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The Economic Times
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Hitler's birthplace begins new life as a police station

BRAUNAU AM INN, Austria: The building Adolf Hitler was born in near the Austrian border with Germany officially begins ​a new life as a police station on ​Wednesday, a conversion Austria's government hopes will prevent it serving as a place of pilgrimage for ​neo-Nazis.

After years of debate about the large, traditional terraced house in the town of Braunau am Inn, which was in private ownership and had housed a charity for handicapped people, Austria made a compulsory purchase in 2017 and announced in 2019 it would be remodelled and turned into a police station.

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