Austria opens police station at Hitler's birthplace to shed Nazi associations

Austrian authorities have inaugurated a police station at the building in Braunau am Inn where Adolf Hitler was born in 1889. The move follows years of debate over how to handle the 17th-century former inn and neutralize its symbolic significance to neo-Nazis. Officials hope that repurposing the site as a law enforcement facility will effectively distance it from its dark historical associations. The building had long attracted unwanted attention as a pilgrimage site for far-right groups, prompting the government to seek a definitive solution.