Austria opened Adolf Hitler’s birthplace as a police station Wednesday, aiming to deter neo-Nazi pilgrimage to the infamous site.
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."
Hitler was born in the building on April 20, 1889. His family moved to another residence in Braunau am Inn after only a few months, before settling temporarily in Passau in southern Germany.
Fueled by racial fanaticism, Hitler's Nazi regime killed approximately 6 million Jews and other minorities and groups during the Holocaust.
The dictator unleashed World War II, in which at least 60 million people died. He committed suicide in April 1945, shortly before the end of the war.
