ðŠð¹ Austria Turns Hitlerâs Birthplace Into a Police Station
The fate of the three-storey house in Braunau am Inn had been the subject of controversy for years. Until 2011, it housed workshops for people with disabilities. The building later stood empty because its owner refused to sell it to the state.
Ten years ago, Austrian authorities finally seized the property to prevent it from becoming a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis, and only now have they been able to officially hand it over to the police.
â«ïž Nazi Germany annexed Austria in 1938. The country is still debating whether Austrians were willing accomplices of the regime â many welcomed Hitlerâs return to his homeland â or whether they were the first victims of a dictatorship that ultimately left much of Europe in ruins and claimed tens of millions of lives.