Jewish communities across Europe continue to report high levels of antisemitism and…
The building where Adolf Hitler was born has been converted into a police station. Austria's government hopes it will prevent it from serving as a place of pilgrimage for neo-Nazis.
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