The Austrian government insisted that the permanent police presence would "clearly show" that no commemoration of Nazism would be acceptable and would "neutralise" the site.

Building where Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 has become police station after multi-million transformation, in Braunau am Inn on Austria’s border with Germany | World News

Wenn Neonazis nun zu Hitlers Geburtshaus pilgern, wartet bereits die Polizei. Nach langem Ringen hat Österreich eine Nutzung für das Haus in Braunau gefunden.

The aim was to ‘prevent any association’ with the dictator