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Hitler's Austrian birthplace to become a police station

Adolf Hitler's house on Braunau-am-Inn had become a meeting-place for neo-Nazis.

BRAUNAU AM INN (AUSTRIA) - Austria will formally open a new police station on Wednesday in Adolf Hitler's former house, in the hope of deterring present day ascendant far-right extremists from making the pilgrimage to the Nazi dictator's birthplace.

The authorities hope that its transformation will bring to an end a long and delicate debate over what to do with the site, in a country often criticised for not taking full responsibility for its role in the Holocaust.

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