Austrian police station opens at Hitler's birthplace in bid to rid site of Nazi link
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Austria has opened a police station in the house where Adolf Hitler was born, in the town of Braunau am Inn.
It follows years of controversy about what to do with the 17th-Century former inn, where Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was born in April 1889.
The building has now been substantially refurbished and its facade changed, but it has been a huge headache for Austrian authorities, who want to prevent it from becoming a site of neo-Nazi pilgrimage.
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Austria has opened a police station in the house where Adolf Hitler was born, in the town of Braunau am Inn.
It follows years of controversy about what to do with the 17th-Century former inn, where Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was born in April 1889.
The building has now been substantially refurbished and its facade changed, but it has been a huge headache for Austrian authorities, who want to prevent it from becoming a site of neo-Nazi pilgrimage.