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Kate Connolly in Berlin

Austria to use Hitler’s birthplace for police human rights training

Hitler's former home in Austria
In a survey, 53% of those questioned said they would prefer it to become a centre for anti-fascism and tolerance. Photograph: Manfred Fesl/AFP/Getty Images

Austria has announced it will use the house where Adolf Hitler was born to provide human rights training to police officers, in what authorities hope will be the final chapter in a lengthy saga over what to do with the building.

The elegant 17th-century house in Braunau am Inn, near the German border, was bought by the government in 2016 under a compulsory purchase order after a long-running legal battle.

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