After years of debate, Austria made a compulsory purchase in 2017 and announced in 2019 that it would be remodeled and turned into a police station.

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

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