Adolf Hitler’s birthplace in Austria reopens as a police station to deter Nazi pilgrimages
The government says a permanent police presence will deter extremist visits and signal democracy, after a 20 million euro refurbishment.
- Austria officially opened a new police station on Wednesday in Adolf Hitler's former home in Braunau am Inn, hoping the conversion will deter neo-Nazis from visiting the dictator's birthplace.
- Following a lengthy legal battle with former owner Gerlinde Pommer, Austria seized the property in 2017 and spent 20 million euros renovating the structure to obscure its historical association with the Nazi dictator.
- Architects whitewashed the building's ochre-yellow facade and replaced arched windows with simple rectangular shapes, while a memorial stone from the Mauthausen concentration camp remains on the pavement bearing the inscription "Never again fascism."
- Interior Minister Gerhard Karner said Austria commits to "deal with" the site's "terrible heritage," yet critics like Robert Eiter of the Mauthausen Committee argue the move attempts to "forget as soon as possible."
- Mayor Johannes Waidbacher expressed uncertainty about whether the strategy will deter extremists, saying "I think it isn't a bad approach but whether it works as we all hope and expect, we'll have to wait and see.
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Austria took a new step in its attempt to erase any link of exaltation to Nazism by inaugurating a police station in the house where Adolf Hitler was born, after decades of intense debate. The house, located in the town of Braunau am Inn, was the place where the dictator was born in April of... Continue reading “" Never again to fascism”: They convert the house where Hitler was born into a barracks to avoid apology for Nazism” The post “Never ag…
The Austrian government hopes to prevent a neo-Nazi "pilgrimage" to Hitler's birthplace: it has transformed the house into a police station. Even the construction debris has been destroyed to avoid any "reminders."
Huset i Braunau am Inn har i årevis tiltrukket nynazister. Nu prøver Østrig at days symbolic powers ud af bygningen ved at gøre den til polititisation.
In recent years, skinheads have laid roses and wreaths in front of the building to mark the Nazi leader's birthday. Where is the "Eagle's Nest"? The villa given to Hitler that is now a tourist attraction. Austria has opened a police station at Adolf Hitler's birthplace with the aim of "neutralizing" his toxic legacy, after years of debate about how to prevent neo-Nazis from visiting it as a place of pilgrimage. Hitler was born on April 20, 1889…
After years of back and forth, it now has, so to speak, a door and a castle: that building in Braunau, Upper Austria, in which Adolf Hitler was once born. It now acts as a police center.
Azt remélik, így kevesebb neonaci fog majd a helyszinre zarándokolni.
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