In an effort to block neo-Nazi tourism, the birthplace of Adolf Hitler on April 20th in 1889 in Braunau am Inn, Austria, has been turned into a police station.
This ended years of controversy over what to do with the site. The owner had refused to sell the house, but a court ruled that the government had the right to expropriate it. There was some talk of demolishing it, but this never came to fruition. For years, it had housed charity organizations. However, it had stood empty since 2011.
There is a stone memorial just outside of the building in Braunau am Inn, which borders Germany. it bears the inscription:
“For freedom, democracy and liberty. Never again fascism. Millions of dead remind us.”
Below are the links which I used in writing this blog entry, and from which I obtained the specific inscription which you can see above:
Adolf Hitler’s birthplace in Austria reopens as a police station to deter Nazi pilgrimages by Philipp Jenne, July 22, 2026:
https://apnews.com/article/austria-hitler-house-birthplace-police-station-6cf6c547ffc21ddd84ee57d9b3407b18
Adolf Hitler's birthplace in Austria becomes a police station | AP News
Police station opens at Hitler's birthplace in bid to rid site of Nazi link by Bethany Bell, July 22, 2026:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy5d36e752yo
Austrian police station opens at Hitler's birthplace in bid to rid site of Nazi link
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