Hitler's damned birthplace

A police station will be formed from the building by the end of the works.

Managing the traces of a despicable historical past is a difficult task for authorities and citizens, even when it comes to places where atrocities were not committed but are linked to their author or inducer. This is the case of the Austrian town of Braunau am Inn, near the border with Germany, where Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889. Continue reading...