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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Deborah Cole in Berlin

Austria opens police station at Hitler birthplace to deter neo-Nazi tourists

Police officers in navy uniforms stand in a courtyard in front of white buildings with red-tiled roofs
Police officers, journalists and guests attend an inauguration ceremony for a new police unit at the birthplace of Adolf Hitler. Photograph: Manfred Fesl/APA/AFP/Getty Images

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 a pilgrimage site.

Hitler was born on 20 April 1889 in a rented flat in the centre of Braunau am Inn and spent the first weeks of his life there.

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