The building where Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was born in 1889, located near the border between Austria and Germany, has become a police station. Through this conversion, Austrian authorities aim to prevent the site from being exploited as a destination for neo-Nazi worship.

The building has been the focus of a long debate in Austria over how to handle sites linked to the Nazi era, for fear that it could become a shrine for neo-Nazis.

Sources stated that Hitler's family lived in the house for only a few weeks after his birth, then left it.

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Adolf Hitler

This step comes after years of debate over the fate of the house, which has become a symbol of a dark era in European history. Austria seeks to block any attempts to glorify Nazism by transforming sites linked to Hitler into government institutions. The presence of the police station is expected to prevent the building from becoming a destination for tourists sympathetic to Nazi ideology.