AFP22 Jul, 2026 07:13 PM4 mins to readThe unassuming home in Braunau, Austria, which was the birthplace of Adolf Hitler. In front of the building is a stone, from the Mauthausen concentration camp, with the inscription: "For peace, freedom and democracy. Never again fascism. Millions of dead warn us." Photo / Kerstin Joensson, AFPAustria opened a new police station in Adolf Hitler’s former house in the hope of deterring today’s ascendant far-right extremists from making the pilgrimage to the Nazi dictator’s birthplace.
In a ceremony to mark the opening, Johannes Waidbacher, Mayor of the small town of Braunau-am-Inn, said he hoped the transformation
