Hitler's birthplace gets makeover as police station
STORY: Adolf Hitler's birthplace is being turned into a police station
Location: Braunau, Austria
The project is meant to prevent the house from becoming a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis
Hitler’s family lived here for three years around his birth on April 20, 1889
The Austrian government seized the building in 2016
and after years of debate decided to turn it into a police station with a human rights training center
But there has been criticism of the plan
(Erich Marschall, Opponent to the project)
"The entire discussion about this use has been going on for four to five years, but never with the involvement of the people of Braunau. It has only ever been in Vienna, in the ministries, and not a single event, not an information evening on this topic in Braunau, so the people of Braunau have not been invited."
