Controversy has surrounded the renovation of the building in Braunau, Austria to this day. The debate points to something larger: the continued need to remember history and confront the Nazi past.

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

1889 wird der spätere Diktator Adolf Hitler im österreichischen Braunau am Inn geboren. Das Gebäude wurde immer wieder von Neonazis aufgesucht. Ein Umbau soll das nun verhindern.

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