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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Philipp Jenne

Adolf Hitler’s birthplace in Austria reopens as a police station to deter Nazi pilgrimages

Austria Hitler Birth House - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

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.

A memorial stone is to remain in place outside the house in Braunau am Inn near the German border with the inscription, “For freedom, democracy and liberty. Never again fascism. Millions of dead remind us.”

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