The building where Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn is now a police station. Austria's government hopes this conversion will deter neo-Nazi pilgrimages to the site. The house, previously privately owned, was compulsorily purchased by the Austrian government in 2017. Officials aim to strip the building of its historical mystique and prevent any association with Hitler.

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